MomFoldingLaundry
Songster
- Oct 16, 2020
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I’ve been trying to diagnose my original, rinky dink incubator all afternoon. Temperature gauges all say that it runs VERY cool. Like, as low as 94 degrees in spots. If I set it to 102 degrees, I can get temperatures inside to measure 99.5, but I am scared to set it that high in case it spikes.
So I was wondering why my last hatch was so successful.
After hours of messing around, I realized that if I put the incubator in the foam insulation it came with (recommended for colder temperatures) the heat is a lot closer to what it says on the digital read out.
Funny thing? My last hatch, I kept that incubator in our bedroom, but had a towel over both it and the dehumidifier the whole time, in order to stop the flashing light from keeping me awake at night! HAH!
That towel, unbeknownst to me, probably raised the incubator’s temperature that extra degree or two it needed to hatch more than 50% of the eggs.
It is so crazy the stuff one learns, trying to get a system down for hatching eggs. It really is an art more than a science.
Happy hatching!
So I was wondering why my last hatch was so successful.
After hours of messing around, I realized that if I put the incubator in the foam insulation it came with (recommended for colder temperatures) the heat is a lot closer to what it says on the digital read out.
Funny thing? My last hatch, I kept that incubator in our bedroom, but had a towel over both it and the dehumidifier the whole time, in order to stop the flashing light from keeping me awake at night! HAH!
That towel, unbeknownst to me, probably raised the incubator’s temperature that extra degree or two it needed to hatch more than 50% of the eggs.
It is so crazy the stuff one learns, trying to get a system down for hatching eggs. It really is an art more than a science.
Happy hatching!