Automatic Turners?

[daxoxa]

So recently I've been trying to hatch some of the eggs are chickens lay to try and build up our flock. So I started using our automatic turner, and I've been able to get the eggs to day 18 with living embryos, but it seems like as soon as I remove them from the turners, which they're in a virticle position, to laying on the wire, a horizontal position, they die and never make it to hatch. Is the sudden position change somehow killing them, and if so is there a way I can help it and still use the automatic turners?

 

[Pyxis]

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No, it wouldn't be the position doing it. Can you give us more information, like what temperature you are using, whether the incubator is still air or forced, and your humidity?

 

[paneubert]

I am going to guess small air cells due to high humidity drowning the chicks. They are ok until they need to breathe.