Well, most people turn 3x a day... that said, hens turn their eggs 50+ times a day, most auto turners turn every 4 hours or so... if you put the eggs in a styro carton and prop one end against the side of the turner (or on a rock or second styro corton- do not use wood or cardboard) you can easily turn them all by simply turning the carton around... mark each end well! I made a hole about the size of a dime in the bottom of each cup when I did mine, and I removed the cover and trimmed as much as I dared- basically a "V" on the side of each cup to give the eggs air... but not so much I could not lift the whole thing w/ confidence. I turned mine an even number (4) of times per day... easier to see if I had forgotten that way. If you want to do MANY eggs with this method, you rock the cartons side to side- I used a piece of styro from a package to act as my prop in this case, people also use pvc pipe,
* not my photo- I can only assume the weird thing in the middle is a fish tank temp probe made into an "egg temp" thermometer
you can do nearly as many eggs as a turner would hold using this method.
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