I do not mean to offend any one---I just go by my results and post what I have seen. When I got into hatching heavier---every week---I had incubators in the house---in the mud room----next to the bedroom door and it got so bad with eggs rolling/chicks making noise during lock down it was keeping my wife awake a lot I slept through it most of the time. BUT while sitting in my chair watching TV----I would hear eggs rolling during the hatch. I had good hatches with the cheap Styrofoam incubators but soon built my cabinet incubator and hatcher you can see in the pic. I could set more eggs in them---at the start of using them I Mainly had 50 to 100 eggs in lock down per week, that was just to much egg rolling during lock down so I had to move the incubators to a out building. The first 4 weeks in my hatcher I hatched 100% with 102 eggs being my largest hatch at that time---the 5th week end I hatched 77 out of 78 eggs in lock down. When I walked in the out building after moving---during a lock down at Times I could hear eggs rolling before I open the door----I would go in and shine a light into the hatcher to see about how many had hatched and watch a few minutes---kept hearing eggs get knocked around.
One time I put 178 eggs in the hatcher, and for some reason a few did not hatch---I never for sure figured that out but felt I had the bleach mixed to strong when I cleaned the hatcher because I could still smell bleach inside after the hatch----so I blamed it on that----That made that hatch 95%. That was the lowest after getting serious into hatching I ever had. Example my next to the last hatch(my last hatch was a few pheasant eggs and hatched 100%) was 236 eggs in but I allowed/humored my 80 yr old Mother by allowing her to candled the eggs for her First Time helping me---3 eggs she questioned me about during the candling----I told her each time that egg was not any good----each time she would hold the egg and look at me and say it might hatch----I would say---OK I will mark it and put it in the hatcher for you. On day 22 when she went out with me to take the hatched chicks out---233 hatched, her 3 eggs did not. She said---well you were right. Yes there was a lot of knocking eggs and rolling in ever hatch.
But to answer your last question ----Yes I have open to remove the chicks on day 22 and have found a egg or two and some times 4 maybe 5 at the most out of a hundred to 278(don't remember which) that had pipped and not hatched. I just quickly(no chipping away at the shell) break them out the shell and put them back in to warm up/dry for a while---most all would dry off and be ok, but have lost 1 or 2 along and along after breaking them out.
So the reason I say It has never hurt my hatch for the Eggs rolling around is because I do not feel it does----just being honest.
please want advise i want to save this chick
