Whats the best temreture for a chicken egg?

[SilkieNewbie!]

This is a pretty dumb question but after looking online for tips ive found people saying completely diffrent things from 22 C to 60 C

 

[Ridgerunner]

What do you want to do with the egg? Store it, hatch it, or cook it?

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Chicken eggs...

in a still air incubator with no fan... 102F or 38.8 Celsius.

In forced air bator with a fan... 100F... or 37.8 Celsius.

I keep humidity at 40% days 1-18, raise to 60-65% day 18 through hatch.

I hatched hundreds of eggs... this accurate information.

Happy hatching!

 

[EggSighted4Life]

What do you want to do with the egg? Store it, hatch it, or cook it?

I also wondered that but noticed it was in the incubation section.

 

[SilkieNewbie!]

Chicken eggs...

in a still air incubator with no fan... 102F or 38.8 Celsius.

In forced air bator with a fan... 100F... or 37.8 Celsius.

I keep humidity at 40% days 1-18, raise to 60-65% day 18 through hatch.

I hatched hundreds of eggs... this accurate information.

Happy hatching!

Thank you!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Yeah, that 60 C threw me off, that's 140 F.

For storing eggs for incubation the ideal temperature is 55 F or about 13 C. Very few of us come close, I usually store mine around 75 F or 24C as that is room temperature and I still usually get good hatches.

In a still air incubator the most often recommended temperature is 101.5 F or 38.6 C taken at the top of the eggs. Since warm air rises where you take the temperature is important in a still air.

In a forced air it should not matter where you take the temperature since the air is stirred up. 99.5 F or 37.5 is usually recommended.

If you are off a few tenths of a degree C it doesn't matter that much, you should still get a good hatch, at least up to a point. If the incubation temperature is a little warm they will likely hatch early, if cool they can hatch later.

 

[Shamo Hybrid]

What about temperature spikes? At which temperature will an egg NOT survived if it hit it and sustained for, say, a couple of minutes? Like if temperature spiked to 106 degrees.... at how many minutes with that temperature does an egg get killed, etc?

 

[EggSighted4Life]

I think I had a 106 spike in my still air... can't remember at point of incubation, but that will have an impact as to what the embryo can tolerate before it expires. Life has a way!

I had a 50% hatch rate which is very low for me. I'm sure it was more than just a few minutes.

With temp drops for several hours due to power outage midway through incubation, I experienced bent toe type deformities. Can't recall hatch rate for that one.

 

[ariri30]

Chicken eggs...

in a still air incubator with no fan... 102F or 38.8 Celsius.

In forced air bator with a fan... 100F... or 37.8 Celsius.

I keep humidity at 40% days 1-18, raise to 60-65% day 18 through hatch.

I hatched hundreds of eggs... this accurate information.

Happy hatching!

Thanks! I have been keeping mine at 37 since Sunday. I just changed it to 38.8. I hope I didn’t do any damage. My first try in a home made incubator with eggs bought at a local farm market fertilizer eggs. I hope they’ll work