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JustinMitcham
at Tue Jul 14 21:05:18 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by JustinMitcham ]
vermiculite...
I tried using a different incubation method.
Instead of wetting the medium I placed a deli with water in the container.
I had some bad luck with some of the eggs in this clutch so I switched them to this method a couple weeks ago.
Although I won't be able to really tell how well this worked on this clutch I been incubating my 2nd clutches this way and I am having MUCH better results. In fact my 2x clutches usually are a little flakey compared with the 1st go round..For example 1st clucth is 20 second maybe 15 with some eggs going bad at a higher rate than the 1st clutch..but so far out of a dozen second clutches kept this way I have only lost a couple eggs..no mold or fungus are growing even on the eggs that died.
I believe hog eggs have a hard time with excessive moisture.
 ----- Justin Mitcham
ExtremeHogs.com
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