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    Hatchalong! Setting Eggs April 6, 2012. Anyone else in?

    Out of 22 fertile eggs, 1 chick. Reepacheep took about 3 hours from first pip to popping the top. Royal (the cat) is quite interested!!! Yes, I was trying to take pictures in the bathroom mirror!!
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    Hatchalong! Setting Eggs April 6, 2012. Anyone else in?

    Yeah!!! I had one pip two hours ago. And just a few minutes ago a little dark chick popped the top off a green egg. Nothing else yet. S/he will be in there for a while. I hope s/he has a friend before this is all over.
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    Hatchalong! Setting Eggs April 6, 2012. Anyone else in?

    It is exciting to see everyone else's chicks. I am starting in on day 22 and still no sign of anything. How long do you wait before ditching?
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    Hatchalong! Setting Eggs April 6, 2012. Anyone else in?

    At the beginning of Day 20..... No signs of anything, no cheeps, no pips, no nothing....... I am not optimistic!!!
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    Hatchalong! Setting Eggs April 6, 2012. Anyone else in?

    The threads where I read about it said coolish water. I don't think the temp would be as important as losing the humidity in the bator... which is why you want to keep it closed always at lock-down..... that's why it's called lock-down. It would take a lot longer than the 15 seconds you have...
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    Hatchalong! Setting Eggs April 6, 2012. Anyone else in?

    So... my eggs are also now in lockdown but I'm not really optimistic. Seems like the temps just want to wobble up and down. We candled (still can't get anything real good even with that little LED from Canadian Tire) and we water tested them. I could imagine that a couple wobbled a little...
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    Hatchalong! Setting Eggs April 6, 2012. Anyone else in?

    Yeah, I know. But this is my third try. The first the temps went up and down too much and the second I drowned them with too much humidity and none made it. So I'm a bit edgy. Third time lucky, I'm hoping!!!
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    Hatchalong! Setting Eggs April 6, 2012. Anyone else in?

    So... would you put eggs into lockdown early or late? My 18th day starts at 8am tomorrow morning. I need to be on the road by 7:30 and will not be home until around 11:00 at night. (My son is turning through the day, but I don't really trust him to do lockdown correctly by himself). Would...
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    Hatchalong! Setting Eggs April 6, 2012. Anyone else in?

    For lockdown, I'm planning to take them out of the turner and lay them down. But.... I thought I'd use the lids of egg cartons and lay six of them in each... 3 on each side of the ridge. That way they can't be rolling all over the place and the carton lid will catch some of the mess.... less...
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    Hatchalong! Setting Eggs April 6, 2012. Anyone else in?

    So we candled again tonight (day 13 for us). Many of the 22 left still look like they're developing OK...mostly I can see proper air space development. Some it was really hard to tell. We have really thick shelled fairly dark brown and green eggs. Keeping fingers crossed for next weekend...
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    Hatchalong! Setting Eggs April 6, 2012. Anyone else in?

    I'm in!! I put 23 eggs in on April 7. (The fake egg, which has already "quit" takes up the 24th spot). I candled last night and removed one that wasn't fertile. I have really dark eggs with thick shells so hard to see, but the air cell was well formed in some of them. Then.... I started...
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    incubator ideas! post your ideas for home made incubators, whether they work or not~

    My incubator looked very similar with one major difference. I had the fan blowing directly over the eggs. WRONG!!! With the fan blowing the way it was, there seemed to be quite a bit of temperature variation over the eggs. It seemed like the thermostat held temperature, just not the section...
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    Starting FIRST TIME EVER eggs and I have some thermomter questions! Please help!

    OK: I think maybe my fan is the problem. I have it outside the light box, pointing across the eggs. That's why when I flip the eggs they are hot one direction and cold the other. I think if I moved the fan inside the light box (so it wasn't actually blowing across the eggs) that might cool...
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    Ameraucana Eggs - What color??

    Oh, and if you get in touch with Claire from Skeffling Lavender Farm near Wiarton, ON, she has true Ameraucanas.... I mean the real ones. Great stock too! She also ships eggs. I got my EE's from her as chicks, but she sold them to me as EE's and she knows the difference. If you send me a...
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