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2ND FINDING ** UPDATE - When incubator is completely dry it will read always at 48% because its not functioning properly. Once some moisture is added then it functions properly. Upon reading instructions again for the 100th time, it actually even mentions it in the instructions. Little Giant...

HOW TO: CALIBRATE A HYGROMETER (aka; Salt Test) CALIBRATING A HYGROMETER LINK Salt Calibration or / Salt Test Salt will maintain an exact humidity of 75% in a sealed environment! Because of the delicate design of hygrometers, it is easy for them to become inaccurate (e.g. with shipping or just...

I am in Quesnel, BC CANADA. It is so so strange because BOTH incubators are reading the exact same. LOL! they are side by side in the same room etc. and they are the exact same incubator as well. HA!

Salt test? Please clarify. Thank you so much! :)

oh dear. I do not have a room on it's own. The room I would have used is occupied by a guest. I really hope the incubator dry at 48% is ok. Thank you for your advice.

Hello everyone, I am wanting to do a Dry Incubation Method this time around. * Dry Incubation HIGH RESTING HUMIDITY Percentage * My incubators have been plugged in for 72 hours, dry, no water: > Temp holds steady at 99.1 to 99.5 on both incubators. > Humidity holds steady at 48% on both...

Thank you. So when I "cross them back" to a "blue egg layer (legbar)" should it be: A: Sapphire Rooster OVER Cream Legbar Hen? OR B: Cream Legbar Rooster OVER Sapphire Hen?

Hello everyone, I am looking to breed my Cream Legbar Rooster over my White Leghorn Hens. I would like to know what colored egg layer I might end up with? Would it be blue or light blue? IF it was light blue, and I wanted to make them more blue, then what would I breed those pullets back to? I...

RESULTS ARE IN! ** E-COLI INFECTION ** Point Of Entry Umbilicus - Early Mortality (Omphalitis) aka "Mushy Chick Disease, Navel infection, Yolk Sac Infection" (it goes by many names) My experience was as follows: Within 1 day of having day old poults - 2 died, then another, then 2 more, AND it...

AWAITING UPDATES FROM ANIMAL HEALTHCARE CENTRE. WILL POST UPDATED RESULTS AT THE TOP OF THIS FEED.

I was told literally by the hatchery to have it at 95, then lower to 90 and so on, go down 5 degrees as necessary. How odd.

Day olds when I got them. Had them 1.5 days > 2 died Next day > 1 more died (I wrote all this up top) See pics.

Hello R2Elk.I did have infectious cryoza, from birds I got from someone (never doing that again). However, these chicks were not near that coop - I have many, and I have not had chickens for quite some time, and everything I own feeders etc, is either new or disinfected.

OH, god! I am going to read up on this. I am sending a bird off now.

I have never heard of a "HOT SPOT" - this is very interesting. So the rest of the room could be typical temperature or even an outside temperature, but so long as they have a "hot spot" to go under this is ok? I guess it would be similar to a turkey hen (as the hot spot) and being outside. So...