Little Giant Incubation Experiment - Day 21 - Hatch Day!

[Silkie-Feet]

Day 10 update!

All of the eggs look good, good being not able to see much. Although, I'm glad I set this super thin egg, I can still see clearly through it! Sorry for the poor video quality, my phone wasn't cooperating.

 

[Cold Canadian]

I've been using the little giant for years as well , enough egg capacity , great hatch's after learning from my mistakes .I now only add water at lock down ,and not a lot once they hatching starts the humidity spikes and even with a fan that I installed the humidity can be extreme .For your money and with a bit of tweaking you will have great results

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I hope your hatch goes well! The motor does produce quite a bit of heat, and I avoid the slots near it as well. If I need to use them, I use them. I doubt the eggs there will hatch, but at least they have a chance; better than not setting them at all. In your case, I would do what I'm accustomed to and what I know yields good results. Personally, I could risk a couple eggs to keep an entire hatch. You shouldn't have any issues, but I'm nervous with you.

Things evened back out. I'm going to look at this as a learning experience. It's always good to get a handle on new things. This time it will be manually turning. The developement looks awesome! We are going into day 5 this afternoon. If the developement stays on target and nothing happens to fry these guys we are looking at a good hatch. I just can't wait for Friday so I can candle all of them and mark air cells. I want to be sure that the developement is on going. I do have one I discovered a couple of days ago had somehow, (and I honestly have no idea whatsoever how,) got cracked down near the bottom. Looked like something hit it. I put some wax on it, but any growth that was going on is done. It's got a couple blood spots in it so you can see it was fertile, but done now. Of course that still leaves 41 lol

Day 10 update!

All of the eggs look good, good being not able to see much. Although, I'm glad I set this super thin egg, I can still see clearly through it! Sorry for the poor video quality, my phone wasn't cooperating.

Look at that guy go!! That is a lot of movement! Awesome!!

 

[narragansett1]

So im on day 5 with my lg 9300 still air model it seems to be holding temp good today ive had it set at 100.5 and i stayed at 99.0 so im not sure why that is I candled last night and all 19 eggs have somthing going on i did find 2 eggs with hair line cracks not to sure if that will affect them or not this is my first time with this model i used to have the 9200 still air with a thomas calibrated thermometer it was 0.2 +or- accurate im thinking of buying another calibrated thermometer and a fan for this unit but we will see how this hatch goes first happy hatching to every one....


this thing was so accurite

 

[Silkie-Feet]

@narragansett1 If you'll notice on the display, the heat shuts off and displays that the temp is okay when the incubator is within a .5 degree range of the desired temp. I think this is to prevent the incubator from warming past the desired temp if the heating unit was still adding heat after turning off (coils still warm). Thus, if you want the incubator to be exactly 100.5, set the incubator to 101. You said that it is staying at 99, and the factory setting is 99.5. Make sure you did set the temp to 101.5, you have to hold the set button, raise the temp, then hold the set button again. To check to see if you have it set right, hit the set button and it will display the temperature setting it is at. Was your incubator thermometer accurate based on the other thermometer? Thanks for posting, join the thread and post your results!

 

[narragansett1]

thank you silkie-feet that makes sence for it to shut off .5 before your desired temp i think with this 9300 the big issue i was having is the lil temp probe i noticed if i move it just a little bit that i have to change the temp on the unit to make up for it so i picked a good spot for it on the rack and made some marks so when i turn the eggs i can put it back in the same spot and sence i did that it has not budged of its temp its been perfect now when there is chicks in there banging around i can see that being a problem so as of right now where i have the thermometer probe sitting there all reading 100 steady so i think this should be a good hatch im hoping for 15from19 too had cracks that i could not see till i candled but one of those looks good the other not so good so does any one have any good ideas to secure the probe for lockdown.....

 

[Silkie-Feet]

I'm glad it's going good for you, this is a learning experience for me too. Let me know how your hatch goes!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

So I have come to the conclusion that one side of my heating element is hotter than the other. One thermometer reads higher, when I switch the thermometers the other willl read higher. So instead of rotating the 40 eggs, I am rotating the lid...lol I think it's time to break down and buy myself a incubator.

 

[Silkie-Feet]

Sounds like you're getting a lot of issues this hatch, how much higher is one side from the other?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Sounds like you're getting a lot of issues this hatch, how much higher is one side from the other?

A bit over a degree.
I'm only having problems cause I was boasting I didn't have problems...it's like a Gibb's slap from God....lol