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    Janoel Digital Automatic Turner - 48 egg - New Version ?

    I saved a plastic lolly tin the kids once had that is just the right height to sit in on the tray with the eggs, I fill it with water to help 'up' the humidity at lockdown. Works a treat. I was using coffee cups but had a chick fall in and go for a swim right after hatch! (That was one time I...
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    HELP!!!!

    We once lost power for 18 hours, temps in the bators dropped to 79F, we did lose all bar 1 of the (7 dozen, sigh!) guinea fowl eggs, but the chickens were fine. I covered the bators with a thick layer of towels to try and insulate them best I could. 5 dozen happy chicks hatched 2 weeks later...
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    HELP! Its day 25 and no pipping

    If you are sure the embryo is still alive there is not much you can do except wait for them to make the first move - I am not sure you can actually start the pipping? Maybe someone else with more experience will have more idea but for mine I don't help if they don't at least start to hatch on...
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    How long to wait.

    Sorry to hear that.....shipped eggs from what I can gather are very hard work. Fingers crossed for better luck with your next batch.
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    Chinese Incubator Temperature

    I have one of the knock off Chinese bators and 5 of the 'real' Chinese bators with the flat panel. My knock off one (our original one) was always cold and refused to keep temp up, we were getting chicks born on day 24 and 25. The real Chinese ones work great - you have to have the one that says...
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    Janoel Incubation Experience

    So sorry to hear that, its heartbreaking when that happens. I recently lost a batch of guinea fowl to power outages. How far along are your eggs? Might it pay to keep them going for a little bit longer and see if any have made it through, but boy that sure is cold!
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    Janoel8-48 Egg Incubator

    Total agree as above! I was following the book so to speak at the start and getting 20% hatches, and those we did get were wet and sticky for days after hatching. I now let the bators drop to 20% before the alarm goes off, then I add just a tiny amount of water and they run up to about 45%...
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    What did I do wrong on day 20 or 21?

    Hi Rookierancher I seem to get some do this almost every hatch. It just seems to be one of those things, just like some develop blood rings and stop early, some get to the end and stop developing late. Someone told me that if the eggs are laid by an older hen they are prone to late incubation...
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    Janoel8-48 Egg Incubator

    I usually find with my 8-48 incubators that just a dash of water in one of the tracks is enough to maintain 30%-40%, I generally lift the lid and squirt a little bit of water in the gap between the rocking trays. I only fill the tracks when I am going into lockdown, and depending on how dry the...
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    Janoel Incubation Experience

    AWESOME! Great news congrats! Maybe temp a little bit high in the incubator (as mine all are) which leads to slightly early hatch. Never mind as long as they are all happy and healthy. A bit of both! We ended up with 127 of 143 so I am thrilled. The hens will be some for us as layers...
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    Janoel Incubation Experience

    Just click the "quote" button at the bottom right of their posting and it will automatically place it in the top of the reply box and allow you to add comments underneath it - as I have just done! Enjoy.
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    Janoel Incubation Experience

    All sounds good HNF! My fingers are crossed - or they will be after I finish taking out the last of my chicks for this week - of 143 viable eggs I have 121 chicks! Woohoo.....when I ordered 14 dozen eggs I really didn't stop to think about just how many chicks that might equal!!!! All I was...
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    Help I'm Just a dummy.... about hatching eggs

    Hi bwolfe! Greetings from Australia. We are all learning each hatch so take a deep breath, and lets see what happens. Temp is much more dangerous if it goes too high not too low, I had a power blackout for 4 hours early in an incubation that dropped temps on all my bators to 25C and those...
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    Im a newbie to it all HELP!!

    Hi and welcome to the madness!!!! I let my humidity during incubation travel a range from 20%-50% (I am in middle of a very dry Australian summer so our air is super dry right now). If I didn't keep topping up water almost daily during incubation it would drop to about 5% on its own. When I...
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    Janoel Incubation Experience

    Good luck Heron! My fingers are crossed for a great hatch for you - do let us know how it goes on Sunday!
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