Thanks for the link. I read in Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens that it was supposed to be 102. Maybe I need a better book on incubating.
Thank you. I guess it's a little late now to calibrate using the boiling point method since they're supposed to hatch today (but no signs of life yet.
I am a burd lover and a dog lover! Dogs are good friends, and burdz are - I can't even describe it; they're just BURD so they're awesome! I love them all!I thought you were a Burd luver?
Oh no!
(ROFL to your singing egg comment!!)
Ditto dat. I ran my still air at 102, top of egg, and ran my forced air 101........ Hatch went great in the forced air, and still working on actually cleaning (and repairing) the still air properly, so I'm not using it at the moment.
I thought you wanted to run 102 at top, so it would be 99.5 internal temp?
-Banti
So you keep it at 102? I should try both ways and see which one works better ......
AwwwwWindy has arrived and with that inet is annoyingly sporadic!!!!!
Thanks to chaos knowing when I set eggs, these all have been saved lol
Hatching now
No, not me! I will try a few the firs is : " the answer is always C!"- התשובה היא ג
In a multiple choice test, ( in Israel we call it "American test ") if you don't know the answer and you have to gess statistically you have 25% to be correct ( ususlly there is 4 option) but it isn't true, because if you look at a standart test the 3erd answe, C option, is much more than 25% of the correct answers it is usually 35%-40% so When they alwayes begin to ask a quastion, I always humoristicly say that "the answer is C !"
I alwayes try to give them the principals of helty life style so another one is when I saw them drinking Cola or some other soft drink l alwayes ask them "way you are drinking this Refined petroleum products" because the majority of synthetic food colors are refind from coal and petroleum!
And so on......
Alright. Since the eggs are lower now that they're not in the turner, can I keep the temp where they were before at 102? (Am I making any sense?)I've seen the 102 thing here many times. I just don't agree with it for a couple reasons. First of all, everything I've read prior to this thread said the top of the eggs should be 100.5. When I measure temp in a still air LG, there's about a 1F difference between the top and middle of the egg. Different incubators vary quite a bit. Eggs will hatch if kept between 99 and 101.
Once the temp gets above that I get scared. 96F for a brief period won't kill an embryo but 104.5 will. 102 is too close to that number for my comfort, primarily because I don't trust most thermometers. If one is off by 2F and they are holding eggs at 102 - that's enough to kill the embryos.
Ideal temperatures will vary slightly between strains of birds and between incubator design. Until one has done enough hatching with incubators that hold temperature well and with a single strain of a breed, I would rather err on the cooler side.
Here's the border collie I've been caring for while my friend is in the hospital. She's 14 and has been a working dog her whole life. Originally sheep and then geese for about the last 7 years. She just decided to retire this spring.
Here's my wife's Pomeranian.
That dog looks like it would be fun to dogsit! Border collies (most of them, lol) are very nice dogs.
