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Temperature during incubation

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i have four eggs in my hovabator right now, and im trying to incubate them as males but i cant get the temp to 90, it stays at 92 is that a bad problem or is it close enough? Also if one clutch is fairly new, but i want females, can i remove them from the 90 degree incubator and place them where its 80? or will moving them now b dangerous?
 
My male incubator goes form 89-90, it has hit 91 a couple of times from my high/low temp reader. I have only incubated 2 eggs for male and they hatched so I put 4 more in last week when they were laid.

If the eggs you want to be female are in the 90, I would not move them and even if you did they may still wind up male even if you drop them to the 80's depending on how many days they have been at 90+.

I would be afraid the drastic temp change would cause abnormalities in the babies and possibly kill the developing embryo altogether.
 
Avi, I wouldn't move the eggs. I follow RT incubation temp reconmendations for my first three temps because I was unaware of the dangers until later. Of the six eggs 5 hatched ok but the sixth one was badly deformed. I think it was the temp changes during the incubation. 1 out 6 may not sound that bad at first but it just so happen that one was the orangest of the season. If you have got four eggs so far you will probally get more I would wait till then to do females. Good Luck.
 
what about the temp being at 92? i cant get it lower bc of the temp in my house. is that denagerous for the eggs?
 
Are the eggs in an incubator? What are your house temps? I personally would not go above 91 and really 90. If your house temps are anything below 90 then the eggs should be able to be at 90 in an incubator with a thermostat.
 
The temp being 92 is a big problem. I would not let it go past 90. At high temps like eggs rarely hatch and deformities increase. If they do hatch more or less they’ll be females that are very aggressive what are called ‘hot females’. As far as cooling them down the room temps will have to be lowered. You can put them in the incubator and use a fan to try and cool the room.

As previous post said I would not lower them to 80. It would be more detrimental to the developing embryo.
 
what about the temp being at 92? i cant get it lower bc of the temp in my house. is that denagerous for the eggs?
 
Tang said:
what about the temp being at 92? i cant get it lower bc of the temp in my house. is that denagerous for the eggs?
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They just answered that question.

Is your house 92°? Maybe an air conditioner would be a good investment. If the house is less than 92° then you should be able to get the incubator temps down.
 
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