Egg Turner only half turning?

[pointsalamander]

So I am borrowing an old Hova-bator. Every time I looked the eggs were in the same spot, no matter what time of day it was. I moved around a white bar on the top and now at least its seems that maybe possibly the turner is half working? My husband has been checking the eggs and he says he sees them leaning to the left of the incubator, and then get to straight up, but he never sees them leaning to the right.

They are at day 7. I am not sure if they were moving at all before that. Now they are maybe doing just halfway.

Is that going to be enough? Should I ditch the turner and try hand turning? Should I leave the turner in and just rotate the egg in the holder?

Advice would be welcome. I've never hatched eggs, and I'm thinking this is not going to turn out well. But its for my daughters 1st grade science experiment. (there are only 3 eggs in the incubator, I put 3 others under the hen and she broke one so at most I'm getting 5 babies at this point)

The photo is of the one poor eggs getting a nightly photo. I think it takes me all of 2 minutes to open take photo and put back. That was day 6's photo. So they look okay at this point to me.

 

[chickens really]

Looks good I only hand turn twice a day..

 

[Alaskan]

If the egg turner holds the eggs firmly enough ... I would turn it off when it is in the upright position, and then rotate the eggs by putting a fat book under one side of the incubator, so the incubator is as close to a 45 degree angle as you can get. Then swap the book to the other side of the incubator so the incubator is again at a 45 degree angle, but from the other side.

This will rotate all of the eggs quickly!

The more you rotate the eggs the better, but yes, they can manage to hatch with less rotation.

By the way, good photo of the veins, and yes it looks good.

 

[pointsalamander]

Good news! I fiddled with the white bar thing a bit more... I actually got to see them do a full rotation so I have hope they are moving.

And one of the eggs was bouncing around in there a lot so I'm assuming they aren't stuck in the egg.

 

[Alaskan]

Very nice