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I suddenly have Redfoot eggs. I've found 14 but I could have LOADS more still to be excavated.
I have a HOVERBATOR chicken egg incubator, but the settings for heat will not stabilize. And forever creeps hotter and hotter.
So I "reverse engineered" an old closed chamber that I wasn't using and added 4" of Vermaculite That I mixed with water 50/50 and it is uniformly damp. I put my eggs in depressions in the mixture and my set-up has a pretty constant 85 degrees and 85% humidity. There is a standing bowl of water for humidity from evaporation.
My concern is that there are water droplets forming on the glass and I'm worried about moldy eggs.
I've wiped down the glass and there seems to be less of it now.
This has only been set up an running for 3 days now.
Anything that you would tweak?
I have a HOVERBATOR chicken egg incubator, but the settings for heat will not stabilize. And forever creeps hotter and hotter.
So I "reverse engineered" an old closed chamber that I wasn't using and added 4" of Vermaculite That I mixed with water 50/50 and it is uniformly damp. I put my eggs in depressions in the mixture and my set-up has a pretty constant 85 degrees and 85% humidity. There is a standing bowl of water for humidity from evaporation.
My concern is that there are water droplets forming on the glass and I'm worried about moldy eggs.
I've wiped down the glass and there seems to be less of it now.
This has only been set up an running for 3 days now.
Anything that you would tweak?