Right back at you too!!My 9300 is still air as well, what exactly ruined your hatch? Mine hasn't given me any complications yet, but I would like to know your cause to ensure I'm not overlooking anything. I still haven't gotten a hatch out of the 9300, and despite the temp spikes in the other I still don't know which will perform the best.
@AmyLynn2374 , here's to hoping you get another great hatch!
That was my first attempt at incubating, and the results were so horrific that I didn't try again until I could afford a Brinsea. The few that did hatch were late, and had curled toes, splayed legs, and unabsorbed yolk sacs. Had to cull 3 of 5. After watching a fully automatic incubator, I think I know what my mistakes were. Temperature dips and spikes were some of it, but I think my biggest mistake was not buying a hygrometer. I was excited to use it, and had my own endless supply of eggs. I just filled up the water channels and put them in. Temperature would vary from 95 to 103, and I work long hours, so I couldn't babysit that, but I am certain that my humidity was way too high for the first 18 days. Fully developed chicks that never pipped. I never measured humidity, and I am certain that it was too high with all of the channels full. I think a lot of first timers do the same thing. I think I could do better if I tried again, but with a full time job the Brinsea was worth the money for meMy 9300 is still air as well, what exactly ruined your hatch? Mine hasn't given me any complications yet, but I would like to know your cause to ensure I'm not overlooking anything. I still haven't gotten a hatch out of the 9300, and despite the temp spikes in the other I still don't know which will perform the best.
@AmyLynn2374 , here's to hoping you get another great hatch!
Part of the problem as well is that new people go by the manufacture's instructions for hatching and they are useless. A person needs to understand what humidity is all about and why we control it -not told to "fill 2/3 of your wells until lockdown..." One person can fill that much and get 70% humidity while this other person is in a very dry climate, and uses the same instructions and ends up with maybe 20%. I hate those instructions. I wish they'd read, "For best results research hatching well and talk to local hatchers before attempting." On top of that, most of the still air incubator instructions still recommend 99.5F in these machines that should be 101-102. I'm trying to start a chicken blog and one of my posts I intend to name 'Throw out those incubator instructions'. (Not really advising them to throw them out, but to use other areas of research for the actual methods of hatching.) I don't have all that much experience, I'm fairly new myself, but I research and perfect ad naseum. I have a pretty good learning curve and I'm very opinionated...lol I believe if you figure out the why you can figure out the how. Most people don't care about the why as long as they can figure out a how.
That was what hurt me as well. I think humidity is the most crucial part, and I have learned a lot since then on BYC. Even with the Brinsea I've had better results making adjustments after double checking the factory settings. I read everyone's recommendations about doing that before my first attempt, but I thought "How hard can it really be?"
Alot of people have been complaining about the temp flunctuation in the 9300 and the next one up...10300???
Honestly, I couldn't tell you. I didn't measure humidity, but I kept all the wells full. It was in January, so the bedroom could have had some fluctuating temps, but not much. Would always be between 65 and 70.
