My dh built me an incubator made from a cooler, the big blue and white ones they sell at wally mart. well he was trying to surprise me for xmas and he had eggs incubating in it when he brought it up xmas day. the temp was a steady 99.5 and the humidity was pretty steady to but the hatch went really wrong and all embryos died. So the incubator sat fora few weeks and now we bought 2 new thermometer/hydrometers and I got one on each end of the cooler on the inside where the eggs will be, one on the upper left side and one of the bottom right side.
but the temperature difference between the 2 is 9 degrees. its driving me nuts I have been tweaking it all darn day and I cannot get it to work. I redirected the computer fan more towards the light bulb thinking maybe there isn't enough air movement in there. and it still hasn't helped. Dh is thinking we might need a stronger fan to move the heat around.
The light bulb and thermostat at on the right hand side and thus that thermometer is reading near 105 with low humidity and the left hand side is reading at 98.6 with 20% humidity. I have tried just about everything I can think of and I need help.
Is it possible my fan is not strong enough?? I got eggs I would really really like to hatch, I can get more, not from my girls since they are not really laying but from the farm down the street, but I wanted these to go in tomorrow, I am so green at incubating, and I have read so many threads I am about as confused as one person can get.
please advice me,
Ema
but the temperature difference between the 2 is 9 degrees. its driving me nuts I have been tweaking it all darn day and I cannot get it to work. I redirected the computer fan more towards the light bulb thinking maybe there isn't enough air movement in there. and it still hasn't helped. Dh is thinking we might need a stronger fan to move the heat around.
The light bulb and thermostat at on the right hand side and thus that thermometer is reading near 105 with low humidity and the left hand side is reading at 98.6 with 20% humidity. I have tried just about everything I can think of and I need help.
Is it possible my fan is not strong enough?? I got eggs I would really really like to hatch, I can get more, not from my girls since they are not really laying but from the farm down the street, but I wanted these to go in tomorrow, I am so green at incubating, and I have read so many threads I am about as confused as one person can get.
please advice me,
Ema