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    Adding A Cord Notch To A Vevor 25L Incubator, HELP!

    Yeah, I kinda figured I'd have to do something like that, and wondered if anyone else had done it and could guide me through it...much as I hate to maim a brand-new incubator! And yes, chicken eggs. :) What it DOES have is an exposed fan fitted to the top. It already bit me once when I was...
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    Whatever Happened To The Easy Chicken?

    Late to reply, but... Scott, I do hope you can bring it back, it's such an excellent reference asset! I pointed people all the time to your 'Keeping Your Rooster Sane' article. It works!
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    Cracked egg

    I had a SEVERELY cracked chicken egg last year on day 15 of incubation when a shelf in my incubator collapsed. I was able to fix it, with the chick hatching unassisted. Today she is an uppity little snot and we love her. Anyway, here's how...
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    Adding A Cord Notch To A Vevor 25L Incubator, HELP!

    My trusty ReptiPro 6000 died, and the ReptiPro company is no more, I guess. I ordered a new Vevor 25L incubator, which is basically the same thing. But. It's missing the VERY important cord notches that the ReptiPro had (see pictures below, the temp probes placed in the water weasels exit the...
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    Repairing And Hatching Severely Damaged Eggs--This WORKED!

    I always give my eggs a day or so beyond hatch date, just in case one is a slow starter.
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    Repairing And Hatching Severely Damaged Eggs--This WORKED!

    It can't hurt to try! My egg was leaking blood (I assume because draw-down had yet to occur) and it hatched. But that egg DID fool me--No peeping/rocking/pipping. The chick just pipped, unzipped, and hatched in the space of about 2 hours while I was asleep! So yeah--I'd give the egg the full...
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    Repairing And Hatching Severely Damaged Eggs--This WORKED!

    I may just have lucked out due to the stage of incubation my egg was at--any earlier, and the chick may not have survived. Yeah, necro'ing eggs is nasty...but you gain knowledge that way, so it can be very important.
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    Repairing And Hatching Severely Damaged Eggs--This WORKED!

    Since 2008 we've been webcasting our annual spring chicken egg hatch, called Chickam. While every year seems to have some kind of dumb drama with the hatch, this year was a whopper. The big one was due to an accident with the incubator racks, all of the eggs and equipment took a very bad fall on...
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    Ended Official 2023 Annual BYC Summer Fair Contest Series

    I got an alert saying I was mentioned in this thread, but darned if I can find anything. Don't want to ignore someone trying to get my attention...?
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    Important for anyone who loves their chooks

    Man, that sucks. I'm in northern Nevada and the heat here has been brutal for weeks--105 to 107. So glad Houston is doing better, given time she might be back to her old self. You sound like you take excellent care of your pets and a wonderful chicken lady. :) It might be worth a try to give...
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    newly hatched chick staying on its back

    I once had a chick in the incubator that kept flipping over. I made him this little 'Chick Dalek' out of a circle of heavy cardboard and tape. It went from the top of his chest to his feet, snug enough around so he couldn't fall over. The bottom was open, so he could still walk around the...
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    Calibrating the Hygrometer Experiment - Pictures & Video

    I found a great article on how to do a saturated salt calibration on hygrometers using a quite larger dish! He brings up the excellent point that you want to read the area 3 inches above the salt slurry, it contains air with a predictable humidity value. I used this method and it works...
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    Help In Selecting A Temperature Alarm For My ReptiPro 6000 Incubator

    Thanks for the feedback! I went ahead and ordered some equipment. Just in case anyone else is in the same boat or WILL be in the future, I'll update this thread when I find out what the heck is going on with my incubator and eggs...knowledge is power!
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    Help In Selecting A Temperature Alarm For My ReptiPro 6000 Incubator

    Another possibility, this one operates via Bluetooth: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08JLNXLVZ?cafId=41e9025f-7833-4288-b417-2d3a4777e5c9&cafASIN=B08JLNXLVZ&ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_YS77CQM5928YSHK5MQCY
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    Help In Selecting A Temperature Alarm For My ReptiPro 6000 Incubator

    Just in case anyone else is looking for something like this, a friend pointed me to this one...it's a chef's temperature probe with a high/low alarm feature! You can set it for as little as a two degreee difference. It seems to be just what we need to 'cook' our chickens--LOL, who knew...
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