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I HAVE CHICKS!!!!
2 hatched over night and lots more have piped! Very excited.
2 hatched over night and lots more have piped! Very excited.
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Awesome! congratsI HAVE CHICKS!!!!
2 hatched over night and lots more have piped! Very excited.
Same hereOnce I put the eggs in, I do not touch it at all. I open it every 3 days usually, lift the tray to add water and close it back up. That is all I do till day 18 then move the eggs to my styrofoam one for hatch. lol
Jim
Sometimes when I rock the bator back or forward it will change a degree or so but I still leave it alone.
It was designed to move the entire bator not each individual egg, the ends are hexagonal for that very reason. If you get the auto turner, it moves the entire bator also.On the brinsea manual turn type, when you turn the eggs do you open the entire thing, or do you turn them without losing your heat and humidity?
They have directions that came with it for cleaning by taking some screws out . I cant remember how often they said it should be done..I have a Brinsea 20 Eco, without a turner and I just used it for my first hatch. Every egg that made it to lockdown hatched...! 18/18...
But now I have a question...how do I clean out the top part? it is all full of tiny little feathers. They are all over the fan and all inside the upper housing. I cleaned the tray and bottom parts really well and easily but how do you clean out the top portion? Should I just blow it out with an air compressor? Then maybe spray it with lysol?
If you've got a really good vacuum with an attachment, it's the easiest. I use my husband's wet/dry vac after unscrewing with a phillips, wipe down everything with a bleach sol'n., then air dry. I'd do it after every hatch thou- better be safe than sorry.I have a Brinsea 20 Eco, without a turner and I just used it for my first hatch. Every egg that made it to lockdown hatched...! 18/18...
But now I have a question...how do I clean out the top part? it is all full of tiny little feathers. They are all over the fan and all inside the upper housing. I cleaned the tray and bottom parts really well and easily but how do you clean out the top portion? Should I just blow it out with an air compressor? Then maybe spray it with lysol?
My humidity on the reader is below 0 on the chart. Is that drastic drop in humidity bad for the eggs??