KC'S
03-11-2009, 06:47 PM
Last year I incubated some duck eggs for the first time. My ducks will drop them all over the yard so I picked up forty and put them in the incubator. I used a Brower tophatch and had the worst time keeping the temp in check. Some of you might remember me asking if any of you had that problem. Anyway out of forty eggs twelve hatched. Which I don’t think was too bad since I didn’t know how old some of the eggs were and the temp was so off.
Anyway this year I bought two Hovabators with the fan for my goose eggs. They have been keeping the temp within two degrees on the glass bulb thermometer. It drops to just about 98 and then turns on and at just about 100 shuts off!
The thing is I really don’t know what the temp is, because I have three different Thermometers in it (glass bulb that came with the incubator, Sunbeam metal prong, and a Springfield digital one) all three show a different temp. I have them on top off the goose eggs between the middle and the side at the same spot. I’ve been going by the glass bulb one and it’s between 98-100. The other two thermometer show 102 and 95. Do you think the glass bulb one is the most accurate? I started them on March 4th and out of 30 only two were clear last night. The rest all showed the embryo and veins but some were more developed then others. Also when I candle them at night I move the ones on the outside into the middle, do any of you do this. And I read someplace that they should cool for 15 minutes a day which I thought happens when I candle them. Which to me made sense because when the goose gets off to eat I would think they cool some. Although my girls that are sitting don’t eat very much anymore and are sitting 24/7.
So how many of you go by the glass bulb thermometer and how does that work for you?
Cally
Anyway this year I bought two Hovabators with the fan for my goose eggs. They have been keeping the temp within two degrees on the glass bulb thermometer. It drops to just about 98 and then turns on and at just about 100 shuts off!
The thing is I really don’t know what the temp is, because I have three different Thermometers in it (glass bulb that came with the incubator, Sunbeam metal prong, and a Springfield digital one) all three show a different temp. I have them on top off the goose eggs between the middle and the side at the same spot. I’ve been going by the glass bulb one and it’s between 98-100. The other two thermometer show 102 and 95. Do you think the glass bulb one is the most accurate? I started them on March 4th and out of 30 only two were clear last night. The rest all showed the embryo and veins but some were more developed then others. Also when I candle them at night I move the ones on the outside into the middle, do any of you do this. And I read someplace that they should cool for 15 minutes a day which I thought happens when I candle them. Which to me made sense because when the goose gets off to eat I would think they cool some. Although my girls that are sitting don’t eat very much anymore and are sitting 24/7.
So how many of you go by the glass bulb thermometer and how does that work for you?
Cally