Happychi2019
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- Feb 4, 2019
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How are your eggs doing?
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They're doing great! Still alive!How are your eggs doing?
Six more days on countdown. Good luck! ❤Day 15 (chicken incubation, 13 days)- Everything has been going fine, I feel like I have discovered all the kinks. Basically turn up the heat before I go to sleep, get up at 6 pm and turn down the heat and rotate the eggs, only place the eggs in the middle, keep a folded towel on top of it, refill the eggshells every 1 pm when I rotate them again, lower the heat again if needed, rotate them at 9 pm and raise the heat. Repeat.
Also, I have managed to get a picture of one of the eggs, sadly it is not that good, but still, a picture. It was wiggling so it was tricky. Meet egg #1.
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Thanks!Six more days on countdown. Good luck! ❤
When the cardboard cartons get too messed up to use - I then use it as a seedling tray. When the plants are large enough to transplant, I tear each "cup" off, make a hole in the bottom for the roots, and then plant the entire thing. The plants grow fine, the cardboard "composts" and all is well. (I have even taken unviable eggs for whatever reason - and planted those below the plant roots - instant fertilizer.)Day 16 (chicken incubation, 14 days)- I have forgot to tells you guys, sorry for that. But I have added a sebright egg in the back of the carton to see if I could also incubate there to, and the egg is alive and vital so far! The father is either a sebright or a silver duckwing. I put it there on March 29. The eggs will hatch in one more week! (besides the sebright).
Also I just though about something, an awesome thing about using egg cartons, it is a incubator that could be used once and then used a fertilizer and can be easily replaced.
NiceWhen the cardboard cartons get too messed up to use - I then use it as a seedling tray. When the plants are large enough to transplant, I tear each "cup" off, make a hole in the bottom for the roots, and then plant the entire thing. The plants grow fine, the cardboard "composts" and all is well. (I have even taken unviable eggs for whatever reason - and planted those below the plant roots - instant fertilizer.)