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RoyalVariations
at Mon May 18 15:37:27 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RoyalVariations ]
Last year with one clutch I used a plastic lid to hold my eggs. I used "completely dry" perlite as the substrate "placed on the plastic lid". I made an area in the perlite "in the middle" sort of grooved out to hold the eggs so they would not roll off of the perlite. I placed the "lid with perlite and eggs" on top of two plastic egg crates stacked on top of each other which were resting on sloppy wet perlite about 1 1/2 inches deep. I closed the container with its lid. I had NO holes in the container or its lid. I wiped the lid of the container once every day for the entire incubation. The eggs were "text book" in every way. They never got wet and they hatched perfectly. The dry perlite kept them dry but surrounded at the same time with maximum humidity.
I tried this because when I used the non substrate method I noticed underneath the eggs where they rested on the egg crate, water droplets were on the eggs from the humidity not from the wet perlite. You would not notice it unless you lifted the eggs and looked. It does not seem to bother the eggs, but it bothered me, 
There is NO one way of incubating eggs as long as you abide by the basic principals.
sorry about your loss of eggs,
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RE: First clutch of '09 a disaster - RoyalVariations, Mon May 18 15:37:27 2009