October-hatch-along 2019

[Pensmaster]

Good luck everyone hatching out this month, I will not be joining in on this one, son hid my Incubator lol and winter is coming on here.

That’s one way to put the skids to chicken math.

 

[Don 27]

The ice water test you did should work fairly well. Remember it’s top of egg that you are taking temps from. Some thermometers ride on top of the eggs but if you have a turner they tend to slide off.

I manually tern them I have the thermometer on the ground of the incubator maybe I should move it.

 

[Don 27]

It does have a fan tho I don't know if that changes any thing.

 

[Pensmaster]

I manually tern them I have the thermometer on the ground of the incubator maybe I should move it.

Top of egg Fan or still air. The temps at bottom of incubator will be cooler than top of egg. So if it’s showing 99.5 at bottom it could be 100 top of egg.

 

[Pensmaster]

I manually tern them I have the thermometer on the ground of the incubator maybe I should move it.

Did your incubator come with a thermometer stapled to a plastic sheet?

 

[Don 27]

Did your incubator come with a thermometer stapled to a plastic sheet?

No it has a digital thermometer on the lid. https://www.bing.com/search?q=12+incubator+janoel&FORM=AWRE

 

[Pensmaster]

No it has a digital thermometer on the lid. https://www.amazon.com/Smartxchoices-Incubator-Automatic-Humidity-Chickens/dp/

Whats the temp on the lid say compared to the one you have set on the bottom.

 

[Don 27]

Whats the temp on the lid say compared to the one you have set on the bottom.

106 degrees Fahrenheit lid 99.7 on the mercury

 

[Pensmaster]

106 degrees Fahrenheit lid 99.7 on the mercury

Ok. Get the mercury as close to top of egg as you can. Even if the lid is only 2 degrees off that’s still 104 which is too high.
I’m checking out for the night.

 

[Don 27]

Ok thanks