Recent content by dbasberg

Wow, love the cheat sheet! Thanks for the words of encouragement. As it happens, I only need to use the incubator once a year. Next year I hope to do much better. This forum is great and I thank the wonderful people that share their knowledge. Doug Quote:

I have learned a lot from your replies. First, I did not measure humidity. I just kept the bottom channels full of water as the instructions with the incubator suggested. The next mistake was I put all the eggs in the automatic turner with the wide end down and the pointed end up. The...

I collected 41 eddgs over 5 days and kept them at 50F. Then I started the incubator on 4/29/2011 at 99.5F. The first chick hatched 5/20/2011. I kept water in the bottom troughs and lowered the thermostat back to 99.5 after seeing it at 101 for a day. I got 8 chicks hatching over a three day...