Egg Turner Stopped Working During Incubation

[quailheart]

Hello everyone, I’ve kind of been in panic mode when I recently found out that my egg turner is not working. It’s day 2 of incubation, we are incubating around 30 quail eggs, and the egg turner has not been working since day 0. I never thought anything of it since it turns so slowly, I thought I had just happened to look at it while it was tilting one direction every time. It’s Easter today and all the farm stores near me are closed, but tomorrow I hope to go out and get a replacement for my egg turner or a whole new incubator if I have to. I guess my question is, will this setback affect the hatch? Will it lower the hatch rate? Again it’s only day 2 of incubation, glad I caught it early-ish! Also it would be very helpful if y’all could answer brutally honest. I just want to know how bad this hatch will be! Thank you for your help! I appreciate it.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I think it will be fine. Honestly.
It shouldn't affect your hatch rate at all, it's a good thing you caught it early on so you can get to turning them now.

 

[peepdaddy]

I don't believe it will cause any problems. If you can't find a turner, or another incubator, quickly then you could always take them out of the broken turner and turn them manually in the meantime.

 

[Iluveggers]

Which incubator do you have?

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Theres people who stack hatch and never turn their eggs your fine

 

[quailheart]

Ok! Glad to hear that everything should be alright! I may have overreacted a bit since when I was researching about turning eggs every post made it seem like turning your eggs was a huge deal and if you didn't do it correctly it might ruin your hatch. For anyone wondering, this is my incubator that I'm using. It's a cheap little thing but it works fine for what I'm using it for. Thank you to everyone who replied!

 

[Coops Dad]

There are some people who claim that turning eggs is unnecessary and chickens don't really "turn" eggs as much as accidentally shuffle them as they reposition themselves on the nest.

I Use a Nurture Right 360 and accidentally installed the turner wrong once. I could hear the turner make its noise every 4 hours and assumed it was working. After the hatch as I was breaking it down for cleaning, I discovered my mistake. That hatch went 17/22 with 3 duds and 2 that quit early. No defective or malformed chicks. Take that for what it's worth.

IDK why italics.

 

[Iluveggers]

May want to google how to reset your incubator. I have read with the NR360 if you don’t reset the turner wont work correctly!

 

[Coops Dad]

May want to google how to reset your incubator. I have read with the NR360 if you don’t reset the turner wont work correctly!

I installed the bottom tray upside down and it didn't allow the turner ring to engage the turner shaft.

 

[peepdaddy]

Which incubator do you have?

I have an old FI incubator from a yard sale (bought for $10.00) and a homemade one I built. They each have a tray style turner that holds 42 eggs. I don't even remember where these turners came from but I believe I bought one with an incubator I bought new around 15 years ago and I think one came with the yard sale incubator. The turners are the only things that are reliable in either incubator.