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The “Ooh-Aah” bird

Apparently so-named because it lays square eggs. But perhaps it just lays these. An average “large” size egg (the pale cream one, obviously) alongside for comparison.

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Incubating eggs, Day 29

No longer incubating of course, but about a week after they hatched the chicks are in a larger area to give them space to run around whilst they’re under the heat lamp. In all we had twenty-one hatch, but sadly … Continue reading

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Incubating eggs update, Day 21

Well, they’ve been arriving thick and fast (and somewhat noisily) today. Fifteen so far I think, with another three eggs that have pipped though it’s not easy to tell looking through the lids. Sadly we also had one Marans that … Continue reading

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Incubating eggs update #2, Day 20

Well, he (or she) wasn’t hanging about. We have a hatched chick! It’s not a great photo unfortunately. I’ll get a better one tomorrow when we move it out of the incubator after it has dried off. One of the … Continue reading

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Incubating eggs update, Day 20

The long peck to freedom! Alerted by cheeping from one of the incubators I’ve just gone to have a look and one of the chicks is already well on the way out. It’s not a great photo but it is … Continue reading

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Incubating eggs update, Day 19

Today I took the incubators off the cradles and removed the dividers so the eggs are just lying on the incubator floors. I also lowered the temperature half a degree and pushed the humidity up a little. At the same … Continue reading

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Incubating eggs update, Day 12

I weighed the egg trays again today. The weights of the eggs this time are 1055g for the Suro incubator and 1062g for the Brinsea, giving losses of 91g and 101g or 7.9% and 8.7%. At this point I’d be … Continue reading

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Incubating eggs, Day 7

Having adjusted the incubators earlier in the week I’ve now weighed the eggs trays for a second time. The results for the Suro incubator give a loss of exactly 50g which is 4.4% of the original 1146g. The eggs in … Continue reading

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Incubating eggs update update

Having measured the incubator temperatures with a thermometer I trust, the Suro 20 reads about 0.1C higher than the thermometer. The difference for the Brinsea was closer to 0.3C (also higher), so I’ve turned up the temperature on that a … Continue reading

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Incubating eggs update

Ok, so other things got in the way a little over the last couple of days, but we’re now four days in. I’ve just weighed the trays of eggs. Worryingly the Suro incubator is showing an RH value of 68% … Continue reading

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