Jan./Feb. 2014 hatch a long

[Renee97038]

I use a similar setup as your stock tank except mine is galvanized. We knew we had cold, Oregon winter weather so my husband cut out 2 pieces of plywood the shape of both ends of the stock tank. Then he nailed a lip onto the outside of the plywood making a lid. These 2 pieces are cut so that the heat lamp hangs down in between the plywood leaving an opening in the top big enough just for the heat lamp. I will post a pic when I get home tonight. I don't think a wire top will keep enough heat in for a 32 degree night.

 

[Farmer Viola]

I have three hygrometers in. All calibrated with in a few degrees and had read the same
sitting on the counter before I calibrated. This morning reading reading 10, 25 and 40...
Moved them around and still came up with funky readings....................
I am going to try to get into town to purchase a scale that will read grams and hope this will help
with this hatch.............
I am sure this has been my problem hatching the past few times.............
Maybe I should buy one of he probe hygrometers?????????

oh man thats rough.. huge difference! are they digital or analog hygrometers? sometimes you have to wait some period of time, hours even, for them to even out and show the true temperature.

I am having my own mini freak out over here.. day 4 so seems that I'm due for some worrying...

I have this really cool laser pointer thermometer. My hubby bought it for me only $20. I can point it at the eggs and it tells me their temperature on a red laser dot, I really like it for when I slowly increase their temperatures before setting. I can make sure the egg itself is close to 90 degrees before putting it in.. anyway..

I am using this laser and it's telling me that my eggs are 102 when my thermometer in the bator reads 100.1.
The laser has also said the eggs are 98F when the bator reads 99.8 which is practically the same thing as 100.1, yet 4 degrees difference according to my laser pointer. I am just going batty trying to figure out which device is reading wrong!!! WTB Broody Hen!!!

 

[fosterson]

oh man thats rough.. huge difference! are they digital or analog hygrometers? sometimes you have to wait some period of time, hours even, for them to even out and show the true temperature.

I am having my own mini freak out over here.. day 4 so seems that I'm due for some worrying...

I have this really cool laser pointer thermometer. My hubby bought it for me only $20. I can point it at the eggs and it tells me their temperature on a red laser dot, I really like it for when I slowly increase their temperatures before setting. I can make sure the egg itself is close to 90 degrees before putting it in.. anyway..

I am using this laser and it's telling me that my eggs are 102 when my thermometer in the bator reads 100.1.
The laser has also said the eggs are 98F when the bator reads 99.8 which is practically the same thing as 100.1, yet 4 degrees difference according to my laser pointer. I am just going batty trying to figure out which device is reading wrong!!! WTB Broody Hen!!!

If it's any consolation, those laser pointer readers usually have a +/- 2 degree range of error. They're not THAT accurate.

 

[Farmer Viola]

If it's any consolation, those laser pointer readers usually have a +/- 2 degree range of error. They're not THAT accurate.

really! well poop I might as well throw it away then

thank you

 

[dfreas]

I have this really cool laser pointer thermometer. My hubby bought it for me only $20. I can point it at the eggs and it tells me their temperature on a red laser dot, I really like it for when I slowly increase their temperatures before setting. I can make sure the egg itself is close to 90 degrees before putting it in.. anyway..

I am using this laser and it's telling me that my eggs are 102 when my thermometer in the bator reads 100.1.
The laser has also said the eggs are 98F when the bator reads 99.8 which is practically the same thing as 100.1, yet 4 degrees difference according to my laser pointer. I am just going batty trying to figure out which device is reading wrong!!! WTB Broody Hen!!!

If you are pointing it through the window of your incubator it may be reading the temp of the window, even though the dot is hitting the egg. Since heat rises the window will be a bit hotter than the egg.

 

[Farmer Viola]

I usually open the incubator a crack and point it at the egg itself, not through the window. I point it at the top of the egg

I started doing it because I suspect hot and cold spots in my incubator, particularly near the motor for the turner is much warmer than the opposite corner...
I think I need to just stop obsessing over it and walk away!

 

[dfreas]

I use a similar setup as your stock tank except mine is galvanized.  We knew we had cold, Oregon winter weather so my husband cut out 2 pieces of plywood the shape of both ends of the stock tank.  Then he nailed a lip onto the outside of the plywood making a lid.  These 2 pieces are cut so that the heat lamp hangs down in between the plywood leaving an opening in the top big enough just for the heat lamp.  I will post a pic when I get home tonight.  I don't think a wire top will keep enough heat in for a 32 degree night.  

I'd love to see a pic of this! I have plenty of scrap wood around so I could do something like that. I'd be worried about it getting too hot during the day though. Maybe if I got a thermostat and hooked the heat lamp up through that.

 

[rayray983]

Just a update have 4 hatched and 5 external pips of the 10 original eggs I started wed the other 36 should start

 

[Gen9]

We hear them chirping, my little assistant is feeding broody & giving her water in hopes to catch a glimpse of some fuzzy butts!

 

[chickydee64]

We hear them chirping, my little assistant is feeding broody & giving her water in hopes to catch a glimpse of some fuzzy butts!

OHHHHH, I want an assistant like that...............

What a cutie and I;\'ll bet a really big help.
My boy is 50.........................

and just is not interested in chickens anymore.