Posts by mulia24

In my opinion, if you have very spacious space to free range, you can put the mom with her baby outside with other, since they have no fight to do over thing. But, if you don't have super spacious space, keep the hen with her baby...

wow, congratulation.. :)   keep it closed and running smooth. Don't forget to check the humidity too, they need high enough humidity at the end of incubation days..   and don't forget to share the pics.. :)  good...

I would suggest you to move the nestbox together with the hen and eggs at night to a better place like room and provide it with a heater, simple cheap heater will do, make sure to check the safety of heater electricity  like cable...

have you get the humidity high enough? and not to open and open the bator over and over? raise the humidity and keep it above 70% since they seemed to have a problem in releasing themselves from their former home. good luck for you.

well, I only own a homemade bator.. in my experience, all you need to do is raising humidity to above 60% and not to disturb the eggs anymore like candling or turning it over and wait for those little fluffy out of their shield....

well, for the calibration, several years ago, I did read about it, for humidity, I did wrap my thermohygrometer with wet towel, if your thermohygro get above 90%, it means your thermohygro show real humidity, but if it's lower, it...

Hi Imp, thanks for sharing.. :) huff... we do have ditch to cover rain water... but... everytime rain happen, the water level in drain always so high, it means that water that flow through the ditch isn't so smooth as water that...

Several peoples already posting their experiences with cracked eggs, some did make it, but the other didn't make it. From what I read, they mostly use wax, like you did the last time. At least you did try although it failed. Wish...

open plugs to let the 'juicy air' out so the humidity level will decrease soon. but be aware for the temperature fluctuation that will occur caused by that action.   try to minimize temperature swing too fast.  

Thanks for the reply Danierra. :) hmm... it's been more than 20 years I lived here and I've never seen there are such process here. There is no old asphalt full dumping process, it means, in the few years, my house will become lower...