Newborn chicks swelling and weakening

[Aziara]

What is the elevation where you live? I only discovered recently, after living at 7500 feet for over twenty years, that mercury thermometers read five degrees colder than the actual temperature due to the lack of atmospheric pressure. In other words, at high altitude, people using mercury thermometers must add five degrees to the thermometer reading to obtain an accurate temperature reading.

I'm so saddened by your experience. My sympathy goes out to you.

Thanks for your sympathy.

That's good to know if I ever move to a higher elevation, but where I live is like a max of 15ish feet above sea level, and I'm probably not even that high. I'm barely north from the Gulf of Mexico.

 

[lazy gardener]

Quote: It doesn't matter how many thermometers you use, or even how much they cost if they are not calibrated. An expensive thermometer can be just as wrong as a cheap one. I use a digital medical grade, or an old fashioned mercury bulb thermometer, and calibrate in a bowl of water to 100*F. Put the medical thermometer, and the one you are calibrating (assuming it's submersible) in the water and do a comparison of the reading.