I hatched upright. Started with 16 eggs. Had 10 clears. 6/6 in lockdown hatched. I hatched upright in a carton and all pipped on the right end. I had one assist because she was shrink wrapped after pipping externally because I opened the incubator too soon. She was pipped for 36 hours before I assisted.I am no expert by any means, only hatched once before using my same set up. The previous hatch, as well as his one were from shipped eggs. On the previous eggs, had a lot of detached air cells but most of the chucked grew until the end. Unfortunately I had 8 die at the end I believe when I took them out of the carton and laid them down on their side to hatch. They were fully formed etc. I had 10 out of 30 make it on that hatch. Would have been 18/30.
This hatch I started with 32 eggs. 14 clears, 1 blood ring, and 1 exploded egg. I'm down to 16 viable eggs which show great movement every time I candle, and yes, I have candled on day 10, 11, 13, 14, and 16. Day 17 for me now. I left two eggs in the carton on my prior hatch and they hatched without any problems. I am thinking of doing the same thing on this hatch but we'll see how it goes. The air cells on the remaining 16 eggs look real good. I may play it by ear so to speak.
Anyone else leave their eggs in a carton or turner in an upright position to hatch? I use a standard cardboard? carton, not styrofoam.
These pics were from before I removed the clears, blood ring one and exploded egg.
Update: 20 out, 6 more have piped, 5 are internally piped and 1 upon candling looks to be a late bloomer, at 1pm marks day 21 so I am very happy with this incubation.. If all but that last one hatches I will have a 99% hatchrate of those that made it to lockdown... I think I am figuring it out and hopefully will be ready when the Turkeys start laying in the spring... Although I have done this now because I have been able to sell the chicks I am really doing it to get what to do and not do because the turkeys are the money shot and I want to be able to hatch out every fertile egg
