Kebonnixs Incubator & Govee

[Ratchnick]

Your salt test looks good. I write the number that it reads on the unit so i know how much to add or subtract when i read it. I have had hygrometers as far off as 15 points. The other cap has to much water.

 

[TeePants]

When I did the hygrometers for the hermit crab enclosure, they were ALL OVER the place, so I had just assumed it was the units themselves. I have to go out and pick up dog food today anyway (yes, I run a zoo here lol) so I can grab table salt and repeat.

It’s my understanding that even locally picked up non-shipped eggs need to rest for 12-24 hours right? I get our quail eggs tommorrow, so I can run another test with the hygrometers and once more with the meat therm temps.

So, testing results were:
Inkbird is off by 11, so add 11. (64 during salt test)
Govee was off by 13.2, so add 13.2. (61.8 during salt test)

Meat therm was 211 boiling, which is accurate for 130ft above sea level, but 32-33 in the ice water (entirely possible it just wasn’t freezing temp for whatever reason).

Current reads are:
INCUBATOR: 99.5 F, 21%
Inkbird: 98.7, 24 (added 11)
Govee: 98.2 F, 31.7 (added 13.2) ???
Meat Therm: 99 (it rounds up to nearest decimal pt)

They seem to agree that the temp is off on the incubator by at least 1 degree.

This is throwing me, the Govee is currently reading 18.5 humidity which more or less matches the incubator!

So, I guess the thing to do is restart the salt test with table salt. I’m real good at making simple things complicated.

 

[TeePants]

Redid the salt test with a glass pyrex dish w/ rubber lid, table salt in an actual bottle cap. Put both the Govee and the Inkbird in the same container. Started at around 10pm last night; checked it at 10am this morning.

Govee: 72.5%
Inkbird: 74%, I checked it again just now (I have to open the container to read it unfortunately) and now it says 76%??

I’m going to be picking up our eggs this afternoon, and I’m going to go put the Govee and Inkbird back in the incubator in the meantime.

Should I rest these eggs 12 hours or 24? They’re local so they shouldn’t be jostled around too much. The person I’m getting them from says they collected them over the last 3 days. It’s been 70-75 outside lately so I’m also worried that it’s been warm enough some of them might have already started cooking.

 

[sealer39]

Redid the salt test with a glass pyrex dish w/ rubber lid, table salt in an actual bottle cap. Put both the Govee and the Inkbird in the same container. Started at around 10pm last night; checked it at 10am this morning.

Govee: 72.5%
Inkbird: 74%, I checked it again just now (I have to open the container to read it unfortunately) and now it says 76%??

I’m going to be picking up our eggs this afternoon, and I’m going to go put the Govee and Inkbird back in the incubator in the meantime.

Should I rest these eggs 12 hours or 24? They’re local so they shouldn’t be jostled around too much. The person I’m getting them from says they collected them over the last 3 days. It’s been 70-75 outside lately so I’m also worried that it’s been warm enough some of them might have already started cooking.

Look at the Govee reading on your phone and see how much it leveled off.

 

[TeePants]

Attached the screen cap but basically it leveled off at 72.5, it looks like?

 

[sealer39]

It’s up to you then. You can adjust them both to 75% and call it quits.

 

[Ratchnick]

When i incubate my own eggs i dont rest them.

 

[Ravenlover]

Redid the salt test with a glass pyrex dish w/ rubber lid, table salt in an actual bottle cap. Put both the Govee and the Inkbird in the same container. Started at around 10pm last night; checked it at 10am this morning.

Govee: 72.5%
Inkbird: 74%, I checked it again just now (I have to open the container to read it unfortunately) and now it says 76%??

I’m going to be picking up our eggs this afternoon, and I’m going to go put the Govee and Inkbird back in the incubator in the meantime.

Should I rest these eggs 12 hours or 24? They’re local so they shouldn’t be jostled around too much. The person I’m getting them from says they collected them over the last 3 days. It’s been 70-75 outside lately so I’m also worried that it’s been warm enough some of them might have already started cooking.

They sound good to go in, resting is mostly for shipped eggs

 

[TeePants]

Okay well, I let them sit for a minute then put them in! I candled them all and had to throw one out as it was already cracked.

Not loving the lack of quail rails on this turner. I doubled up to try to help but they still get jostled around quite a bit. I also tried taping paper dividers in but they seem to just slide out of place even when I taped them

 

[TeePants]

I actually just used a Kebonnixs with a Govee. The Govee read around 3 degrees cooler than the bator and the humidity was lower as well. I calibrated the hygrometer using the salt method. The temp on the incubator was the one I went off of. I checked it and it matched my other thermometers.

Hey, did you use the Kebonnixs for quail? How’d you deal with the lack of rails for them?