Eggs on Eggs in Bator?

[cattbird]

I have an incubator that holds 7-8 small eggs.

Someone has taken pity on my recent hatching mess up and given me 6 black mini Silkie eggs, she says she is not sure if they are fertile as the last batch sent out was 100% infertile, but rather than eat she would send to me.. for free

They were put in bator yesterday (Sunday)

I have purchased 6 white mini Silkie eggs, due to arrive tomorrow (Tuesday) So be batorised Wednesday...

Could I put the white eggs on top of the blacks until I know if any of the blacks were fertile? How soon could I tell. Obviously I don't want to jeapordise all of the eggs chances and if all are fertile I would quickly get another bator, it would never be for more than a few days!

What do you think??

 

[FenDruadin]

Hmmm... I don't know definitively, but my understanding is they are supposed to be in a single layer--it is how the mother hen would do it. But maybe someone on here has tried it successfully--I just don't know. Can you get another 'bator before Wednesday? Sounds like you're going to need a larger incubator!

 

[Mosti]

I do put eggs on top of each other in my incubator. I put another wire mesh layer on top of the actual one and it works good. I usually put the next batch of hacthing eggs on the top layer and put quail eggs in with the chickens' too. It works out for me...

 

[Whitehouse Quail]

For hatching quail, we put a wire shelf on top of the chicken eggs so we don't have to switch bators. I bet it would work, but how would you turn them?