Quote Originally Posted by mooingtricycle View Post
Had no issues with it this year. Lots of people follow this method. I also used Water bottles in the incubator, to hold a stable temperature. The Thermostat barely fluctuated, and was only on REALLY after i would open the bator. Id have to say, with my experience this year incubating three clutches, and the one last year, with the probe outside the box, and no water bottles, this was the much more stable thus far for my incubation stuff.

I also had a SECONDARY probe in the eggboxes, that measured the temperatures, and they remained SPOT ON.

Every single egg hatched. and all the babies came out healthy!
the water bottles no doubt made your temps stable.
i dont put my probe in the egg box.