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  1. boymeetschicken

    Brinsea Mini Advance Periodic Cooling?

    I have the first version of the Brinsea Mini Advance incubator. The instruction manual suggests turning on periodic cooling on Day 7 and turn it off on Day 18. I am wondering if you follow the instructions and do that, or do you turn it on starting Day 1, or not at all? Just curious what other...
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    Calibrating my incubator

    I have a Brinsea Mini Advance. The last hatch I did the chicks hatched a few days early and 2 died after lockdown, so I decided to check the temp. I purchased an inexpensive terrarium temp/humidity meter, popped it into my empty incubator, filled one of the two wells with water, set it to 99.5F...
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    Too late to add water?

    I'm on day 19/20 (a little foggy as to the day as I set them late in the evening) with a Brinsea Mini Advance. I was just going to open and top off the water reservoir one last time when I noticed one of the eggs had pipped! I'm not going to open now but I see the water level has dropped quite a...
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    Candling pictures--please give input!

    This is our second hatch! Finally invested in a Brinsea candler. Also using the Brinsea Mini Advance. Would love input from this community as to how my eggs are doing, as I'm still not sure about this candling thing. Thanks in advance! Egg 1. I'm guessing infertile? Egg 2. Is that black...
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    Pictures of chicks from first hatch!

    Haven't logged on for a while, these are pictures of chicks from our very first hatch. We got 7 eggs from mypetchicken.com (their "Eggs for Education". 4 hatched, but one didn't make it. Here are the three remaining. My 4 year old son is super excited about them. He plays with them every day...
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    When can chicks take fieldtrips?

    Newly chick mom here, and the chicks are only 2 days old. I was wondering when they can go outside to the grassy yard to play for a few minutes. My son loves to watch them and it's not much fun watching them inside a rabbit cage on the floor of the garage. It's nice and warm here, almost 70F in...
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    Newly hatched chick shaking?

    Three eggs hatched yesterday and the last egg (different breed) hatched today. After the last egg hatched I opened up the incubator be removed the three dry chicks, then left the wet one inside to dry. Now the newest chick is lying on his back shivering and shaking with his eyes shut. Is he...
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    When to remove newly hatched chicks/when to add water?

    So excited! First hatch here. Two eggs hatched about 2 hours ago and the chicks are staggering inside the incubator. Two more eggs inside not even pipped, although it's hard to tell because they are being rolled around so much by the chicks. Two questions: 1) When should I move the new chicks...
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    Are these eggs rotten?

    First timer, using a Brinsea Mini Advance, day 14. Yesterday I posted that one of my eggs was cracked and oozing and everyone advised me to toss it. Cracked it open and yes it had stopped developing ages ago. More googling today taught me that rotten eggs actually explode! Had I known I would...
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    What age kids and chicks?

    We are hatching eggs, day 12. I have a 4 year old and he and all his friends can't wait to play with the chicks. At what age (chicks not kids) can I allow the kids to handle them? How old before I can bring the chicks outside to the yard? It's in the 60's here. Thanks!
  11. boymeetschicken

    My son and I are hatching eggs

    First timer and new to the site! I'm hatching 7 eggs with a Brinsea Mini Advance. My 4 year old son is my assistant. :)
  12. boymeetschicken

    Brinsea Catastrophe!

    This is my first hatch and I just got off the phone with the Brinsea company rep. We have the mini advance, and when I set the machine up, I set it up for "periodic incubation cooling" 1 hour a day, as suggested in the manual. Now the company rep tells me I'm not supposed to turn that feature on...
  13. boymeetschicken

    Will I miss the hatch

    First timer here. Brinsea mini advance, 7 assorted chicken eggs (the eggs for education set from mypetchicken). I set the eggs on Tuesday morning 2/9. When should I expect the first eggs to start hatching? We suddenly have the opportunity to go on a little trip the weekend of 2/27-28, but I...
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