Temps on incubator

[CrazyChickenLady78]

Hello Poultry Lovers of all kinds!!
Question... ok so I have a baby that hatched 1 day early and everything is good and fluffing out, but because I keep my home cooler I jumped the temp up on incubator to 102 degrees..so my question is is the baby that hatch ok in the 102 degree incubator while the other are trying to hatch? Or do I need to remove baby now and put it under the heat lamp by itself?

 

[Dr Evy]

The baby will be fine in the incubator until the rest hatch. However, 102°F is too high. You’re risking killing the rest with that temp. If possible, I’d try to get it back down to 99.5°F.
Edit to add: do you have a calibrated thermometer in the incubator? Or are you just reading what the incubator says?

 

[CrazyChickenLady78]

The baby will be fine in the incubator until the rest hatch. However, 102°F is too high. You’re risking killing the rest with that temp. If possible, I’d try to get it back down to 99.5°F.
Edit to add: do you have a calibrated thermometer in the incubator? Or are you just reading what the incubator says?

Dr. Evy
My mommy instincts told me to turn heat down and I did too 100 and all was good and fine!! And the incubator in have has a digital displayed temp on it. So I was just reading what the incubator said.

 

[Susan Skylark]

Get a separate thermometer hygrometer or three! Incubators aren’t very honest! I had one running a degree cold and pushed back hatching by 2 days and another running 107 (no eggs in it yet!) that insisted it was 99.5! You’ll do amazing things for your hatching success with a $10 investment (the reptile enclosure ones work fine but get several and make sure they tend to agree!).