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I'll try to plug one hole tomorrow, since I'll (finally) be home all day.
I'll be working on my new project: a homemade hatchery. I've already bought a few things for it following several advices from people in this forum. The goal is to separate my Ameraucanas & Copper Marans from the mutts. I'll have plenty of time to make sure it works before the time comes! And if it doesn't, I guess I'll just have to keep an eye on my eggs when (and if) they hatch. Good thing it is supposed to happen on the 17th, and the 18th is a holiday! WOOHOO!
On mine, reservoir # 1 goes around the plastic tray, and reservoir #2 goes to the center of the tray. I'll make sure to make notes on the air cell - I haven't read the entire article word by word, but I do recall reading somewhere that you can mark with a pencil where the air cell is, so you can track the progress. I will be reading the article as I go along, this way I won't need to worry about remembering what to do.
So this is the progress so far: temperature still stable on 100 F on the mercury thermometer and oscillating between 99.1 and 99.5 on the digital thermometer. Humidity is still stable at 28%.
Things seems to be doing well, but I'll keep you posted. Thank you for all your advices!!!!
Quick question: do you have any eggs in your incubator now? If yes, when did you out them in it and what are they?
Night Night!
I'll be working on my new project: a homemade hatchery. I've already bought a few things for it following several advices from people in this forum. The goal is to separate my Ameraucanas & Copper Marans from the mutts. I'll have plenty of time to make sure it works before the time comes! And if it doesn't, I guess I'll just have to keep an eye on my eggs when (and if) they hatch. Good thing it is supposed to happen on the 17th, and the 18th is a holiday! WOOHOO!

On mine, reservoir # 1 goes around the plastic tray, and reservoir #2 goes to the center of the tray. I'll make sure to make notes on the air cell - I haven't read the entire article word by word, but I do recall reading somewhere that you can mark with a pencil where the air cell is, so you can track the progress. I will be reading the article as I go along, this way I won't need to worry about remembering what to do.
So this is the progress so far: temperature still stable on 100 F on the mercury thermometer and oscillating between 99.1 and 99.5 on the digital thermometer. Humidity is still stable at 28%.
Things seems to be doing well, but I'll keep you posted. Thank you for all your advices!!!!
Quick question: do you have any eggs in your incubator now? If yes, when did you out them in it and what are they?
Night Night!
