little giant 9300

[jurczak09]

Yes get that heat down to 99.5, also have you placed another thermometer/humidity inside of it? Better on the cool side than hot. Good to have another reading. The humidity measured by the probe is not accurate outside the 60-80% range. I have not had good hatch rates with shipped eggs and low humidity, with the fan I think it's best to shoot for the 50-55% range. Are the eggs shipped or local? As Bama stated already welcome to the club! ;-)

The eggs are both. I have some white rocks and buff oringtons that were shipped. I filled the rest of the incubator with rhode island reds that are from my parents flock. They always got the shipped peeps and brooded them so we are in uncharted territory right now. I don't have a second thermometer/humidity. I'll run over to Tractor supply in the am and get one to put in. Should I put it right under the heater/fan? And thank you, I'm so glad I stumbled onto this site when I googled for help!!

 

[bamadude]

1 thing i do know is:.... the thermometer on the 9300 is waaaaaaay off. If u set it on 99.5.... nothing could possibly ever hatch.... i highly recommend the brinsea spot check... its very very accurate

 

[bamadude]

The eggs are both. I have some white rocks and buff oringtons that were shipped. I filled the rest of the incubator with rhode island reds that are from my parents flock. They always got the shipped peeps and brooded them so we are in uncharted territory right now. I don't have a second thermometer/humidity.  I'll run over to Tractor supply in the am and get one to put in. Should I put it right under the heater/fan? And thank you, I'm so glad I stumbled onto this site when I googled for help!! 

i got an accurite temp/humidity from walmart. Its pretty good. Within a half degree. My thermostat on my 9300 is on 104.0

 

[jurczak09]

1 thing i do know is:.... the thermometer on the 9300 is waaaaaaay off. If u set it on 99.5.... nothing could possibly ever hatch.... i highly recommend the brinsea spot check... its very very accurate

Mine is set at 102 at the moment

 

[jurczak09]

i got an accurite temp/humidity from walmart. Its pretty good. Within a half degree. My thermostat on my 9300 is on 104.0

I was going to go to TS but if Walmart has them I will go there to save on cost! Do you happen to know the brand you got?

 

[bamadude]

I ordered a brinsea spot check from brinsea.com....the walmart 1 is accurite

 

[TheGeekySheep]

Idea: I've been thinking some more about the probe problem. I think at lockdown tomorrow night, I will transfer the eggs into cartons, fat side up, and anchor the incubator probe and my thermometer probe to empty slots at the center of the cartons. That will keep the eggs from rolling around into things, and keep hatching chicks from knocking the probes around. I will probably have to adjust the temp down a degree to make up for the increased height. Thoughts? Is it bad to position eggs that have been on their sides to standing up for hatching?

 

[jurczak09]

Yes get that heat down to 99.5, also have you placed another thermometer/humidity inside of it? Better on the cool side than hot. Good to have another reading. The humidity measured by the probe is not accurate outside the 60-80% range. I have not had good hatch rates with shipped eggs and low humidity, with the fan I think it's best to shoot for the 50-55% range. Are the eggs shipped or local? As Bama stated already welcome to the club! ;-)
Pull both red plugs out to get the heat more evenly distributed too.

I got a second thermometer and I lucked out. I put my digital that came with the incubator to 102 degrees and the two others that I put in read between 99&100 degrees. It's not digital but based on the location I'm looking at 99.7/99.8. My humidity however on the digital was saying 45% and the one I put in this morning said 60%. I have no water in it at all so I'm not real sure how to get it down to 55%. Hoping that doesn't affect them badly!

 

[jurczak09]

That sounds like a good idea, I would think the probe would be enough to hold. I'm not sure on the positioning as far as on their side going to upright but for the most part you could put them on their side in the carton. Let us know how you make out though! I have a turner and plan on hatching in egg cartons once lock down gets here but I am curious to know if repositioning is a major factor.

 

[only1bgirl]

It might take awhile for the one you put in to be accurate, so I would guess actual humidity is somewhere between the two readings, the eggs could be releasing moisture too. Some people swear by dry hatching, I've had bad experience with too low of humidity. I've read more about people hatching in cartons than not, the reasoning with shipped eggs is damaged air cells and non shipped eggs to keep the incubator clean and to keep the hatched chicks from boweling the other eggs. They all have chopped them down though and there is a debate between paper or styrofoam. I used paper cartons cut down someone posted nice photos of their modified cartons on this thread or other 9300. Other people say to leave them lying that the gravity helps. My first chick to hatch was flipping all over the place and wedged herself between the carton and wall, so I ended up quickly pulling a carton out, I had two half full, so I ended up with one full carton to one side. I ended up opening incubator during hatch which is not good. So Geeky if I had them on their sides I would just leave them on their sides, less obstacles and the incubator needs to be cleaned out anyway! It's also harder to see the pips if they do it low or at the pointy end.