temp problmes in incubator ??? please help.

[Country Living Farm]

Ok, I have hatched several times and I just bought a little digital temp/hum to put in the incubator. The problem is I have been using the standard temp thermometer (little glass type that comes with the incubator) and when I put in the digital one with the one the incubator came with, the digital one showes a temp of 5-7 degrees lower than the one the incubator came with. If I turn up the heat until the digital one reads 99.5 then the factory one read like 105-107. Is this normal???? Is the digital that much more percise than the factory one or is something wrong with the digital one. From what I hatched using the standard one, Ihave had an 90% success. The only reason I got it was to monitor the humidy in the incubator but now I am confused. I hope what I typed makes sence. Please help!!!

O, the digital one I bought was from Wal-mart and is a small white one. They also sell tons of them just like it one Ebay so I am guessing it is a good digital thermometer

 

[goldnchocolate]

Maybe you could get a third thermometer and check it against the other two and see which one is wrong. Good luck!

Oh, and BTW, welcome to the forum!!!!

 

[SoJoChickens]

If you have had 90% success rate with the standard thermometer, I would stick with that

. Digital does not necessarily = accurate and 90% success is very good.

 

[chanda]

I agree with SoJo. I was given a new digital thermometer/hygrometer(?) as a "happy", and put it in my incubator once. (Had been using the "included" thermometer up to that point.) I left BOTH thermometers in there just for kicks, and BOTH had different readings. The digital actually said that it was 105 degrees when the "included" read at 99.5.

I decided to continue to use the "included" thermostat since I KNEW it worked for my hatching.

Best of luck to you!

Chanda