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    Copper black maran eggs not hatching.

    I'm having a problem with my copper black maran eggs not hatching. I run a mixed flock and incubate a few clutches of barnyard mixes every year. I've been doing this for about 4 years now. I run both a cabinet incubator and a table top. Both are at 100F at 50% humidity, bumping to about 65% at...
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    Automatic Egg Turner Constantly Sways Back and Forth!

    Hello I just got this automatic egg turner in amazon and yes it was cheap, kinda regretting that now. Anyway is it normal for it to constantly sway back and forth like this? It came with absolutely no instructions. I plan to set a batch of 24 on Sunday so I’m hoping I can find a way to make this...
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    Sportsman Cabinet Incubator 1502 Fan Troubleshooting

    needing some insight on the sportsman cabinet incubator 1502 this model is an older model from about 2006. Should the fan run all the time? (I can't remember) and when it does run it shuts off way before the desired temperature. I even turned off the heat and then 20 minutes later the fan kicked...
  4. PeaEggThief

    GQF Sportsman 1502 Humidity - Or Too Much Moisture Loss?

    I bought a GQF Sportsman 1502 for hatching peafowl eggs and during my test runs here (on silkie eggs) I'm seeing a trend. Quick hatchers (who unzip and hatch rapidly) has no issues - hatcher who slowly pip and unzip (over the course of 24 hours) are getting stuck/shrink wrapped. The lockdown...
  5. rascal66

    Incubating and Hatching chicks with this incubator, low hatch rates, need advice

    Hello! I am doing lots of incubation this year, and the incubator I am using is the Chinese 48 egg incubator. (Unfortunately I did not do enough research on this bator, but it hasnt been terrible.) So far, I had one round of eggs incubated and hatch. It was about 23 Eggs and I had 14 hatch...
  6. Miriah132

    Failure to hatch?

    So I have been using a farm innovators styrofoam type incubator and have been using the dry incubation method. I have had 100% fertility with all my own eggs and About 98% with bought or shipped eggs. They develop beautifully with the dry incubation method BUT for some reason at hatch only about...
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