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I usually let the eggs sit pointy side down on shipped eggs to let the air sacs stabilize if they've been jumbled. For eggs from your own birds, store them pointy side down in your cartons or egg turner and either let the turner do it's job or move them back and forth every once in a while. You...

Your welcome, but remember to check calibration on any hygrometers and thermometers you buy. There are plenty of tutorials online on how to do it. It won't be as exact as having them calibrated in a lab, but it will let you know how far off they for the most part.

It will be a month or two before I have any results. Apparently I have to wait for my relay to be sent from Omron in Japan. Lol, I couldn't find any place near me that sold SSRs at all. Every place I went to said they either didn't sell them at all, or it would be several weeks to get one. The...

Sounds like your humidity might be way high with three sponges and that much water. Did you try the salt paste calibration on your hygrometers?

Here in Ohio, we now have a couple different types of permits you can get for bobwhites. One allows you to raise them, another let's you raise and sell them, and yet another to raise and release them. Without a permit, you aren't even supposed to possess them at all.

To prevent freezing, I just use an aquarium heater. You just have to be sure that the water level always covers the heater. I'm using a water system I built myself with a five gallon bucket pvc tubes and chicken cups. Plenty of room to dro a small aquarium heater in.

That is true. After being in an incubator for even a couple days, I wouldn't chance eating them.

I'm getting the PID for free from my college and will be using an Omron SSR. Omron isn't top end, but they are pretty decent quality wise. The PID will be an Allan Bradley or an Omron as well.

If the digital thermostat isn't a proportional or PID type, it is using a "bang bang" type relay to switch on and off power to the heater. That means the heater gets the max power whenever it is on, so it will heat up pretty fast. Then after the power turns off it is still emitting the residual...

The type of temperature sensor your controller is using may have issues detecting accurately due to humidity, or the controller itself may not be calibrated properly. The temp controller I'm using is using a thermistor with a 50 millisecond response time. The other one I worked with was using a...

It has been a strange winter. I was at a place a week ago and the chukar were laying eggs in a flight pen with just natural light. Friends of mine are seeing their quail laying already with no artificial light.

Where I am, pheasants and quail have pretty much disappeared due to farming practices and lack of habitat. Now predator levels have sky rocketed, so any releases don't last long. You can get different permits here though. I don't remember all the names but you can get one to keep them in pens. A...

Depending on where you live, it may not be legal for you to do that. If it is, you usually have to have a permit, inspections, and testing to do it.

I always keep only a single male in a pen with some hens. Unless you've got a huge aviary and plenty of hiding spots, the males always seem to pick fights. I was keeping one male with ten females...Unfortunely the last male I kept was sterile, so I couldn't hatch any of my own eggs.