room temp

[redhd077]

What is a good room temp to but an incubator in?? Is 60*ish ok or too cold??

 

[CCourson05]

Sounds good. Just so long as the room doesn't fluctuate in temperature.

 

[youngbiddy]

If you've got an LG you want the room to be 70.

Trust me.

Scratch that. Ask me how I know.

 

[latebloomer]

i had my house thermometer set to different temperatures at different times of day but that made keeping the incubator temperature fickle.

so i changed it so that it's 62 degrees all the time, and my hovabator is able to stay at my desired temperature, give or take a few tenths of a degree.

 

[petunias212]

that is sooooooooo true!

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[redhd077]

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LOL how did you know i have an lg! I had a failed 1st attempt. I thought it was because i had my bator kinda by a door so i was going to try it in our office, but that room stays at any where from 60-63. Unless we start our fireplace and the it gets warmer than that. I guess i could close the door if we did.

 

[youngbiddy]

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LOL how did you know i have an lg! I had a failed 1st attempt. I thought it was because i had my bator kinda by a door so i was going to try it in our office, but that room stays at any where from 60-63. Unless we start our fireplace and the it gets warmer than that. I guess i could close the door if we did.

I keep mine in our master bath, and our whole house is kept at 65 in the winter. We're in NC though, so it's not too terribly cold outside. Right after my chicks hatched the weather warmed up remarkably for a week, and the average house temp went to 72. My bator went from 3 degree temp swings to .2 degree temp swings.

Apparently, the key to a perfectly operating LG is a surrounding temp of 70 degrees or above. I still got a 66% hatch rate on shipped eggs, but a steady bator is better for my nerves.

 

[redhd077]

So if it stays at 60 whould it be ok? or do i really need it to be 70 and stay?

 

[youngbiddy]

I think you'll have big temp swings in a 60 degree room. Do you have a small room you can put it in with a small heater of some sort? Like in a laundry room with a space heater?

 

[redhd077]

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I had them in my laundry room the 1st round and they didn't hatch. we have a small office in the back of our house and it stays about 61 in there all the time unless we start a fire (which we live in Idaho so yes even in april ya might need it) but i could close the door. Or my other option is to put it in my son's room...which stays at 70, but then at night i might wake him checking on eggs. lol