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Since the average daily relative humidity in Manila is >70% it is possible that you would do fine without worrying about the humidity in your incubator at all. Just a thought.

I was thinking about foothold traps like the Bridger #2 dogless. Turns out there is a lot more to trapping than I realized. Based on what I have seen on YouTube and read on various trapping forums the chances of me successfully catching a fox with a foothold trap are not very good. I already...

We free-ranged our chickens for years and never had a problem. Unfortunately a fox has been killing our chickens. We lost two a couple weeks ago and five at 3:45 PM in the afternoon yesterday. Three killed outright, two died of injuries. Three of five were from this years hatches and they...

Rather than inspect each egg for size of air cell I just weigh 'em. That's what hatcheries do. Hatcheries cannot inspect the air cells of 100,000+/- eggs per setting so they weigh trays and average the result. In my small-scale operation I can weigh each egg.

I pulled up my spreadsheet for my last setting- my D10 average weight loss (all eggs) was 9%. I thought it was a little high so I adjusted the ventilation. Lowest D10 loss was a 50 gram egg that lost 6%. Successful hatch. Highest D10 loss was a 55 gram egg that lost 13%. Successful hatch.

Instead of trying to judge the size of the air cell with my aging eyes I found it easier to weigh my eggs on a digital scale on D01, D10, and D18. I found that, although the overall average weight loss of my setting by D18 was around 13%, right where I wanted it to be, the individual weight...

We incubated four settings of shipped eggs this year. Of the ones that hatched, the majority hatched on D21 with only a couple hatching on D23. We didn't have any hatch beyond D23.

Our Speckled Sussex are also our favorite hens! Speckled Sussex and Dominique. Our Gold Laced Wyandotte are pretty nice, too. The Buff Orpingtons aren't all that friendly. Least favorite are the Brown Leghorns (small, flighty, hides eggs) followed by the Jersey Giants (big appetite, medium...

Our Cuckoo Marans became very broody at 12-18 months. I do not have anything against Marans but the ones we have are the last we will have. The ones we have are too broody, not all that personable, and do not have very good egg color.

Don't go overboard when you add ventilation holes on the bottom. Doesn't take much. I have a 6.6 cubic foot cabinet incubator with a single intake hole in the bottom and a single exhaust hole in the top. Far as checking your probe, what you can do is fill a glass with ice and water (lots of...

Okay. I keep coming back to your post and I would really like to help out but I am not sure where to begin. An average temperature of 99.2F is pretty darn good with your setup. The only way you are going to tighten that up, and I am not sure you need to, is to throw money at it. Before I...

DW keeps bees. This is the time of year of the "summer nectar dearth" where nectar is scarce (although the Goldenrod is coming on about a month early) so bees are looking for alternative sources of food. The summer dearth can be devastating to a honey bee colony. The dearth hits when the...

I purchased an inexpensive game camera through Amazon. As previously stated the night time photos/video aren't great but I know what I am looking at.

Where- the sitting room. Why- because She Who Must Be Obeyed thought it a good idea. This is not a good idea.

I also assumed that I would be able to set the temperature in tenth-degree increments. The ITC-1000 displays in tenth-degree increments but you cannot set the controller in tenth-degree increments. A PID controller is a bit more than a rheostat (a light dimmer). The PID controller that was...

I have the ITC-1000 and the STC-1000. They are extremely popular and both controllers have been used to hatch an uncountable number of eggs. I have used both controllers successfully and I do not mean to disparage anyone's choice to use either controller. I became dissatisfied with both...

I did not notice the fuzz when I was using a styrofoam incubator. I would clean and disinfect between settings but I had no idea there was so much fuzz involved until I switched to a cabinet-style incubator. Fortunately I can remove the racks and wipe down the interior pretty quickly. I have...

Our chickens took to our no-waste feeder right away. I used a 3 1/4" hole saw (I think that is what the outside diameter was) run in reverse to cut the holes for the 3" PVC street elbows. Once the holes were cut I adjusted them a little with a wood rasp in order to fit the street elbows...

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I do exactly the same thing. I number the eggs, record their position on the egg turner, weigh them to a tenth of a gram on D01, D10, and D18, and my spreadsheet calculates individual and average loss. During the first 10 days of my current incubation my average loss was 2.5% greater than...