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Let me tell you a true story. I once filled a still air Styrofoam incubator with eggs and then forgot all about it. I mean COMPLETELY forgot about it for 21 days! No temperature adjustment, no water in the well, no turning of eggs. I remembered it when I started hearing some mysterious peeping...

That doesn't work in every climate.

That's what my hovabator does. My hatches from it are not as good as my hatches from the Brinseas.

You didn't waste my time. I like hearing from ALL the poultry people, whether you have 1 bird or thousands. 10 out of 12 eggs is a great hatch rate! I assume you have your incubator in a spot that keeps a fairly steady ambient temperature. That's my problem. Styros don't do real good for me...

When are you going to send one to me?

I had an old still air I tried using as a hatcher last year. I gave up. Hatches were terrible in that one, but great in the circulated air bators. So I put that one away and got another circulated air bator.

This: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0099Y9SUQ It has a probe on a wire. You can stick the probe through one of the vent holes.

Look what Fleming Outdoors has on clearance, in case anyone needs circulated air incubators cheap! Wait until tomorrow (Memorial Day) and shipping will be free when you use the code MDAY at checkout. http://www.flemingoutdoors.com/clearance-sale.html

I never measure humidity. I put water in the wells during incubation, and add wet sponges during hatching.

I keep my incubators at 99.5* that is the best temp for circulated air incubators. If you have a still air incubator, then I think you're supposed to keep it at 100* at the top of the eggs.

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It's tight! I put eggs under broodies, but they all got flooded out but one. Those hatched last night. I normally put mom and babies in a cage, but I had to go ahead and take the babies because everything is such a mess out there from unrelenting rain. I have a styro bator going and 2 of the...

I've been hatching small batches of chicks every few days all spring. Here's what I have still coming up. Marans and Seramas in lockdown now. (After they hatch I'll have room for the turkey eggs that are arriving in the mail). And I have the following due dates: 5/18 Quail 5/20 Polish...

If the temp is uneven that way, you may need to look into replacing the fans.

That sounds like MY convoluted egg staggering.

What are gold silkies? I wouldn't want to try to dry hatch waterfowl eggs, they need LOTS of humidity.

Yes, apparently it will. I saw pictures of one recently where someone had put tuners like you use in a styrofoam incubator in the hatching egg trays of a cabinet incubator and they said the eggs hatch fine.

Yes, you'll just need to manually turn the eggs.

Sure you did. I keep measuring trying to figure out how to fit more coops in.

Sure. I bet I have it figured out. Pink and purple results from a fine white calcium coating on a brown egg. The gray egg would be an olive egg with that white coating.