My Lyon incubator is here, please help...

[IggiMom]

I am having a terrible time putting this thing together. The blue thing goes on the bottom, on top of the mesh, right? But what way is up? The pictures in the instructions are not at all clear to me. I can't figure out what makes the eggs turn.

I am also having a hard time gettting the temp right.

And I haven't even STARTED trying to figure out the water reservoir.

Thanks, help help.

I am SO not good at putting things together. I guess my main question at this point is, what direction does the blue thing on the bottom go.

Catherine (IggiMom)

 

[canada-goose]

The side with all the troughs (used to control the water flow) goes up.

 

[JScatt69]

Is it a Marsh(Lyon Technologies) incubator? If so it probably has a wafer style thermostat? I found that you have to play with the temp control knob a little bit to get the right temp. I have also found thier instructions a little confusing, but they are great bators

 

[IggiMom]

Yes, what you said. And I did fiddle and fiddle and fiddle with it, but now it seems to be really at 100 degrees and it hasn't moved.

Is it true that you can leave the turning grid in there for lockdown? Or should I take it out.

I don't really have a good place to take them out to hatch.

True to the addiction, every time I add an incubator, I just get more eggs.

Catherine

 

[canada-goose]

The grid stays in. Which model is it? TX-6 or TX-7?

 

[IggiMom]

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I'm not sure. Where would I find that information?

Catherine

 

[canada-goose]

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I'm not sure. Where would I find that information?

Catherine

If it's a TX-7, you'll need to turn the knob a lot farther to adjust the temperature.

 

[JScatt69]

The first time I used mine I left the grid in and the chicks were getting caught up in it and trapped under it, the second time I used it I took the grid out on day 18 and layed the eggs on the screen. Mine is the same model as yours but much older, maybe the grid is different

 

[IggiMom]

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I'm not sure. Where would I find that information?

Catherine

If it's a TX-7, you'll need to turn the knob a lot farther to adjust the temperature.

Then I think it must be a TX-6.

I would turn it one way a tiny bit and it would go up four degrees, and then I do the reverse and it would go down too far. I did finally fiddle and fiddle with it, and got it onto 100, and it has stayed that way ever since.

I just put a bunch of eggs in there and it did go down a little bit for just a few minutes, but then right back up.

So I am happy in that respect--the weather has been WAY weird, too, up to 85 during the day, record highs for West Virginia in April. The instructions, like instructions for any incubator that I ever read, say that the temperature of the room makes a big difference. But I don't really have a place where the temp stays at 70 degrees day and night. Well I do, but it is in the living room where the dogs and cats go, and I can just see myself coming home to the animals making omelets.

So anyway, it seems to be holding the temperature well regardless of the temp of the room.

We'll see on the humidity.

Catherine (IggiMom)

 

[canada-goose]

Good luck!