Is this alright?

[prancie]

I am waiting on my eggs to come today and my incubator (a hovabator still-air) is 102 degrees and 48% humidity as I write this. Is this alright?

 

[Mahonri]

Temp is too high. Needs to be 99.5 to 100.

Have you verified this with more than one thermometer?

 

[embkm]

The temp should be ok for a still air. THey are supposed to be at 101- 102.

 

[prancie]

i keep reading different things about temp, that still-air bators need to be a little hotter, everyone seems to say something different about humidity.

I am trying to bring the temp down now. More opinions are welcome.

 

[prancie]

the instructions say to get it to 100 degrees....

it's a hova-bator 1602N

 

[jvls1942]

I shoot for 99.5F to 100F

your hum% is not that bad ..

at hatching time you might want to raise it to about 60% - 65%

after you add the eggs, your temps and hum% are going to do strange things.. just let them be and do not adjust anything.. It may take a couple of days to settle down..

 

[prancie]

ok, i have it holding at 100 degrees and 49% humidity.

 

[kcardella]

I also have a still-air LG, and the 102 temps scare me. I read on another site that only go by the 102 at the top of the eggs, but I am still not sure. I ran mine at 101-102 (grate level) in my first hatch, and none hatched. I am trying a second time, and running it 99-100 at grate level.

I have the accurite digital that reads temps and humidity, and I cannot set it at the top of the eggs, so I am going by the grate-level temp.

We'll see how it goes!

 

[dancingbear]

Quote:
In a still air incubator, there are layers of air at different temps. The bottom, on the wire, is cooler than at the top of the eggs. You want the center of the egg at 100F. The top may be 102F, and the bottom 98F. That way, when eggs are turned, the temp gets distributed. You get an average of 100F. If you had 102F at the bottom, on the wire, your egg tops may be 106F.

So where (what level) you check the temp is very important. If you add a fan kit, that eliminates the different layers having different temps, so then you want 100F, period.

Since you are going by the temp at the bottom, on the wire, you may want to try for 98-99F. Good luck. Can you put something egg-height in the 'bater to set your thermometer (or probe) on, to see what your egg top temp is? That would be better than guesstimating it, if you can do that. You could cut a small section out of an egg carton, to set it on, if you have room. Some people place a thin piece of cardboard or plastic strip across the eggs, and set the therm on that for a while, to check temp.