MGG's Hatching Thread!

[Kellyjenny]

Yes up to 102F is correct. Your goal with any incubator is to get the eggs to 99.5F but if you set a still air incubator to 99.5 you'll probably have too many cold spots. Mine did best at 100F-100.5F.

MGG two more days till the eggs how's everything going.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Aw! It's so annoying when that happens, lol. I lost Mystery's Malay thread fir a while too.
You didn't miss much! I'm down to 5 eggs, on day 17.

Oh cool! Which breeds are left?

 

[MGG]

It's at 100 back and forth to 100.5 and I said it to 100.2 so it's good I'm all good right

Yup!

Oh cool! Which breeds are left?

2 Lavender Ameraucanas, and 3 BBS Ameraucana X BBS Orpingtons. She said it's possible that I could get pure BBS Ameraucanas too.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

It's at 100 back and forth to 100.5 and I said it to 100.2 so it's good I'm all good right

Yes it should be just fine. Do you have a secondary thermometer inside the incubator?

 

[Kellyjenny]

Yes it should be just fine. Do you have a secondary thermometer inside the incubator?

 

[Kellyjenny]

Yes it's reading too low I don't know if it's good or not I'm going to go out and get brand new ones I'm going to my father's house right now and look at what's going on and I'll get back to you guys thank you

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Yes it's reading too low I don't know if it's good or not I'm going to go out and get brand new ones I'm going to my father's house right now and look at what's going on and I'll get back to you guys thank you

Ok calibrate your secondary thermometers or they won't be helpful to you but increasing the temp may be necessary if it's actually reading low in there.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Yes it's reading too low I don't know if it's good or not I'm going to go out and get brand new ones I'm going to my father's house right now and look at what's going on and I'll get back to you guys thank you

I buy these cheapo digital thermometers and I use a meat thermometer that can be submerged in water to calibrate them.

 

[MGG]

Guys! My babies are shadowing so much!!! I'm just going to quit turning today I think. It seems pointless to do it anymore. My Lav-Black split is shadowing so much, that it looks like it could internally pip any minute! I'm so excited, I've been waiting for so long.
My poor mama hen has been too, she's been sitting on easter eggs for 28 days.

 

[Kellyjenny]

I buy these cheapo digital thermometers and I use a meat thermometer that can be submerged in water to calibrate them.

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Just got to my father's house I jacked up the heat to 100.2 the thermometer on the bottom that I put in reads 90 OMG Im ARGUING with him he thinks I'm trying to kill them. I should go with the temperature on the bottom my thermometer. So if the thermometer on the bottom is really low I should jack up the heat I'm so sorry you guys