Incubator questions

[rosaroca]

I am apparently very incubator impaired. Lol I have a Brisnea Mini Eco and find it very hard to get the temp right and even when I do it changes all the time from 99-106 degrees. I also have a Magicfly Digital Mini and for some reason every time I take the top off to candle an egg or whatever, I can’t get the lid back on right so that the turner works. Any advice?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I am apparently very incubator impaired. Lol I have a Brisnea Mini Eco and find it very hard to get the temp right and even when I do it changes all the time from 99-106 degrees. I also have a Magicfly Digital Mini and for some reason every time I take the top off to candle an egg or whatever, I can’t get the lid back on right so that the turner works. Any advice?

I'm not familiar with that incubator but 106 will quickly kill an embryo.

 

[rosaroca]

I'm not familiar with that incubator but 106 will quickly kill an embryo.

Yeah. Luckily I didn’t have eggs in it yet. I hadn’t used it for awhile and was checking it before adding eggs

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That's good to hear. With some incubators with finicky controls and low wattage heat elements they can be all over the board without something inside as a heat sink, like eggs.

 

[rosaroca]

That's good to hear. With some incubators with finicky controls and low wattage heat elements they can be all over the board without something inside as a heat sink, like eggs.

Really? So it might have fluctuated so much because there were no eggs in it?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Possibly. I'm not there so I really can't reliably assess the situation.
The incubators I described can fluctuate. A heat sink like bricks or water bottle or eggs will help regulate temperature because they are holding heat.

 

[rosaroca]

Possibly. I'm not there so I really can't reliably assess the situation.
The incubators I described can fluctuate. A heat sink like bricks or water bottle or eggs will help regulate temperature because they are holding heat.

good to know. Thank you so much. I’ll try it again with a water bottle before I try eggs in it