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How about some incubation info- what are YOU doing?

5rings Apr 17, 2005 08:00 PM

I have been absent for a few weeks and in the interim my brain got a little busy and started a little fight with itself. Guess who won? I just got out of the mental ward yesterday. The question that started the fight was the issue of incubation. I am sorely tempted to let some eggs incubate "au naturale". What are you using for incubation methods and what kind of results are you having? I asked my wife if she would set on them but no luck- the nerve of some people.

Steve
probably soon to be divorced

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Amelia Apr 18, 2005 02:36 PM

We always remove the eggs from the females, that way we can guarentee most if not all to hatch out. You can keep the temps at a steady and constant temp, plus by removing them you can get the females back onto food faster than if she was incubating the eggs herself for the time that it takes, plus I suppose that they could get messy, say the female were to do her business on them. But I would go with incubating them yourself, that way you have a better chance of getting them all to hatch out.

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