Well, I guess I'm kinda lucky in that respect. If my motor quit, I would surely know. It makes so much darned noise I would notice the peace and quiet!
The way it was explained to me for hand turning is instead of just rolling them from one side to the other, you 'flip' it over, keeping the big end down. So you are still turning it to the other side, it's just get more motion in it I guess. But there are many people that use auto turners with...
The temp is the same for just about any type of fowl. The difference with waterfowl is they need it to be lowered the last 3 days, to 98 instead of 99.5. Most duck eggs take 28 days to hatch, so you'll stop turning them on end of day 25. I have heard to turn them big end over, instead of just...