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    July 4th Hatch-A-Long?

    I got my first black wing bronze
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    July 4th Hatch-A-Long?

    All 4 royal palms hatched, next up are the black wing bronze
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    What religion do you belong to?

    rasta
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    July 4th Hatch-A-Long?

    tomorrow, they look pretty much the same, bigger and a bump on their head,the very beginnings of the snood
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    July 4th Hatch-A-Long?

    just had two turkeys hatched. the one is really big n healthy lookin. the other needs some time to dry
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    hovabator temp questions

    nope, you got me there. @PD-Riverman did I mention somewhere that these were turkey eggs? I seem to see two schools of thought with turkey eggs. one like yours keeping the humidity low until lockdown, the other up to 50% until lockdown I always see the same thing too: whichever works best for...
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    hovabator temp questions

    thanks for pointing that out to me, I did more reading up on it last night. weird though,the chickens outside can lay and hatch eggs in the 90%+ humidity outside. having looked at the issue. Im going to try to add a family size boil in bag rice pack and plug one vent hole to see If I can drop...
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    hovabator temp questions

    think thats too high? the chickens outside in the 90% seem pretty good. think they wont lose enough water? http://www.porterturkeys.com/egghatchingtips.htm this guy says 50-60 is okay, I figure its higher than 60% in the room.its 98% outside right now It has rained buckets everyday for the last...
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    hovabator temp questions

    see the humidity Im not sweating, no pun. hygrometer says 40-50% and Im not really adding water. humidity outside is 95% Im pretty certain its a little less in the house. when it comes to getting the humidity up, I got that.
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    hovabator temp questions

    gotcha. so dipping down to 99 for a little while. I have no idea how long. thats not too bad,I guess.
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    hovabator temp questions

    maybe I got a bad one then cause this thing is driving me crazy. and I might as well be setting on the eggs myself, with all the time I spend looking at the thermometer (watching where it kicks on at)
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    hovabator temp questions

    Im beginning to hate this hovabator. Just when I was feeling comfortable with it, I woke up this morning and for whatever reason, it was at 99.0 Ive since found out that barometric pressure and relative humidity can affect the wafer thermostat.
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    July 4th Hatch-A-Long?

    Im in on this I have some broody chicken hens sitting on some royal palm and crimson dawn turkeys. royal palms are due july 4th! the others are due the 6th oops and a whole gang of royal palms and bourbon reds in the incubator, they're due on the 10th
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    hovabator temp questions

    just what I wanted to hear. thanks a bunch.
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    hovabator temp questions

    I thought I had read just about everything in regards to incubating before I got started. My issue is my hovabator 1602n temp ranges a good little bit. I was of the impression it would stay at one temp and now Ive resigned myself to just trying to keep it in a good range. Im doing turkeys so...
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