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Humidity control by weights
Sarah Meaders:
Hatch is over. Disappointed....55%. All that pipped hatched healthy chicks. But not the rate I was hoping for. A friend hatched my hens eggs and got a very successful hatch, so must still be incubation issues.
I weighed and candles only twice the entire time. The average weights were on target. Not sure what else I can do short of getting an expensive incubator which I can't do right now. :(
Thank you all for your input!
Tammy Tucker:
You can buy a digital thermometer / hydrometer off of E-bay for around $10 including shipping ,, thats what I paid for one last year ... I will never again trust just one single thermometer that comes with an incubator or the built in one .. I 'cooked' hatching eggs last year in my old incubator because a new thermometer I'd bought was off by 4 degrees ...
The new fan styfoam incubator I just bought > the thermometer on it is off by 5 degrees .. the instructions that came with it said that it was for 'reference' only to 'check' it with a 'known' correct thermometer (The hydrometer part is correct (matches what the digital says) but the thermometer is wrong and I just bought that incubator for $130 ...
I use the digital thermometer / hydrometer & another one in my fan incubator to keep a check on it .. and I used 3 to set up my still air hatcher .. and I have another digital thermometer/ hydrometer coming for it also just to have 2 for use in my new still air incubator that I'm useing just for a 'hatcher' and the thermometer on it seems to be right ... Its better to have multiple checks on the temperature than trust just one .... Just me ...
Tammy Tucker:
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Birdcrazy:
I bought a thermometer/hydrometer like this years ago for my 1502 Incubator. I usually place it on the top shelf in front of the water tray. I found by accident one day that moving the therm/Hydro around (sometimes just 3-4 inches) it would change the temp reading 1-2 degrees. The humidity reading would stay constant. I found another unit with a suction cup that I could stick on the glass door front and it would read different than if I placed it beside the unit on the shelf. I have come to the conclusion that temperatures can vary in the incubator depending on where you read it. So I usually try to find the hottest area and use that as a high reading so I do not "COOK THE EGGS".
Sarah Meaders:
Just ordered it! I guess I need to set another batch!
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