Problems with incabateing

[yorkster]

hi i am trying to hatch 17 Ameraucana chicken's. first time hatch. i have a brower 11670-3 still air incabator. i cant seem to get the temp adjusted. i turn the dial and it take's a half round for the light and element to come on. and it imedallys goes to 106 degerees. i dont want to run my egg's if it aint allready done. can anyone tell me a trick to setting temp. hopeing the incabator aint messed up. butt it will hold that temp steady. just cant seem to get it lower. any advice would be apreacated.

 

[Habibs Hens]

temp in still air is different

you need to measure 99.5 at the top of the egg


so the temp might register higher at the top of the incubator

 

[yorkster]

yea. the incabator i got given to me they just quit doing chicking's as they moved in town and it set 3 yrs with out use.i took the wafle out of it and it had bee nest's in it i cleaned it out and now it seem's to be getting better and holding stable at 99 to 100. hope i didnt kill them at the starting of it.

 

[Habibs Hens]

yea. the incabator i got given to me they just quit doing chicking's as they moved in town and it set 3 yrs with out use.i took the wafle out of it and it had bee nest's in it i cleaned it out and now it seem's to be getting better and holding stable at 99 to 100. hope i didnt kill them at the starting of it.

advice for next time

run the incubator for a week before setting eggs

that way you can see whats what and if its gonna fail it will show within a week

once week is over and its running stable then add eggs

 

[yorkster]

Yea. I would have butt i was given the eggs at the same time....didnt have any thing else to put em in so.