Thanks for the feedback everyone!
cielo - I would not have adjusted anything, but somebody else got to my 'bator first and thought they new better than Brinsea. So I've been trying to get it back to the right temp. It is frustrating to have three thermometers with different three readings!
I left things alone for the first 12 hours to give the eggs a chance to warm up. I have then been carefully adjusting. I think I have it right now. I think. The glass reads 100 every time I look at it in any position. The digital reads either 100.4 in the high or 99.5 in the low position. The digital kept falling over in the egg tray so I hung it from the fan guard. It now hangs just above the eggs. Somebody tell me if I'm cooking my eggs!
jmc - You are correct. I have all the eggs on their sides. I was trying to spread them out to allow better air circulation.
So is egg position really that crucial? Other than pointy end slightly down and round end slightly up that is. My first hatch was in a Brinsea Mini. All eggs are on their sides. The Mini rolls them around a center core - the rolling causes the round end to go slightly up. In the nest boxes I have never seen an egg in any position other than on it's side. But for 'bators that alternately tilt eggs from side to side, do the eggs really have to be vertical rather than horizontal? I guess I better change their orientation!
Thanks!
cielo - I would not have adjusted anything, but somebody else got to my 'bator first and thought they new better than Brinsea. So I've been trying to get it back to the right temp. It is frustrating to have three thermometers with different three readings!
I left things alone for the first 12 hours to give the eggs a chance to warm up. I have then been carefully adjusting. I think I have it right now. I think. The glass reads 100 every time I look at it in any position. The digital reads either 100.4 in the high or 99.5 in the low position. The digital kept falling over in the egg tray so I hung it from the fan guard. It now hangs just above the eggs. Somebody tell me if I'm cooking my eggs!
jmc - You are correct. I have all the eggs on their sides. I was trying to spread them out to allow better air circulation.
So is egg position really that crucial? Other than pointy end slightly down and round end slightly up that is. My first hatch was in a Brinsea Mini. All eggs are on their sides. The Mini rolls them around a center core - the rolling causes the round end to go slightly up. In the nest boxes I have never seen an egg in any position other than on it's side. But for 'bators that alternately tilt eggs from side to side, do the eggs really have to be vertical rather than horizontal? I guess I better change their orientation!
Thanks!
