need help now...hubby says internal temp needs to be higher

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! So hubby is looking at bator cause I told him my wiggler hasn't wiggled in a while. Our thermometer has an "in temp", an "out temp" and then humidity listed on it. The temp when he looked was...... in=100.8.....out 95.7......humidity 74%! Hubby said it was to cold that the the middle one should be at 100* and the top higher. Of course he adjusted it and Now it is 104.5....98.5 and 86% humidity! We do have a bag with water in it that hubby stuck the probe in between to gage the internal temp of the egg. I guess I am just freaking out! Please tell me we didn't just screw up royally!
 
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I am by no means that experienced but I would have left it alone. You are too close to them to hatch to cook them now.
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good luck on your hatch.
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I'm not sure what kind of incubator you have - still air or fan? Your internal temp seems ok but your humidity is way to high. I would try to get it down to 60 or less. Less is better. When the chicks hatch your humidity will go up from them drying and you will need to pull your plugs. I would pull them now to see if you can get it to come down a bit.
Good luck!!!
Edited to add that I didn't see the 104*. Way too high. Lift the lid to disperse the extra heat and get some of the humidity out. You won't hurt them at this stage and could cause more harm by leaving them the way it is.
 
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We do have a fan! It seems to going down a little. Makes me crazy, I have been taking care of them everyday, keeping humidity at 50% etc and then bam 2 days before hatch I find out the internal temp is wrong!


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Sorry for your trouble. Try, try to remember why you married each other. Then buy another incu and each of you take care of your own. You can always get more eggs but it ain't easy to get another husband. Especially if he's got a job. LOL. This to shall pass. I just hope for his sake everything turns out alright. As God is my witness I would send you some more eggs rather than see you two fighting over this. I've got Dels and CM's.
Love covers a multitude of Sins. , Forgive one another as Christ has forgiven you, Love bears all things, Love does not consider it's own. Esteem others more highly than your self. Sorry I just hate when I'm angry and how I feel so I know it must be hard.
 
Thank you so much! We're not fighting, he's doing his chicken dance around the bator and I am singing the egg song!
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I am just really worried about this temp thing it say that the internal temp of egg is 99* and bator temp is 103* I pray everything turns out alright!
 

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