Posts by woodprairie

   I have built a fridge incubator.  No eggs in it yet.  Coming in about 3-4 days.  Holds temp very well.  I will get thermal mass in there like you recommend.  But I am still worried about the...

Hi, can I join you?  Here is my bator journal:  started 3 weeks ago I am going to try to do a continuous hatch in my little giant styro bator, .  got it stabilized 2 days ago, put the eggs in but now it has gone whacky...

The sweater plus down vest draped over the incubator totally solved my temp swing problem .  Thank you!!!!!!

Here is my report:  I incubated 41 eggs.26 were mailorder.  Of those  mailorder ones 11 were infertile or never started to develop (I opened them at day 24)6 were fully formed but never pipped.9 hatched.  Of these,...

I have 2 pipped!

I have the reservoirs full of water and haven't opened the incubator and have the holes sealed.  Hope the humidity is good enough.

I am in lockdown and have a camera in the incubator:http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hatching-chickens1and I hear one peeping.  Question: the thermometer reads lower because the egg turner is gone and the eggs are lower.  should I...

but the hatch worked ok?

QUESTION -------It is getting warmer in my office, as it gets warmer outside, and my incubator temp goes up 4 or 5 tenths of a degree.  What is going on?  I thought a thermostat was a thermostat.  Is this a problem? ...

I set a batch in the incubator on Friday April 15.  I took some of my own araucauna/dominique/banty cross green eggs, one of my neighbors barred rock/silky eggs, and a pile of partridge wyandottes I bought here on auction. ...