Is This Normal?

[Bigfishbobby]

This is the temperature read out from my Govee (best purchase ever btw, thank you). I have a Farm Innovators forced air unit. I felt it was running a little low temp wise so around midnight last night I bumped it up a half degree. These large temp swings worry me. Should I even be concerned?

 

[nuthatched]

Nope, it's only 3 degrees.

 

[Susan Skylark]

A degree and a half variation over or under 99.5 is perfectly normal, even within the same incubator let alone over time, you just don’t want it sitting indefinitely at 98 or 102. I rotate egg position within the incubator to minimize effects on hatching window, depending on design this could mean inner to outer ring, left to right or up to down, so eggs develop at roughly the same rate and hatch within 36 hours of one another. This idea that the climate (or in this case a micro climate) should always stay static is ridiculous, only a vacuum is constant and that means no life, no energy, no movement, no change. The goal is relative stability, mild fluctuations around an ideal number, and while temp spikes or crashes can affect hatch rates unless extreme they won’t completely destroy a hatch. Life and its intrinsic functions are a constant cycle and flux, whether that is temp, energy, oxygen, or any other variable, if it isn’t, the critter is dead.

 

[Bigfishbobby]

A degree and a half variation over or under 99.5 is perfectly normal, even within the same incubator let alone over time, you just don’t want it sitting indefinitely at 98 or 102. I rotate egg position within the incubator to minimize effects on hatching window, depending on design this could mean inner to outer ring, left to right or up to down, so eggs develop at roughly the same rate and hatch within 36 hours of one another. This idea that the climate (or in this case a micro climate) should always stay static is ridiculous, only a vacuum is constant and that means no life, no energy, no movement, no change. The goal is relative stability, mild fluctuations around an ideal number, and while temp spikes or crashes can affect hatch rates unless extreme they won’t completely destroy a hatch. Life and its intrinsic functions are a constant cycle and flux, whether that is temp, energy, oxygen, or any other variable, if it isn’t, the critter is dead.

Thank you. It sure seems to me that nature isn’t perfect either and it works out just fine. I will take your advice and move eggs around in the auto turner when we candle them around day 10.