what should i do with my temp at 39?degres c not farenhite

[gavbarker]

Hi i have a cheapish incubator and the turning nob for the temprature is not perfect as it was damaged in posting i had the eggs at 37 nmost of the time but the last half of the hatch it have been up to 39 i dont realy want to try and change it incase i doe it too much either way and loose the chicks they have been makeing progress at this temprature but im on my last 3 days now will they be ok or is this serious?

 

[kstaven]

Your ideal is 37.5c so you are not that far out. If it is a still air incubator(no fan) your temperature is just about perfect. Either way I would leave it alone.

Time to increase your humidity and stop turning eggs. This close to hatch temperatures will spike in a small incubator. That is nothing unusual.

 

[gavbarker]

I have put another tub of water in the incubator to increase the humidity its a fan assisted incubator. The good news it that when i put the extra water in it has brought the temp down to 37 exact so im happy with that but i was just seting up the cage for when they hatch but the heat pad doesnt work so thats another job lol.

 

[kstaven]

It always works that way. How do you control brooding heat with a heating pad?

Or allow cool spots for chicks to move to when they need it?

Normally the brooder bulb burns out just when you need it too.

 

[gavbarker]

Well i dernt put a heat bulb in whe brooder pen as its in the spare room and im going to be working a lot of the time and im going to be thinking it will set something on fire i get really paronoid about things like that i know its silly. So i have got the heat pad and im puting beding on it so it will heat up i tested it last night and it wasnt warm enough so iv got some thiner beding and im hopeing that will be just right later on when i try it out. I would have a heat lamp if it could go in a shed that iv orderd but its takeing too long to come through so im going to have to do this i hope they will be ok and also the pad it less that half of the cages floor space so they will have plenty of room to get off the heat.