Currently I do not have a hygormeter in my incubator. Just the thermostat. I've been looking at different incubators on and off all day and I can't decide on one, lol. Too hard of a decision! I think that maybe I will try the one with only the turner, but not with the fan. It's less expensive than the other one, and it's still a Hovabator. I had a shipment of eggs arrive today, so I'll have no choice but to put them into my current incubator, but my next batch of eggs will go in the new bator. Maybe I should invest in a hygrometer for my current bator?
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I did pick one. I went with the Hovabator 1602N model, with just the egg turner, but decided to also purchase a digital thermostat with a built in hygrometer just for safe measure. I figure, it can't hurt, right? And the ad didn't say it included a thermostat, so I knew I had to have one, and a digital one just sounded easier to use.
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I did pick one. I went with the Hovabator 1602N model, with just the egg turner, but decided to also purchase a digital thermostat with a built in hygrometer just for safe measure. I figure, it can't hurt, right? And the ad didn't say it included a thermostat, so I knew I had to have one, and a digital one just sounded easier to use.
Good deal...isn't hatching fun? Indiana is probably different humidity-wise...we are always humid here in this part of TX...probably why I can get by without one...
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I did pick one. I went with the Hovabator 1602N model, with just the egg turner, but decided to also purchase a digital thermostat with a built in hygrometer just for safe measure. I figure, it can't hurt, right? And the ad didn't say it included a thermostat, so I knew I had to have one, and a digital one just sounded easier to use.
Good deal...isn't hatching fun? Indiana is probably different humidity-wise...we are always humid here in this part of TX...probably why I can get by without one...
Hatching is very fun, but not when out of a 100+ eggs, I only get one chick to live. I actually hatched two, but the second chick had it's intestines fall out. Very sad. We buried the baby in the flower garden. But since that hatch, I've had no luck. We've incubated eggs, and after waiting more than the 21 days it takes for them to hatch, and it was time to give up, we've cracked some of the eggs open to find nothing developed at all, or some developed a few days, and then died. And none of my hens have gone broody. I might get a few little fuzz butts if they did, but so far they aren't interested in raising kids, lol. However, we had a most strange occurrance this morning, one that left my 10 yr old daughter quite traumatized. As we've been collecting eggs from my birds, I've been putting them in an egg carton and placing them on top of the fridge so that the cats can't reach them. I don't refridgerate them cause we go through them too fast to even bother. Well, we collect eggs daily, so there's no way my birds could be incubating anything, but my daughter went to make some fried eggs this morning and when she went to crack open her last egg, she let out a scream. I came running to find the now partially fried egg on the skillet, the yolk full of blood, and a partially formed chick sitting in the center. I thought my daughter was going to faint, she turned ten shades of white. She was crying so hard it took me a good ten minutes to calm her down, and while I did, her older sister cleaned up the egg. I promised her that I would buy her a candler so she can check every egg BEFORE we cook with them, it was the only thing that would calm her down. She was crying and saying she took the baby's life, and felt horrible for her, but was so perplexed as to HOW it could have developed in the egg when we collect eggs daily! This baby was clearly about a week old. I don't know if it was alive still when she broke the egg open. I know my fridge is next to a heating vent, but the house temp is set to 69, so by the time any air would reach the top of the fridge, it wouldn't be that warm. I even waved my hand over the top of the fridge thinking maybe it was hotter up there, since heat rises, but it wasn't any warmer than the rest of the kitchen. It was quite an odd experience, and one that I don't EVER want to repeat. My daughter seems ok for now, but I don't know how she'll be the next time we go to cook with eggs...
wow sorry to hear that,i was told if you shake the egg when you collect them a couple good times there is no way they can develope.not sure if it is true,but never hurts to try
