Temp Trouble

[SilkieLady6]

i recently bought a little giant incubator, I was reading that the thermometer on it wasn't that accurate, two days after putting eggs in it I bought a hygrometer, and it said it was only at 75 degrees! I've raised the temperature since but will the eggs still develope or are they goners?

 

[Pyxis]

Did you calculate the new thermometer to make sure it is reading accurately?

If they truly were at 75 degrees, then they never would have started to develop at all. So provided they weren't old enough to lose viability, then they'll still be fine, but your start day is the day that you raised the temperature, not the original day you put them in.

 

[SilkieLady6]

Did you calculate the new thermometer to make sure it is reading accurately?

If they truly were at 75 degrees, then they never would have started to develop at all. So provided they weren't old enough to lose viability, then they'll still be fine, but your start day is the day that you raised the temperature, not the original day you put them in.

Ok, so they will start developing today?

 

[Pyxis]

Ok, so they will start developing today?

Yes, but again, make sure you calibrate those thermometers. I just reread that the new one is really part of a hygrometer and not a thermometer, so that one might not really be all that accurate either.

 

[007Sean]

i recently bought a little giant incubator, I was reading that the thermometer on it wasn't that accurate, two days after putting eggs in it I bought a hygrometer, and it said it was only at 75 degrees! I've raised the temperature since but will the eggs still develope or are they goners?

The hygrometer you bought, was it the Accurite? If so, the thermometer is fairly accurate, the hygrometers are a hit or miss...the hygrometer can be calibrated using the salt method. The thermometer can not be calibrated but if you have a calibrated lab thermometer you can check the accuracy of the Accurite thermometer..
BTW, eggs will start incubating at around 68°F. This is critical when shipped eggs are invovled, if you let them "rest" to settle, as some peeps recommend, then you just killed the embryos, unless they were shipped from a cold location to another cold location. It's best to put them in the bator with the turner off, to let them settle. This is especially true in the southern states, where temps this time of year are in the 80's. Traveling in a hot mail trailer is like being in an incubator.

 

[WVduckchick]

Check your thermometer and hygrometer. LG's are notoriously wrong, but not by that far! Maybe your meter has a probe and reads inside and outside temps, or maybe you were reading the humidity and not the temperature??

I leave eggs on my kitchen counter for at least a month (or 2) before using or boiling to feed back to the chickens. My house stays at least 70 degrees, and I've never opened a developing egg. I'm not sure of the exact temp to start development, but I'm sure its at least 95 degrees or so.