savannahRoos22
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- Oct 13, 2017
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I have a candy thermometer, a incubating one that came with it, and a nice digital home one with humidity all in the incubator. They are all so different! I will get a meat thermometer today too. The expensive home one is at 104 degrees. The candy is at 90 degrees. and The incubator one is at 87 degrees. Ahhhh! Im so sad and so scared. I havent set the eggs yet, but I really need to as soon as possible. I need to put my eggs in before they lose fertility! How can I do this? Why? What can I do!
The last time I incubated eggs, it was 70 button quail and I did extensive studies on egg hatching, and almost everything about it. 2 pipped the shell and died halfway, 4 were alive in the shell but very late in hatch date and then all died, 2 hatched, dried off, and but died later, and so so so many died inside the shell. I think the whole time, my thermometer was off. I was using the one that came with my incubator. I knew that temperature was a humongously important detail. But I wasn't able to get another thermometer to see if it was accurate because I was told that the one I had is most likely perfect. I'm pretty sure the hatch rates and bad health in the chicks was because it was overheated maybe? One of the two chicks had leg and toe problems, that's why I think it was a higher temp than it should have been.And also, I did have it at 99.5 when it should have been at 101 because it is a still air incubator. I got my information from a bad source. I realize I made mistakes. This time I want and NEED the temp right. I will not set any eggs in until it is, and they might go bad in fertility soon.
This time, I have invested in a nice one. But I'm having problems knowing which one is right.
Read below posts if you can.
The last time I incubated eggs, it was 70 button quail and I did extensive studies on egg hatching, and almost everything about it. 2 pipped the shell and died halfway, 4 were alive in the shell but very late in hatch date and then all died, 2 hatched, dried off, and but died later, and so so so many died inside the shell. I think the whole time, my thermometer was off. I was using the one that came with my incubator. I knew that temperature was a humongously important detail. But I wasn't able to get another thermometer to see if it was accurate because I was told that the one I had is most likely perfect. I'm pretty sure the hatch rates and bad health in the chicks was because it was overheated maybe? One of the two chicks had leg and toe problems, that's why I think it was a higher temp than it should have been.And also, I did have it at 99.5 when it should have been at 101 because it is a still air incubator. I got my information from a bad source. I realize I made mistakes. This time I want and NEED the temp right. I will not set any eggs in until it is, and they might go bad in fertility soon.
This time, I have invested in a nice one. But I'm having problems knowing which one is right.
Read below posts if you can.
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