If I try and not block vents with a blanket, nothing happens it doesnt warm. Its raining again today, so the bators screwed up.
I've resorted to just cover the vent holes with the blanket, which will just screw up how its regualed.
It dawns on me now that you are probably using the thermometer that came with the unit? Something you said upthread about it falling off all the time... I probably should have thought of that before.
Those little bulb thermos are notoriously inaccurate and I've even had them explode on me. Im assuming the unit is cycling on and off, as it does hold temperature, so all is not lost.
Get a common $3 digi-thermometer, like the ones you use for a kid, and place it inside the bator inside a "pseudo-egg".
Make this "pseudo-egg" by filling a zip lock sandwich baggie one third full of water and then roll it into a small egg shape, water filled mass. Secure it with a rubber band and then work the probe tip of the thermometer into the center of the baggie "egg."
Now set the whole thing into the bator as if it were an egg itself. This way you will read whatever temps the eggs are actually feeling, not some random or inaccurate temp as a result of that stock thermometer. Adjust in small increments til you reach 100 degrees, + or - , inside the "SortaEgg."
Should I bother candling? I mean the bator showing 97.2 this morning, taking out them seems like a bad idea, since they're too cold as is. Maybe should I just candle and save myself the aggravation of having to come up on saturday to get a bunch dead eggs out of the turner.
Sure, candle. Even if this whole thing turns out badly, you will have learned much. That is what this is all about, right?
It's seriously threatening to storm, though right now. Should I just wait till the storms past to try and do anything? I swear after yesterday, and then this, with everything else, there's no use
The passing storm fronts are mostly the cause of minor changes in the incubator, not drastic swings. So if things are holding, albeit not where you would like, take heart.... they ARE holding.
The small styro incubators are fraught with pitfalls for the uninitiated, things no one tells you about. So, try these things and keep your chin up. Fail or succeed, remember the kids are watching you... be steadfast.
I've resorted to just cover the vent holes with the blanket, which will just screw up how its regualed.
It dawns on me now that you are probably using the thermometer that came with the unit? Something you said upthread about it falling off all the time... I probably should have thought of that before.
Those little bulb thermos are notoriously inaccurate and I've even had them explode on me. Im assuming the unit is cycling on and off, as it does hold temperature, so all is not lost.
Get a common $3 digi-thermometer, like the ones you use for a kid, and place it inside the bator inside a "pseudo-egg".
Make this "pseudo-egg" by filling a zip lock sandwich baggie one third full of water and then roll it into a small egg shape, water filled mass. Secure it with a rubber band and then work the probe tip of the thermometer into the center of the baggie "egg."
Now set the whole thing into the bator as if it were an egg itself. This way you will read whatever temps the eggs are actually feeling, not some random or inaccurate temp as a result of that stock thermometer. Adjust in small increments til you reach 100 degrees, + or - , inside the "SortaEgg."
Should I bother candling? I mean the bator showing 97.2 this morning, taking out them seems like a bad idea, since they're too cold as is. Maybe should I just candle and save myself the aggravation of having to come up on saturday to get a bunch dead eggs out of the turner.
Sure, candle. Even if this whole thing turns out badly, you will have learned much. That is what this is all about, right?
It's seriously threatening to storm, though right now. Should I just wait till the storms past to try and do anything? I swear after yesterday, and then this, with everything else, there's no use
The passing storm fronts are mostly the cause of minor changes in the incubator, not drastic swings. So if things are holding, albeit not where you would like, take heart.... they ARE holding.
The small styro incubators are fraught with pitfalls for the uninitiated, things no one tells you about. So, try these things and keep your chin up. Fail or succeed, remember the kids are watching you... be steadfast.
