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This morning I had 18 in the brooder box, 2 in the bator and 2 pipping. I set 36 eggs, took out 10 at week two, (from new hens I bought and they had not been with my roo long enough) Day 18 I had 26 eggs, So I guess my hatch rate is not too bad. My temps were all over. This time I'm setting...

At 4:30 I had two more and all of the eggs had little holes in them. My brooder box is set at 90 degrees. So far so good, I am setting aside more eggs to incubate as soon as these are out. Hatching eggs isn't so bad after all. Congrats to everyone who is hatching, Hang in there Newlywed your...

One chick this morning, two pipped eggs. What temp is the brooder box supposed to be?

I'm in for the long haul, I really don't expect anything until day 22 or 23. That's just my luck.

Day 20, I hear peeping, but no pips yet. I keep looking in the bator with my flashlight.

Egg turner is out, decided to use cut down egg cartons, sponges are in. Prayers have started.

I read that if you put the eggs in paper liners they can't roll all around and make a mess. Lockdown= take out egg turner, increase humidity, pray.

Day 17, Excitement, excitement. The brooder is ready. I am going to use cupcake paper liners instead of egg cartons. LOCKDOWN TOMORROW!

I candled tonite. I saw about 6 eggs with movement. I am sooooooo excited. Lock down on Friday.

I check my bator in the morning and afternoon and then again before bed. I'm going to candle again on monday.

My temps have been going up and down. I can't seem to get it steady. Little Giant Incubator Fan Egg Turner Egg-o-metor http://incubatorwarehouse.com/index.php/eggometer.html Accutemp digital thermometer Smithfield Digital Hydrometor (sp) You would think with all of this technology it would...

Got my fan today hooked it up and also added the egg-mometer. Temps are all over the place. But the fan should take care of that. I'm waiting until day 7 to candle.

Quote: Maybe it's the hand weights. I graduated to 6lbs weights so I can ue my 4 lbser to seal the bator. Sorry it's a biggest loser thing. The humidity in the room they are in is at about 40%.

Temps are holding. I have not opened the bator since yesterday morning. I have two 4. lb hand weights on the top at two of the corners making a nice tight seal. Humidity is 55 but doubt it's really true, haven't added water since day monday. I'm a pretty happy camper at this point in time. Will...

Got home around 7pm. Temps are all over. Smithfield thermometer digital says 102, two small mercury thermometers say 99.5, wired accutemp says 101 The smithfield sits closer to the heating element, the wire probe is stuck to the middle of the plastic sheet between the two mercury thermometers...

So glad I'm not the only nervous nellie. When I got up this morning my temps were down to 88. They were 99 when I went to bed. Raised them up and they stayed constant for a couple of hours this morning. Hope all goes well today. My digital wired thermostat will give me the hi and low temps for...

I set my first batch of eggs today. I'm using a Little Giant bator with the optional egg turner, for temps I've gone into overkill: I have two mercury thermometers, one remote digital with a wire, one digital with humidity reader in the bator. All of them are off from each other by 2-3...