i wise old monitor man with wrestler's ears once said...

30% of the work is in raising healthy stock
30% of the work is in breeding successfully
30% of the work is in incubation
10% of the work is in all the unpredictable variables and surprises

or something like that.

the point is, getting eggs is not the final hurdle. incubation can be tricky and includes a lot of subtle details. once you know how to do it, it seems simple enough. but getting there is not always easy. there are a lot of variables. substrates, container size, incubator size, heating elements, thermostats, moisture levels, egg box size, having good eggs in the first place, and on and on and on.

can you keep the probe outside the egg box? well, Ralph can. what is important is the temp INSIDE the laybox. Ralph's setup apparently allows him to measure temp in one spot, and establish a relative temp in another. i guarantee he knows what the temp of his egg box is, even if there is no probe. if you haven't incubated a lot of eggs, i would recommend keeping your probe INSIDE the egg box.

your eggs could be dead for any of 100 reasons. being non viable eggs in the first place comes to mind, and getting overly wet also comes to mind. you have dead eggs, that is too bad. the challenge is now to look at your overall incubation setup and find the negative variables.

pics would probably help with feedback.

best of luck.
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• Probe placement in EGG container? - insomthegreat, Mon Jun 30 00:22:23 2008
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• RE: Probe placement in EGG container? - JP, Mon Jun 30 09:25:49 2008
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• RE: Probe placement in EGG container? - kinderman, Mon Jun 30 14:25:37 2008
• RE: Probe placement in EGG container? - robyn@ProExotics, Mon Jun 30 13:39:15 2008
• Robyn -- Yes... - kinderman, Mon Jun 30 14:37:09 2008
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