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I have three females ready to lay eggs in my class and I wanted to know if anyone opens their nesting box and watches? Is it safe? I would love to give my class the opportunity to watch as the eggs are being laid. Any thoughts would be appreciated1

Brian

It stresses the female and could lead to egg-binding, which is a life-threatening condition.

This sort of thing is what egg cams are for.

Paul Hollander

If I did an egg cam, I'd stream it and encode it. Basically scramble the signal with a code for people to view.

So I would have a scrambled egg cam.

OK, a collective BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

tom

Can you give me more information on where to get an egg cam?

Thanks!

Brian

just a web cam pointed at the nest. Software to record to a pc is usually included. True streaming is expensive. But I have done web cams where it refreshs to a page every 30 seconds.

you can also go thru yahoo, I think? There chat has an easy way to stream. Your ISP will not like it, as it takes a lot of upload bandwidth..

Just look up web cams. But you will not find many pointed at eggs lol
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tom

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I use a rubbermaid container, I pack it tight with damp moss and put duct tape around the sides to help keep it dark, when I need to check on them I very slowly and carefully pull the nest box out and look from underneath, U can usually tell whats going on that way, if she is laying, finished hasn't begun etc..animal in the pic is my Red Tiger Hognose.