- Nov 25, 2012
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My wife teaches kindergarten and they were given a Hovabator incubator. She is interested in hatching some of our eggs for the class to watch but wants us to do a run before she does it at school. I bought an egg turner for it and for our location, I am going to use a closet that has power in it. Given that the temps are up and down here, we are going to put a small heater w/ thermostat in the closet to keep the closet temp about 80 degrees. This should come close to the setting my wife will be able to use at school.
Questions- I have read on here where people clean the eggs, dont clean the eggs, etc. We have one hen that makes a mess in the nesting box so her eggs are usually dirty- we typically use a wet paper towel and wipe them off- yes or no?
We are planning on setting tomorrow about lunch time but we have 2 Ameracaunas that lay at or around 5:00 pm instead of the am like everyone else- could we put their eggs in tomorrow evening if we have already set the others at lunch? (the only reason for doing it at two different times is my wife is running home to see how we do it- I coach HS soccer so I am out of town tomorrow evening)
thanks
Questions- I have read on here where people clean the eggs, dont clean the eggs, etc. We have one hen that makes a mess in the nesting box so her eggs are usually dirty- we typically use a wet paper towel and wipe them off- yes or no?
We are planning on setting tomorrow about lunch time but we have 2 Ameracaunas that lay at or around 5:00 pm instead of the am like everyone else- could we put their eggs in tomorrow evening if we have already set the others at lunch? (the only reason for doing it at two different times is my wife is running home to see how we do it- I coach HS soccer so I am out of town tomorrow evening)
thanks