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Definitely get the auto-turning cradle! I just picked mine up yesterday and ran it last night to test it out before I set my eggs this morning at 9:30. I don't know how I lived without the cradle before! Manually turning is easy in the Octagon 20 - but who really has the time to turn more than 3 or 5 times a day? The cradle turns it on an hourly cycle. It's very neat, and I want these eggs to hatch so very badly!
I candled my shipped eggs last night while I was setting up the new 'bator and getting everything ready for this morning. Out of 12 eggs (I paid for 6+), I had just 1 broken air cell. The rest look great, I have high hopes for this hatch!
My 4 duck eggs are all chugging right along - they're getting huge, but I can still see them "dancing" around in there! March 30th's the hatch date for the ducklings, April 6th for the shipped Bantam Cochins!
3-5 times a day??? Who has time for that??? Don't other chicken people have JOBS???? Eh, I read to turn two or three times per day, so I turned every morning before work and evening before bed. Guess we'll see how it works out.
Day 19 and I have at least one egg rockin already!!
I have the humidity about 60% and I'm getting a little bit of condensation on the viewing windows. Does that mean that it's too high? Or just that my bedroom is signigicantly cooler than inside the bator??
Definitely get the auto-turning cradle! I just picked mine up yesterday and ran it last night to test it out before I set my eggs this morning at 9:30. I don't know how I lived without the cradle before! Manually turning is easy in the Octagon 20 - but who really has the time to turn more than 3 or 5 times a day? The cradle turns it on an hourly cycle. It's very neat, and I want these eggs to hatch so very badly!
I candled my shipped eggs last night while I was setting up the new 'bator and getting everything ready for this morning. Out of 12 eggs (I paid for 6+), I had just 1 broken air cell. The rest look great, I have high hopes for this hatch!
My 4 duck eggs are all chugging right along - they're getting huge, but I can still see them "dancing" around in there! March 30th's the hatch date for the ducklings, April 6th for the shipped Bantam Cochins!
3-5 times a day??? Who has time for that??? Don't other chicken people have JOBS???? Eh, I read to turn two or three times per day, so I turned every morning before work and evening before bed. Guess we'll see how it works out.
Day 19 and I have at least one egg rockin already!!
I have the humidity about 60% and I'm getting a little bit of condensation on the viewing windows. Does that mean that it's too high? Or just that my bedroom is signigicantly cooler than inside the bator??
