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    What Incubater Should I get?

    How many eggs do you want to hold. My first incubator was one of those yellow Chinese no-name incubators. It held 48 eggs, came with an automatic egg-turner and was well-under $100 dollars. My quail hatching rate for mail order eggs was a little over 50%. I am now on day 17 of a bantam hatch. My...
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    When one set of incubator eggs is a week behind the others.

    Thanks for your reply. The eggs are indeed a fresh set, arriving in just two days. The original set showed up 10! days after Priority Mailing from Ohio to Virginia, and I didn't even bother setting those.
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    Foreign made yellow incubators

    Yes, you can remove the turner for lockdown. You just need to be careful not to drop your eggs when lifting it out, as it can get a little wobbly. While I suppose you could move the eggs first, I just take out the turner, eggs and all, and then carefully lay the eggs back in the incubator.
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    Hatching eggs on ebay

    I had good success with the quail eggs I purchased on eBay last year, and have three sets of eBay bantam chicken eggs in my incubator right now. Like any buying forum, there are good and bad sellers. But it's not as hard to tell them apart as you might think. You can look at a seller's feedback...
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    When one set of incubator eggs is a week behind the others.

    I recently purchased three different breeds of bantam eggs from three different breeders. Because of a USPS foul up (or fowl-up?!) the Serama eggs had to be reshipped and were set in the incubator a week later than the rest. I am unsure what I should do when it's time to remove the automatic...
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    Chris From Virginia Attempting A Bantam Hatch

    Greetings all. After a successful foray into quail hatching last year, I'm moving up to bantam chickens. In an attempt to hedge my bets, I purchased eggs of three different breeds from three different breeders. The breeds are: Serama, Grey Japanese, and Pile Old English. If all goes as planned...
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