temp discrepancy in magicfly incubator

[Mick Boon]

I disagree, accurate humidity gauges can be very helpful in getting the target weight loss.

Agree, but that's not an option for some people.

Humidity guages can only help if you know the porosity of the egg shell, Nobody knows that, at best it's just a guess.

Why guess when you don't have to ?

 

[Kiki]

Humidity guages can only help if you know the porosity of the egg shell, Nobody knows that, at best it's just a guess.

Why guess when you don't have to ?

How many perfect hatches have you had in an incubator?

 

[Mick Boon]

How many perfect hatches have you had in an incubator?

I have lost count.... I used to incubate eggs that had a potential sale value when hatched of many thousands of dollars. It was important to get everything right.

 

[Mick Boon]

PS Most of my incubator hatched birds were started off under a broody for the first five days, that enhanced the hatchability in an incubator.

 

[Huntmaster]

I think we have a troll

 

[Sweeethearts_2002]

So I just got the mini magicfly automatic incubator and set it up, let it run for about 24 hours. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the temperature setting (I set to 37.5 c) matched the reading on my new brinsea spot check thermometer perfectly. I let it run for a while to monitor and then put a little bit of warm water in the bottom, and after that I couldn't get the built in temp reading and my spot check thermometer (supposedly extremely accurate) to match. The incubator said it was 37.5 but the thermometer said something like 34. I left it overnight to see if it would stabilize but it didn't, and in the morning I realized that in my research I had read it might help to put a blanket around it to maintain temp. This fixed it immediately, which I was again very happy about.

I then transferred the incubator to the more temp-controlled room where I was planning to incubate and let it sit for a few hours, again temp remained steady so I decided to put the eggs in. I just had eggs shipped so I'm planning to keep them upright without turning for a few days to stabilize air cells, which I'm doing by placing them in a cut down egg carton. The automatic egg turner doesn't work for a number of reasons so I'm planning to hand turn once the air cells are stable, and in order to fit the eggs upright in the carton I had to take out one of the floor layers (there are two). In order to make this work I also had to move what I'm guessing is the incubator temperature probe around a bit so it wouldn't touch the eggs. After I did this the temperature was reading completely differently, before it could even get back anywhere close to a reading of 37.5 on the incubator my thermometer started reading close to 39 c. I tried moving things around a bit and realized that when I measured the temp with the spot check higher up it read much higher, and lower when it was closer to the bottom. From my understanding this should not be the case as it's a forced air incubator. After playing with the settings a bit I got the spot check to read between 37-38 with the incubator set to 35.5.

Does anyone know why the readings would have changed or which one I should trust? For now I'm going with the spot check just to be safe, as I don't want to cook them. I ordered an incubator warehouse thermometer so I can add that too when it comes and maybe that will clarify things. I'm mostly just wondering what caused the sudden discrepancy.

I borrowed a magicfly incubator for my first time to incu ever.. I've had 4 casualties due to temprature not being accurate. I bought a hygrometer and I'm doing my best to finish the hatch of the eggs I wanted to hatch using it. I cant afford an incu right now but I had all the parts needed to make my own from a fish aquarium and I will say at day 3 candli g the embryos look 100% better.. I'm kinda stoked.