Mixed batch hatching

[Greeneyedgirll]

I am hatching 12 chicken eggs but both from a different batch. The second batch went in exactly 10 days after the first one. Now I am at a stage where I do not know what to do during lockdown with the first batch which starts this Thursday . I am using Triwind automatic incubator.

How do I turn the other eggs? What about the temperature and humidity during lockdown? Is high humidity ok for the second batch at that stage? What if the eggs are kicked around by the hatched chicks?

I do have another incubator but highly unreliable for heat and humidity as caused a lot of casualties in the last (and my first) hatch .

 

[Huntmaster]

This is called a staggered hatch and not easily managed without a second incubator to use as a hatcher.

 

[Silkiebegins]

I am hatching 12 chicken eggs but both from a different batch. The second batch went in exactly 10 days after the first one. Now I am at a stage where I do not know what to do during lockdown with the first batch which starts this Thursday . I am using Triwind automatic incubator.

How do I turn the other eggs? What about the temperature and humidity during lockdown? Is high humidity ok for the second batch at that stage? What if the eggs are kicked around by the hatched chicks?

I do have another incubator but highly unreliable for heat and humidity as caused a lot of casualties in the last (and my first) hatch .

I don't know if your eggs already hatched but I also did that. You just have to manually turn them every 2 hours if possible. What I did for my incubator is I have a turning tray with adjustable bars and I just made it tight enough to where it snugs the egg without damaging it. I do that until it pips and then after it pips I manually turn the other eggs.