Add eggs to incubator after other eggs have went in it?

[Naturegirl37658]

I've got a predicament. I have 2 Little Giant Still Air incubators and they have been working great for me. I keep schedules of when eggs were put in, turned, candled, ect. This morning one of them quit working IDK why but I've 24 hatching eggs in it that were put in 6 days ago. My second incubator is working fine and has 15 eggs in it that were put in 10 days ago. Because their lock down dates are 4 days apart can I still put the 24 into the working incubator with the 15 that went in on a earlier date?

 

[nchls school]

It can work out OK. Lockdown is not something that has to be exact. Broody hens don't lockdown and their eggs hatch. My wife sticks eggs in the incubator whenever and somehow they hatch. My advice is to start lockdown when scheduled if you have an automatic egg turner, be quick when removing chicks, and hope for the best. If the humidity around the incubator is close to the humidity inside-so much the better.

 

[nchls school]

We leave the egg turner in the incubator during hatch; just be sure to watch for any chick that gets into trouble. We rarely have had a problem.