Ok, I am going to be mean again, hahahahahahahaha this is odd to me. You guys take something easy, like hatching hog eggs and make it all complicated and such. Yet, take the part that needs some work, the actual cage(including nesting) and make it as simple as HUMANLY possible.

As I mentioned, when I was young and new at this, we put eggs in plastic bags, with moist sphagnum moss and tied a knot to close the bag, and threw them on a shelf and they hatched without problem. I guess we were to dumb to understand many things, like fans and air exchange etc. But they HATCHED just fine, oh except the larger species also hatched out of the bags too.

The key is, healthy eggs hatch, unhealthy eggs are work and may not hatch. All the dinking around in the world is not going to change that. Folks think it helps to fool around with making incubation all complicated, when its simple. They hatch in a friggin hole in the ground. And it is that simple.

How about taking all this thought and effort and putting that into your cages. Sorry for the rant, but there are other types of reptile eggs that are a bit more demanding, hognose eggs are not them.

Also, there is real benefit to hatching quicker, the longer the eggs stay eggs, the higher the chance of something happening. They are designed to hatch fast, not slow. Yet, they can overwinter too. Can you do that?

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