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Are the Wyandotte eggs larger than the Barnevelder eggs? Sometimes that little bit of extra time it takes for warmth to penetrate an egg due to its larger size is enough to make a noticeable difference in development early on. And I agree, some just are prone to developing faster than others in...

Oh, how pretty! Lots of heterozygosity in that coloration, though, so I could see it being quite challenging to breed. I should have known to check Porters for obscure turkey colors! 🤭

Woohoo! Glad to hear it! :yesss: Hopefully they keep going strong for you :fl Out of curiosity, do you have a picture or any info you could link about painted turkeys? I'm actually not sure what they look like and all I'm finding with searches are paintings of turkeys. 😅

The chicken eggs I've gotten with jiggly air cells have not hatched super well, either, unfortunately. :hmm I found that they did best if I kept them tilted but upright in a clean egg carton in the incubator, and sort of rolled them back and forth by hand in the carton a few times a day to turn...

I've heard the same about the cradle motor. Here's hoping you have better success with it! :fl When I first got my Octagon, I hatched maybe one time a year at most, so manually turning it (by rolling the whole incubator!) a few times a day for a few weeks was no big deal for me. Now I hatch...

Woohoo!! :yesss: I only have the basic model of Octagon without the auto turner or humidity pump, but it's a favorite of mine for sure!

Definitely hear that, I'm chomping at the bit ready to fire up my incubators and I have a grand total of one Cochin even laying right now. 🤭 I guess until my birds finally pick up laying, I'll be living vicariously through y'all. :pop

This is an issue with the similarly-designed Ovation turners as well. I think it's just a problem with that style of turner rail, it's just never going to fit every egg just right. With the Ovation rails, I lean the eggs just enough to one side that even though there's a gap at one end they...

I've never had any of the issues others here have mentioned having with their Brinseas with my Ovation 28 eco, for the record. Mine always heats up fast, keeps a steady temperature, and my eggs develop perfectly in it. 🙂 The only real issue I've had with it is that it's a little finicky about...

A lot of things I didn't think of and that make a lot of sense. Thank you for the detailed response! The autoturner is the one thing that I really love about my Ovation over my Octagon. The autoturner for the Octagon models was terrible and I read so many horror stories of them failing...

With the quantity you hatch, do you prefer having multiple smaller incubators or one big cabinet incubator like the sportsman for the same number of eggs? That's something I was looking into recently as I'd like to upsize in the next few years but I don't know if I want to shell out (no pun...