Incubator issues

[Lisab]

I have a styrofoam incubator, coil under the top, wire bottom, large window...
I set it up with a simple thermometer I bought at the grain store. Got 1 egg of the last batch to hatch.
So, I went and bought a thermometer that tells temp and humidity and runs on battery...it says my temp in my incubator was 90 while the other was saying 99.5....anyway, I got the temp to 101.0 and had it there all day yesterday...woke this morning and it was now reading 97.4!!! I played with controls and have it to 100 seems the bator won't keep temp.

I know it isn't the thermometer as the other one was doing same last time...raising lowering raising lowering.... weird eggs???? broken incubator?? Will more than one hatch this time????

Lisab

 

[robin416]

Where is your incubator located? Its possible that its in an area that the temp is dropping quite a bit at night and these little styro jobs can not keep up.

You might also have a bad wafer, they are pretty inexpensive and easy to replace but you won't be able to do that now unless you have a hatcher that you can move the eggs to while the bator restabilizes.