Have you ever slipped a few new eggs into your bator when it's a week along?

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Tytyvyllus

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I was calibrating my new brinsea incubator with barnyard eggs from a friend's farm while waiting for my Hedamora eggs to show up and some of the really nice looking barnyard-ers turned out to be viable (huge eggs with a nice seafoam green tint, and a similarly huge pink one with slight blue speckling)...so I left em in when I put in the Hedamoras.
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Then I ordered an emergency back up bubble bator that's all nice and clear so we can get a good view on the action when they get to hatching.
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Now I'm hoping my second bator is going to show up before lockdown so I can put the locked down eggs in the bubble bater and keep the fancy Hedamoras in the brinsea. I don't know if the emergency back up bator is going to arrive in time!

How would you handle it if you only had one bator and two sets of eggs a week apart in it? We're on day 12 for the barnyard and day 7 for the Hedamoras.
 
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A week apart is fine. You can up the humidity on day 19 and continue to turn the later eggs till you get the first pip. Then just keep it closed. The hatching chicks will play soccer with the eggs so that may count as turning. Once they all hatch, get them out and continue turning.
 
I do staggered hatches all the time... If you don't have an automatic egg turner you are going to have to skip lockdown (lockdown is not necessary) and keep turning the later eggs... Keep a spray bottle full of warm water handy and give the incubator a few squirts after you open it up to restore humidity...
 
I didn't realize you could skip lockdown! I've got a brinsea octo set into the rocking auto egg turner. I'll just pull it out of the rocker and set it flat once I get pips!
 
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The backup bubble got here on time! Woo! I'm still going to leave one in the other to try out the idea of split/rolling hatches. Tomorrow is day 18. I'm very very impatient for this weekend to arrive!
 
Interesting. Pipped wrong end. I see you're doing fine. The only thing I'd add is: if doing a staggered hatch, I'd wait until at least an internal pip before increasing the humidity.
 
lazy gardener said:
The only thing I'd add is:  if doing a staggered hatch, I'd wait until at least an internal pip before increasing the humidity.  
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I have never had any adverse air sack development issues when raising the humidity for a day or two or even 4 or 6 days for multiple staggered hatches... Humidity should be evaluated as an average over the entire incubation period, temporary highs and temporary lows essentially negate each other or just slightly effect the overall incubation periods humidity...
 

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