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    Rockethoe’s global hatching adventure: Slovenian eggs in Chinese incubator.

    Here's a quick unboxing video I made when it arrives. In a couple days I will do a record my first impressions of it after running it for a couple days with an independent thermometer to see how accurate it is. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeXnr2fu/
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    Rockethoe’s global hatching adventure: Slovenian eggs in Chinese incubator.

    Incubator finally landed from china. It was delayed due to the war apparently. It's about the size of a washing machine.
  3. rockethoe

    Rockethoe’s global hatching adventure: Slovenian eggs in Chinese incubator.

    Incubator finally landed in Rotterdam, apparently the ship had to divert it's course because of the war. So hopefully it will arrive here in Ireland fairly quick now as it's at least in the eu. I've ordered the hatching eggs from Slovenia for a June delivery. They are €0.50 a piece (plus...
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    Rockethoe’s global hatching adventure: Slovenian eggs in Chinese incubator.

    Started work on rebuilding the shed for our 400 egg hatchery conversion. Knocking down and rebuilding the rotten and woodwormed walks. Video here
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    Rockethoe’s global hatching adventure: Slovenian eggs in Chinese incubator.

    Also I visited my local vetinary office to clarify what I needed to do paperwork wise for importing the eggs. They were very helpful and told me that all I need to do was register as an importer on the "traces" system, and in fact that she would even do that for me.
  6. rockethoe

    Rockethoe’s global hatching adventure: Slovenian eggs in Chinese incubator.

    The incubator should be arriving in Europe in the next couuple of days and then a short hop skip and a jump to us. Work has started on disassembling the shed and rebuilding it into a hatchery. Most of the uprights, and many of the cladding boards are rotten as they weren't treated for about 20...
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    Rockethoe’s global hatching adventure: Slovenian eggs in Chinese incubator.

    They are essentially a strain from RIR bred solely for production. Any other RIR I’ve seen doesn’t have the same egg count though.
  8. rockethoe

    Rockethoe’s global hatching adventure: Slovenian eggs in Chinese incubator.

    Hi folks, I have posted in previous places about this, but thought for progress going forward I’ll keep it in this thread. We keep a small commercial flock of pastured laying hens. Currently we buy in POL lohman browns, but want to get away from that model to a closed flock model. I am...
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