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    Brinsea Mini Advance Periodic Cooling?

    Thank you!
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    Brinsea Mini Advance Periodic Cooling?

    I have the first version of the Brinsea Mini Advance incubator. The instruction manual suggests turning on periodic cooling on Day 7 and turn it off on Day 18. I am wondering if you follow the instructions and do that, or do you turn it on starting Day 1, or not at all? Just curious what other...
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    Bay Area BYCers!

    Found this thread from a search so I don't know if it has been posted elsewhere...but where can I buy eggs for hatching? We have a small Brinsea that fits only 7 eggs so that's all I need. For education so any breed ok. I live in alameda (east bay). Thanks!
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    What should I do?!

    Check out this thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1081034/hands-on-hatching-and-help
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    Which incubator?

    I have the Brinsea Mini Advance. It is not cheap (USD180) but I compared it with the cheaper stuff at the store and found that when you add up all the "extra" components you can buy to add on to the cheaper, manual, incubator to make it automatic, the price was not that much different. I have...
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    Calibrating my incubator

    When I filled only one of the wells (simulating humidity on days 1-17), the humidity was 50%. When I filled both the wells (simulating lock down), it was 60%. There doesn't seem to be a way for me to run the humidity any higher than 60% because the only way to adjust the humidity in the...
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    Calibrating my incubator

    I have a Brinsea Mini Advance. The last hatch I did the chicks hatched a few days early and 2 died after lockdown, so I decided to check the temp. I purchased an inexpensive terrarium temp/humidity meter, popped it into my empty incubator, filled one of the two wells with water, set it to 99.5F...
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    Hands on hatching and help

    Thanks. It made me sad to see that little chick all ready to hatch, somehow unable to get out of its shell. I just bought a mini combo humidity and temperature sensor to put in my incubator to test temp. I have a suspicion it is calibrated incorrectly. Trying to talk myself out of a 3rd batch...
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    Hands on hatching and help

    ps I'm now planning my 3rd hatch. How many times do I have to do this before it becomes an addiction?
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    Hands on hatching and help

    I did the eggtopsy just now. The egg with the weird floating stuff was clearly rotten, but the other egg in which it was hard to see....there was a perfectly formed chick inside, with its little beak poking out of the membrane, stuck in that position. I never saw a pip in the shell, either by...
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    Hands on hatching and help

    I candled the eggs. In one of them I can still see what looks like blood vessels but I also see clumps of stuff floating around and the whole mass seems to move a lot when I wiggle the egg. The chick also looks too small for the size of the shell. Looks dead...is it? The other one I see a large...
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    Hands on hatching and help

    Here's the Buff Orpington I helped out of its shell yesterday morning.
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    Hands on hatching and help

    Need some advice! I set my eggs March 4 at 7pm. Today is March 26 7am. This is day 22 right? Just checking because I'm a little fuzzy how you count the days. I have 2 eggs that are unpipped. Is it too early to take them out to candle? I had 5 eggs in there, the others hatched 24-36 hours ago...
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    Hands on hatching and help

    I know right? What huge feet! Follow up question: The remaining 2 eggs haven't even pipped. Do I remove the newly hatched chick now while I still can, or wait till it's dry? The reason I am itching to take it out is that I don't want to open the lid again once the others have pipped and I also...
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    Hands on hatching and help

    It hatched!!!!
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