Do I have to keep turning these eggs by hand? Shipped eggs

[Newchickgrandma]

Day 7 and no quitters! My shipped eggs had air cells that had shifted but were not detached. I let them sit air cell up for more than 12 hours, and then 4 days in the incubator without turning. Now I am hand turning them 3x per day to keep them vertical. Can I just lay them on their side now and let the automatic turner take over?

 

[Newchickgrandma]

 

[Newchickgrandma]

Bump

 

[Newchickgrandma]

Bump

 

[DemeterAD9]

Not an expert, currently have my first batch in the incubator myself so going off of what I've seen/read/experienced. If the air cells are not detached (there are no bubbles free floating around) and none appear to be saddled air cells then I say it should be fine to let the automatic turner do the work.

 

[picanins]

Can I ask how your hatch turned out?

 

[Newchickgrandma]

We got 13 chicks! 12 of them are still alive and healthy. One had a slipped tendon and infected hock and sadly didn't make it.

 

[Newchickgrandma]

I believe possibly the other 7 would've hatched but the night the last chick and 7 eggs were in the incubator I made some mistake and it said the temp was only 96 8 days later I finally turned off the incubator and opened one of the eggs. Saw the fully formed chick and didn't open any more eggs.