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    Chicken breeders or Folks in South Africa?

    Whoooo my peeps. Anyone from SA still browsing around here?
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    EE won’t stop laying shell-less eggs

    We had this happen with our Quail. We ended up only getting it right by giving her constant access to crushed oyster shells. Her body seemed to know how much she needed. Dunno if that's helpful at all.
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    Power it's and load shedding?

    They Quail eggs, so on day 21 we already pushing it I think... There is one that pipped yesterday but nothing's happened since and the hole where it pipped has gone dark yellow. But that's it. I figured Lemme try with the quail first before buying chicken eggs as I have those readily available
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    Power it's and load shedding?

    As an update, I managed to incubate and have 2 out of the 13 hatch. We on day 21 now so I don't think anymore will hatch. But I also put some of that down to my own incompetence and not power outages. Definitely learned a lot for the next batch. Thanks all for the wonderful advice!
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    Power it's and load shedding?

    I didn't think about solar. We do have a solar panel and battery system and inverter that we normally use for lights when the power goes out. I'm gonna chat with my husband and see if it can be adapted to run the incubator.
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    Power it's and load shedding?

    Yep it's daily. If you google "what is load shedding in South Africa" if gives you a pretty good rundown of the situation. I have absolutely no idea as I am getting the incubator for Christmas. I know it doesn't hold more than 8 eggs. Our generator generates barely enough to run the toaster...
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    It is I: Mock!

    Thank you! I will definitely be looking into that! We get quite hot here in summer but in winter we also drop quite cold.
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    It is I: Mock!

    Yeah, the culling part is not at all fun. The only thing that makes it a little bit better is knowing you gave the creature a good life.
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    It is I: Mock!

    Won't lie I had to google what a hoop coop is, but they do look pretty cool. We thankfully don't have those kinds of predators in our area. Just nosy neighbours. Our dogs keeps the snakes away. Our dogs are trained not to touch the livestock though, so we've never had an issue with them. If...
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    It is I: Mock!

    Thank you! Glad you find them cute
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    Power it's and load shedding?

    Well today for example we are sitting at 30c which is around 86f. It's rarely over two hours unless there's a fault and even then it's normally restored within the 2 hour mark. If not we do have a generator that we can use if it goes on for longer. I'm just not sure how many watts the incubator...
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    Power it's and load shedding?

    So I am anticipating getting an incubator for Christmas. I have found a place to source eggs and I have done as much research as I can. The only thing I cannot find help on is the following. I live in South Africa and we routinely have a thing called "loadshedding" which means 1-2 times a day...
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    Are we doing the right thing?

    Thank you for the advice! We have already started implementing it by cutting back the light. When you said that I realised when we started supplementing the light we did it because the sun was only rising at around 6.30 and setting earlier. We forgot to pay attention to the season change!
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    It is I: Mock!

    Thank you for such a wonderful welcome! It is lovely to meet you blue! You sound like you have your hands full there in Missouri!
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    It is I: Mock!

    Thank you!
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