Incubating Quail eggs: Variations in temperature

[Kiki]

Do you have extra calibrated thermometerS in your bator?
I have this Zilla thermostat, you can not trust it to be accurate enough.

 

[AlderCreekFarms]

I agree with the others that said temps on the low side of that are better than the high ones. It sounds like you're saying that the temps fluctuate to 102. I would think that's pushing it a little too much.

 

[007Sean]

Do you have extra calibrated thermometerS in your bator?
I have this Zilla thermostat, you can not trust it to be accurate enough.

Great, Kiki you have a Zilla thermostat, your a perfect choice to give @Sammbalina advice on how to set the thermostat up.

 

[Kiki]

This is what you are talking about correct?

 

[Kiki]

Great, Kiki you have a Zilla thermostat, your a perfect choice to give @Sammbalina advice on how to set the thermostat up.

It can work but first you must have at least 2 calibrated thermometers to figure out how off the Zilla is.

 

[007Sean]

It can work but first you must have at least 2 calibrated thermometers to figure out how off the Zilla is.

Yeah, even with a high dollar, high caliber incubators, you still want redundancy in thermometers and hygrometers that are reliable and accurate.

 

[Kiki]

A dimmer switch is going to be a pain in the butt. You will still have to babysit the bator non stop to watch the temps.
Go to Walmart...get a few cheap fish thermometers, they are only about 2 dollars.


What type of bulb are you using for the heat source?
Can you show us your current set up...a few photos.



Also, I DID not want shipped quail eggs to start with. I changed my mind and had some mailed across the country, litterally, and successfully hatched almost all of them. Quail eggs ship good.

 

[Kiki]

If you dont have calibrated thermometers your hatch will fail. (Most likely)

 

[Sammbalina]

I have 3 thermometers, one meat style, one glass, and one electric hygrometer combo. I calibrated the meat style, but I’ve never calibrated one before and don’t know if I did it right. I have no confidence in the "boiling point" side of calibration, as water will continue to boil at temperatures over the boiling point. I am going more by the glass one, because that technology has been around a lot longer, and all of them that I looked at in the store were all reading the same, so I figured they had to be pretty accurate. It’s a large easy read so I am able to read it through the window of the incubator without opening it. The meat style is reading about 6 degrees lower from the glass one after calibration, and the electric one is all over the place, although I think it only takes a reading once every minute or so. I got it because it tracks highs and lows, but it takes forever to drop an old temp reading.

For my heat source I am using a ceramic heat emitter because it doesn't put out any light. I was going to change to a basking light I have, but it was crazy bright.

 

[Sammbalina]

This is what you are talking about correct?
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Yeah, that’s what I have.