Re: so completely fed up..
Keep your chin up, my first clutch which was unexpected, was set up poorly on my part and last minute, all of them ended up dying, so this year i was determined to get it to work, i def had some problems, but looking back to what i did last year i was able to fix the problem. Everything happens for a reason, and you have to be willing to learn from your mistakes. I know from your posts you are very passionate about your animals, it sounds to me that you are on the right track, keep pluggin and it will work out.
~mike