New Dickey Incubator - 48 Bantam Eggs - All Done.

[miss_jayne]

that's not lazy, that's the whole point!

 

[NancyP]

Thanks. electronic it is then.
Nancy

 

[MAllen]

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electroni, spend up for it. what if the wafer goes out? no back up. with the electronic, there is a back up.

Actually there IS a backup with the wafer setup, which is what I have. In it you have two switches and two wafers. You set the backup first to hold the temp at 102F then set the primary to 99.5, if the primary switch goes out the backup saves the hatch. That's how I understood it anyway.

 

[miss_jayne]

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electroni, spend up for it. what if the wafer goes out? no back up. with the electronic, there is a back up.

Actually there IS a backup with the wafer setup, which is what I have. In it you have two switches and two wafers. You set the backup first to hold the temp at 102F then set the primary to 99.5, if the primary switch goes out the backup saves the hatch. That's how I understood it anyway.

okay, wait, maybe i have it backwards!!!!!!! lol! but i'll look inside mine. here's what i know...i have the top package. it has a back up on it. the thermostat is electronic and i believe the backup is a wafer.

 

[MAllen]

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Actually there IS a backup with the wafer setup, which is what I have. In it you have two switches and two wafers. You set the backup first to hold the temp at 102F then set the primary to 99.5, if the primary switch goes out the backup saves the hatch. That's how I understood it anyway.

okay, wait, maybe i have it backwards!!!!!!! lol! but i'll look inside mine. here's what i know...i have the top package. it has a back up on it. the thermostat is electronic and i believe the backup is a wafer.

Right, your has an electronic primary with a wafer backup. I thought about getting the electronic primary but didn't. I did however make sure that I could upgrade to it without having to send the unit back. Maybe I will someday but so far the wafer is working really well!!

 

[MAllen]

End of day #1 and no need to open the incubator. Temp is holding very steady at 99.9 and the humidity is a steady 56%, so all is well I suppose.

 

[MAllen]

End of day two and nothing exciting to report. Again, no need to open the incubator. The temp is steady and humidity is holding at 54%. If it's still good at 6 in the morning I'll leave it for the day, but tomorrow night at 6 pm I will open it and fill the humidity trays regardless of the reading.

If I could change anything about the Dickey incubator it would be to make the window larger so that I could see the water trays.

Today I went to a poultry auction that was being held at the Harding Game Fowl farm which is located outside of Inola Oklahoma. You would not believe the incubator I saw there, it was AWESOME! It holds 58,000 quail eggs at one time and that's just in half of it. The other half is the hatcher were they move the eggs for hatching. The owner gave me the tour and told me that all he has to do is put the eggs in and flip the switch, nothing more until he moves them to the hatching trays. It's very automated for temp and humidity.

 

[MAllen]

End of day three. Temp is holding steady at 99.9 and humidity is 52%. I opened the incubator and filled all three Tupperware trays with water, they were all low.

Today I bought a new thermometer made by Geratherm. Wallgreens has them for about 6 dollars. These are the new therms that took over where mercury left off. The company claims they are accurate to within .1 degree. I have this in the incubator now to check the electronic one that came with the bator. I've already checked it's humidity reading using a calibrated electronic unit that I already had, it's dead on. We'll see how accurate the temp is tomorrow.

Same bat time, same bat station... oops, just gave away my age

 

[austinhart123]

definantly keep us updated, i havent read all your posts but just curious, are you going to candle? if so let us know how it goes.

im a little behind you i set 37 eggs 9/26/09 so we should hatch a few days apart. good luck

 

[pluckypecker]

let us know about the mercury-less thermometer! i've heard that they were better to use, but regarding its accuracy I've heard many different reports... keep us posted!! (Thanks!!)