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Eggs in the cooker

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Darin Chappell

Very Senior Hillbilly
Well, my first clutch of the year is now in the cooker! My creamsicle female laid ten, though three appear to be a bit yellowish right now. They're in the hovabater and ready to hatch sometime around June 25th. I'll be selling these babies locally for about $30-$40 each. Can't wait for my other breeding female to drop her eggs in a week or so!

Next year, I'll have five female breeders, and the year after that will find me with eleven breeding females! I'll be giving Ol' Rich a run for his money before too long! :D

Later -- Darin
 
geeze remind me to wear my computer glasses. I thought this said Eggs coocked in Butter....dont ask me how!!!!???But it did take a second look!!!
 
LOL giving Rich the run for his money...:eek:
ya... right... LOL but anyways... hey Darin so you use a Hovabator? I dont even know what that is... is it selfexplanitory on how to use them? I need some info for next year... next year I should have about 4 females ready to do their thing... thanks
 
Hey Joe,

Yeah, you can pick up a hovabator at nearly any farm supply store, and they come with instructions on how to set them up. I would order an insert or two for them, however. The inserts can be picked up through bigappleherp.com, and they make the inside height capacity of the incubator bigger. They're fairly cheap too.

I found that one hovabator (about $50 with an insert) can hold two fair sized clutches of eggs with no over crowding. This year so far I have hatched two clutches of eggs totalling 23. One was a slug, two died in the eggs, and the other twenty hatched perfectly at 83 degrees. That's a 91% hatch rate, and about as good as one can expect, in my opinion.

Good luck -- Darin
 
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