King Suro 20 Help If You Have One

[Drew6Melton]

what do you set your temp and humidity at in your suro 20 i have been getin like 12 to hatch out and i sould get at less 20 so if you can tell me what you keep your at it will help alot thanks

 

[ChickFila]

I am currently incubating 24 blue marans eggs in my R-com Suro.
I set temp. at 99.7F, it hold temp very steady (always between 99.5 and 99.9), and humidity set at 40%, it is between 38% and 40%.
It's so easy and worry-free, I think I need one more Suro 20

 

[Drew6Melton]

i have 2 of them last year i did really good but i just cant get them to hatch now what do you do on day 18 i got one set at 55 and one set a 35 and im going to put some egg in to day in see what happens

 

[longranger]

Check your temp and humidity against a thermometer and hygrometer that you trust. Do not assume that the out of box calibration is correct. My Suro and every brinsea I have had has been off by at least 1 degree, averaging 1.5 degrees. The temp almost always reads too high in new units. Makes sense since the thermometer is at the top of the unit and hot air rises. Even in a perfectly calibrated unit the temp from the top to the bottom of the egg usually varies by about 1 degree in both my Suro and Binsea 20. Try to calibrate with the secondary thermometer at the height of the tops of the eggs.

 

[Brickman House]

Totally agree with Longranger! I'm in the middle of my first hatch with my King Suro, and although it's been great at holding temps and humidity steady, I suspect my temperature was too low for this hatch. I assumed it'd be correct right out of the box, so I didn't calibrate it.

I set 17 duck eggs, and have had 10 hatch as of today, Day 29, with several more in process. So the hatch rate I think will be good, but the late hatch leads me to believe the 99.5 F I was reading throughout the incubation wasn't quite right. Oh well, that's what test hatches are for!

I've just ordered a Brinsea Spot Check thermometer (which comes highly recommended for reliability from this board), and I'll calibrate it before I set my next batch. I'm also going to double check the humidity. I have an Accurite which I'll calibrate, then pop it into the Suro after this hatch to see how it reads against it.

My very limited experience with this incubator is that it's extremely steady and reliable at holding settings, so if you're having disappointing hatches in it, I'd suspect either your settings being off, or another cause.

Also, I remember reading from another poster here that when she switched the display read out from Celsius to Farenheit, it caused the incubator to run at a slightly lower temperature, so that might be at play here, too.