Are you going to be doing the same thing? If a couple people are, we should start a thread for staggering hatches in the same bator, so even future people cant look back if they have questions, and if thing go terribly wrong (knock on wood they wont) at least i will be able to see what happened and make it a learning experienceI've gotten a bit worried about lockdown myself. but all the time i must say, I've wondered the same thing. a hen doesn't lockdown and her humidity doesn't increase does it?
well, my bator is so full, i had to take out the egg turner. i have 16 shipped silkie eggs, 12 shipped EE eggs, 7 local bantams and i THINK 36 barnyard mixes in there (local). so i can't have a staggered hatch this time. but i think it would be an EXCELLENT experiment to learn from! what i CAN do though is do nothing different at lockdown, just stop turning. that's another question i have had in the past though.....do the hens stop turning near the end?
