Still air help!!!

[eksterhuis]

Just wondering where people set their thermometer, just above the eggs? near where the centre of the eggs are? To make matters more confusing I work in celsius, but I can change that online!

I have a Brinsea polyhatch, just haven't managed to get a good hatch out of it and know I should be able to. First hatch I had lots of spraddle leg and wonky feet (too hot?) and second I ran slightly cooler, seemed to be developing well but I think must have been too cool and died in shell.

Please let me know how people still air hatch! (I am ordering a fan forced incubator as well, but would like to try my polyhatch again!)

Thanks

 

[Ridgerunner]

In a still air, the temperature shopuld be measured right at the top of the eggs. In Celsius, you should get about 38.6 degrees. A few tenths off one way or the other is not a death sentence. Just do the best you can.

Hot air rises, so theire will be an increase in temperature as you go higher in a still air incubator. That's why the still air is measured differently than a forced air.

Have you calibrated your thermometer? Don't trust a thermometer to give you the right readings unless you have confirmed it reads as it should. There are different methoids to do this. Maybe this link will help.

Rebel’s Thermometer Calibration
http://cmfarm.us/ThermometerCalibration.html