Advice needed.. chick eggs in incubator at different growth stages

[cheryl026]

I started to incubate about 13 eggs 2 weeks ago..

and then ....... one of my hens who was sitting on 7 eggs decided to quit,

So I candled them and they are all at different growth stages due to other hens laying eggs with her.

So now I have all these chick eggs at different growth stages, and am concerned about lock down.

What do I do? keep turning the eggs until hatch day (May8) or stop for a few days on May 4 or 5 , until some hatch?

 

[A Chicken Owner]

Never turn an egg after day 18. So you're going to have to leave the other eggs during lockdown

 

[cheryl026]

Thanks for the reply, I hope the chicks make it!

 

[199787]

Due to slowness on my part my eggs turned till day 20 when I finally got their hatcher set up and stable. They were fine. However your best bet is to get a second bator for hatching since hatching makes a huge mess and it could comtaminate much younger eggs.