at what day do you lock down

[jimmythechicken]

what day do you lock down and what day will they hatch we just put 3 in the bator yesterday

 

[DMFarm]

Jimmy
I leave my in the turner till they start piping the only reason I take them out then is to keep them seperate so I will know what pen they are out of. It is not important to stop turning the eggs when a hen set on eggs they are turn till the day they hatch. They start hatching here at day 26.

 

[jimmythechicken]

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should i up the humidity?

 

[DMFarm]

My humidity run around 50% all the time some say up it because that what they heard but I don't. I have a friend that hatch over 700 peachicks last year and he never put water in the incubator during the day it would run around 20% and at night aroung 30% humidity if you get to much humidity it will drown the chicks.

 

[Choctaw Valley Farm]

I agree, I have neverstood this lockdown stuff because for one I have never seen a hen stop turning her eggs also have never seen one change the humidity.

 

[deerman]

thing about lock down, eggs don't need turn the last 3 day, doesn't hurt if they are, lock down is more to not open incucbators. I move eggs to hatcher trays last 3 days, no mixed up on chicks either as eggs are in seperate trays by pens.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

I'm going to lockdown on day 25...I'll move them to my hatcher in the house.


Today is day 22 for my pea eggs...I live in the SE Panhandle...when should I stop turning them?

 

[MinxFox]

I think it is like day three when you stop turning them. Have you candled them yet, how do they look? I hope you get a good hatch.