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[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

Sounds like a fun project. But, i think humidity is very important. If you can't scare up an old hygometer then i suggest buying one. Walmart has thermometer/hygrometers for pretty cheap, around $6. You can buy them online. Or Petco or Petsmart will have them in the reptile section. i've used both. The Fluker's brand from Petco seemed to be the most accurate on temps and humidity.

If you're going to continue doing hatching, i suggest getting an egg turner. i started with just a still air incubator, hand turning the eggs 3-5 times a day. When i moved up to a forced air with an egg turner, i thought i had died and gone to heaven.

It's very nerve-wracking the first hatch (and second, and third, etc.).

i'm not sure i will ever feel lackadaisical about it. In fact, i have a couple eggs under a broody right now due to hatch on Wednesday. Fretting that all goes well.

 

[peacelover]

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Ha, you're not the only one - I am a former biology professor but a) boy is hatching eggs just the COOLEST thing in the world, it is just ASTOUNDING that they can go from two haploid cells to a fluffy self-regulating independant peepy chick in just three weeks!, b) I get very stressed out over incubation, and collect lots of data to try to figure out why things go wrong

, and c) I still SUCK at it, my fourth hatch has just culminated in only 2 of 11 fertile eggs hatching

(Current hypothesis: maybe the thermometer is off and I'm running too hot?)

Good luck, have fun, hang in there,

Pat, who never got this stressed about her own pregnancies, hatching eggs makes me MUCH more neurotic

Lol, it is so exciting!!!!

I just woke up, and the temp has dropped a bit. I don't know why, maybe because it has gotten much colder outside. Its just a few degrees, but now I am even more worried.

 

[peacelover]

At work now worrying about the temps. Everyone is asleep at the house. I'm so neurotic I tried to call dh at midnight to check, he was not happy.

So I'm stuck hoping all is well with my babies.

Didn't find a hygrometer, but the humidity is pretty high here right now, and there is still water in the wells. So I'm just hoping it will be ok until I can get one, I don't know what happened to all the ones I had laying around.