Little Giant Incubation Experiment - Day 21 - Hatch Day!

Which model Little Giant do you prefer?

  • Model 9200 (Manual controls)

    Votes: 24 44.4%
  • Model 9300 (Digital controls)

    Votes: 30 55.6%

  • Total voters
    54
My first turkey incubation was at 97-98 for the duration and the poults were late, wet, and weak and many struggled and failed to hatch or thrive. Never again.
 
I wouldn't let me post a link, so here is what I tried to post:
When I started my hatch I went by this temperature info posted on Embryology site of University of Illinois :
Temperature

The Thermometer will always be sitting on the wire floor of the incubator. In a still air incubator, the closer you get to the top of the incubator, the higher the actual temperature.
We have worked out scientifically the proper thermometer reading for different size eggs, when on their side on the floor and when they are in the automatic turner. When setting eggs of different sizes, you will have to use an average half way between temperature in the chart below.
For automatic turner:

Operating Temperature for Eggs in Automatic Turner Summer Winter*
Quail Eggs 99 degrees 98 degrees
Bantam and Pheasant Size Eggs 98 degrees 97 degrees
Chicken and Other Large Eggs 97 degrees 96 degrees
Duck Eggs 95 degrees 94 degrees
(Do Not Set Goose Eggs in Turner)

then I read everywhere else it should always be around 100.00, so? What do you think?
I took a look around their site. In Another part of the site they make no differentiation between turner and manual turning. Personally, I'd like to know how they come to these conclusions. You adjust the height of the thermometer to match where the temp should be taken to maintain and reach recommended temps which is 101-102 taken near the top of the egg for still air, which is what this recommendation is for-still air. I personally would not attempt to incubate at that low of temps even to disprove their recommendations. I think they are full of bull pucky. I wouldn't even intentially incubate at that low in a forced air.
 
2 eggs are on day 22. I just candled them since there was no movement or pips, and the candling showed that there is no internal pip or movement in the egg either. What do I do?
Well, if it were ME, and there was not even an internal pip I would probably tap into the air cell to check for life. If there was movement, I'd wrap a wet paper towel around it and put it back in and give it more time. If not, I'd move to eggtopsy. But that's me. You can give them another day or two and then check.
 
The chick in that egg was dead. It had no movement at all.
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