Just put 2 dozen assorted eggs in the 9300 at 8:30pm. I bought the 9300 at TSC almost 3 months ago. and the egg turner. It's ran off and on a dozen times checking out warm/cool spots with a "human" temperature thermometer. Most of the human ones are within 2/10's of a deg accuracy and I used 3 different ones I have here and they were all within 1/10 deg of each other... I checked one of my remote reading weather station boards that the air speed had shot craps on..the temp and humidity still worked so I stuck it in ice water (in a ziplock bag) and used the saturated air/wet salt test (sensor in a ziplock "mostly" zipped up) for the humidity...it reads 3/10's degree low compared to the human thermometer...the humidity is 2% high reading...so that's one of the two I used to check this 9300 incubator out with.
The humidity reading on the stock 9300 "meter"/controller is goofy above 65% or below 40%..the temp controller reading has to be set to 100 degs to get 99.3 to 99.8 reading swing on the stock controller but on the added calibrated thermometers it's fairly stable at 99.6 or 99.8. But it holds a steady temp range right there for days...and days!
Right now the eggs are still warming up cuz the temp reading is 99.4 to 99.6 almost on the eggs themselves. It's only been just almost 2 hours so far.. Humidity seems to have stabilized out at about 35%. I'm going to run a dry hatch! I'll just have to let it run there cuz the house indoor humidity is sitting on 50%.
I installed a fairly new computer power supply fan "kit" inside the little plastic heater enclosure myself, it looks stock. It's not all that strong but it keeps heat fairly well distributed. But is 25% more airflow then a stock Little Giant...but that's ok I guess? It has it's own power supply (repurposed wall wart from "something" that used 12volts DC) going to it, I didn't want to use the stock 9300 fan pins with a strange fan.
Eggs are from a local part-time hobby type farmer. I broke one open cuz it had a small chunk of shell missing... the membrane was intact but dark/dirty... I candled it....clear of course...I looked at the bulls-eye fertilized telltale spot on the yoke...good! And he sells only fertilized eggs...for eating or hatching and they are 2 bucks a dozen ( bought 3 dozen...one for eating and culling and only picking the best shape/size/color for hatching) which makes them a real good buy at todays supermarket prices!
I have a mix of eggs all from this morning or afternoon's laying, I suppose that should be fresh enough! and not refrigerated ..mostly brown or several lightly-brownish pink...but 2 of them are light almost olive green. EE?..and 3 of them are really dark brown ...Morans. a few are a very light tanish-green. That feller has a mixed flock of birds with "mostly" a SLW roo, he looks handsome and quite capable! and mounted one hen while I was there....hens are mixed of course. It's a large flock of mixed birds..lol
And in the middle of next week sometime I go and pick up a SLW?/NHR? 8-9 month old mixed roo...a pretty bird!! and a younger 16-17 week old Maran/Blue Maran mixed roo... at the same fellers little farm.. $10 ea.. not too bad.
We will see if one of these cheap but well tuned and calibrated styro-bators can do a credible job hatchin some chik'ns. I have my remote sensor alarm set to beep me awake or at least get my attention if the temp drops below 99 degrees..
The humidity reading on the stock 9300 "meter"/controller is goofy above 65% or below 40%..the temp controller reading has to be set to 100 degs to get 99.3 to 99.8 reading swing on the stock controller but on the added calibrated thermometers it's fairly stable at 99.6 or 99.8. But it holds a steady temp range right there for days...and days!
Right now the eggs are still warming up cuz the temp reading is 99.4 to 99.6 almost on the eggs themselves. It's only been just almost 2 hours so far.. Humidity seems to have stabilized out at about 35%. I'm going to run a dry hatch! I'll just have to let it run there cuz the house indoor humidity is sitting on 50%.
I installed a fairly new computer power supply fan "kit" inside the little plastic heater enclosure myself, it looks stock. It's not all that strong but it keeps heat fairly well distributed. But is 25% more airflow then a stock Little Giant...but that's ok I guess? It has it's own power supply (repurposed wall wart from "something" that used 12volts DC) going to it, I didn't want to use the stock 9300 fan pins with a strange fan.
Eggs are from a local part-time hobby type farmer. I broke one open cuz it had a small chunk of shell missing... the membrane was intact but dark/dirty... I candled it....clear of course...I looked at the bulls-eye fertilized telltale spot on the yoke...good! And he sells only fertilized eggs...for eating or hatching and they are 2 bucks a dozen ( bought 3 dozen...one for eating and culling and only picking the best shape/size/color for hatching) which makes them a real good buy at todays supermarket prices!
I have a mix of eggs all from this morning or afternoon's laying, I suppose that should be fresh enough! and not refrigerated ..mostly brown or several lightly-brownish pink...but 2 of them are light almost olive green. EE?..and 3 of them are really dark brown ...Morans. a few are a very light tanish-green. That feller has a mixed flock of birds with "mostly" a SLW roo, he looks handsome and quite capable! and mounted one hen while I was there....hens are mixed of course. It's a large flock of mixed birds..lol
And in the middle of next week sometime I go and pick up a SLW?/NHR? 8-9 month old mixed roo...a pretty bird!! and a younger 16-17 week old Maran/Blue Maran mixed roo... at the same fellers little farm.. $10 ea.. not too bad.
We will see if one of these cheap but well tuned and calibrated styro-bators can do a credible job hatchin some chik'ns. I have my remote sensor alarm set to beep me awake or at least get my attention if the temp drops below 99 degrees..
