Uh oh! How hot can an get incubator be? HELP

[ticks]

I am on day three with my turkey eggs.
I got the hygromter/thermometer mx and put it in. The thermomter that I have right now says 100-100.5. The new ones say 115 and 125. Is this a mistake on the new thermometers part or have I killed my eggs?

 

[FrenchHen]

Calibrate the thermometers with boiling water or ice water. You'll be able to tell which one's off

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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How do you do that?

 

[Feathers Acres]

Well is your current one digital or one that came with the bator, the ones with the red liquid (Forgot what its called) are usualy right on, I find that my digital one is always off by about 2 degrees.

 

[ticks]

Well, the one that I used was the one that came with the turner I used both that one and the one that came with the bator and I got a good temp. I put it a large indoor/outdoor one and both are reading well over 100.

 

[FrenchHen]

Put the tip or bulb of the thermometer into boiling water for 60 seconds. It should read 212 degrees.
Ice water (mostly ice with a teeny bit of water) should read just above 32.
It can give you an idea of what temp you have.
If it's an atmospheric thermometer with no tip or bulb...I can't help you calibrate
That's the food handler's way of testing.

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

Thats a BIG difference....

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

My incubator spiked to over 110 the other day but I candled and somehow they are all still alive, so there is hope

 

[ticks]

Come to think of it, when I put them in the bator they were around 85-9ish
The house is only 70ish. So I think those are wrong.