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    Water bed incubation

    I usually try to wait until the 504 hours have passed before I move the blanket. I grab out the dry chicks and the shells. In every hatch there are always a few that end up on top of the blanket. You will hear them because they get very distraught! I either tuck them back under or put them in...
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    Water bed incubation

    I did come up with a regime I'll test next year on my next hatch that varies a bit from the nigerian study, I'll post it if anyone is interested, however I should mention the biggest difference, last hatch I concluded that the right waterbed temperature for day 18 is 37.5 (not the 37). I used...
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    Water bed incubation

    How is it going so far? I kind of summarized what I have done that has worked reasonably well for me. I have only hatched chicken eggs. Interesting enough the instructions that come with these incubators actually call for a higher setting for quail than for chickens, and yet to me it seems like...
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    Water bed incubation

    I wrote this for some one I managed to interest in waterbed hatching. I tried to keep it brief, I'm not good at that! I have struggled to find a good set temperature for water bed hatching. The instructions they come with are just generic still air incubator instructions, but even in a still...
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    Water bed incubation

    Three years ago I bought a cheap waterbed incubator. Since then I have become such a big fan of water bed hatching! It is just so simple, dry hatch, no moving parts, just a heat pad, a thermostat, a bag of water in an insulated box! The temperatures are amazingly consistent, so since the eggs...
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