KDOGG331’s Hatch Thread!!!

[Kiki]

First before you go screw with your fish put all three thermometers in the same spot and leave them for 15 minutes.

Go do this now while I go check my blood pressure.

 

[Skippersnh]

lol @Kiki

 

[Kiki]

I'm ok. Phew.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I thought you understood that it is the most important thing to have at least one calibrated thermometer in your incubator.

I could have sworn I've been saying this for a year already.

Well I did but then I think I forgot/trusted these the also couldn’t find one. Probably should have done this before I got them.

I would say
because we don't actually know if it is indeed too hot in that spot because your thermometer is not calibrated.

Hmm that makes sense.

They seem to be agreeing now that they’re in the same spot.

First before you go screw with your fish put all three thermometers in the same spot and leave them for 15 minutes.

Done.

Go do this now while I go check my blood pressure.

lol @Kiki

X2

I'm ok. Phew.View attachment 1961700

You actually did it!?

 

[ShrekDawg]

The turner turned while I was doing this. It did seem to turn them but we’ll see if the x shows up or if it just barely rolls them.

Before.

After. And where I put the thermometers. I’ll go check in a sec.

 

[Kiki]

95 is too cold.
Leave them all three in the same spot for 10 or 15 more minutes then tell me again what it's reading in that spot.

I find that digital thermometers take a good 5 or 10 or 15 minutes sometimes before they read correctly for that spot.

They are not immediate.

 

[Kiki]

I think your best chance at this point is to move all of the eggs as close as possible together in a spot of the incubator where all three thermometers are reading the same temperature.


But not where they are reading 101 or 95. This is a huge difference, to me. Six degrees.

I'm even more convinced now that the eggs that have quit we're probably in too hot of a spot.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Okay I think I’m not going to get anymore eggs after these ones until I test my incubator more. Which I should have done to begin with.

Or maybe just no more eggs ever haha

Stupid question but would it be a good idea to test it with some of my own eggs? Just to see how it acts full or half full or whatever? I don’t have a rooster so none of mine would be fertile but just so I could have something to put in there and test how it acts with real eggs.

Also would I have to throw them away or could I cook them them for the chickens after? Hate to waste a dozen or two dozen eggs haha

Maybe I’ll just buy cheap Walmart eggs and keep my good eggs

 

[Skippersnh]

no

 

[ShrekDawg]

95 is too cold.
Leave them all three in the same spot for 10 or 15 more minutes then tell me again what it's reading in that spot.

I find that digital thermometers take a good 5 or 10 or 15 minutes sometimes before they read correctly for that spot.

They are not immediate.

I think your best chance at this point is to move all of the eggs as close as possible together in a spot of the incubator where all three thermometers are reading the same temperature.


But not where they are reading 101 or 95. This is a huge difference, to me. Six degrees.

I'm even more convinced now that the eggs that have quit we're probably in too hot of a spot.

Well it normally doesn’t read 95. It was only reading that cause I had just opened the incubator to move them. So it hadn’t heated up yet. I would have freaked if it was always like that haha it’s just cause I opened it. Normally the lowest it goes is 98. But the right side does seem to be consistently higher. 99, 100, 101, 102 a couple times.