Half Shell Hatch-A-Long! (Caution, unsuccessful, please read whole thread before attempting)

[MGG]

That makes sense, I can tip my janoel because the bottom is solid. Lol. When I made mine I cut the sides down so it’s just the cups, and I popped a hole in the bottom. I don’t think it matters so much as long as you’re using the cardboard type cartons; they breathe a bit anyways.
You’ve probably seen the way some people turn them with 2 carton trays and extra or fake eggs underneath? Something like that might work for you too... it’ll depend on how much space you have in there I guess.
Lol. All speculation, I haven’t done this before either. xD

I have a MagicFly (Janoel) too. Here's a picture of my incubator. There's some room. It's not too tall though.

Here's it next to the janoel.

 

[MGG]

@TheOddOneOut

 

[TheOddOneOut]

@TheOddOneOut

Aha! Found it.

 

[MGG]

@Gallinarium

 

[MGG]

@HeatherKellyB do you want to follow/try?

 

[MGG]

Ok, my two eggs are developing! Day 3 today.
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These little things never fail to amaze me. Yesterday nothing was visible, and today, voila! I have an egg carton too. I'm just going to use half of the carton it think. Only use 2 slots and the other slots can stabilize it. @SnapdragonQ since you have an NR, and you've hatched upright, how do I go about this? Do I need to do a lot of air holes in the carton? How much do I need to tip them? There's enough room for a carton, right?

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Ok, my two eggs are developing! Day 3 today.
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These little things never fail to amaze me. Yesterday nothing was visible, and today, voila! I have an egg carton too. I'm just going to use half of the carton it think. Only use 2 slots and the other slots can stabilize it. @SnapdragonQ since you have an NR, and you've hatched upright, how do I go about this? Do I need to do a lot of air holes in the carton? How much do I need to tip them? There's enough room for a carton, right?

You have a tiny bit more room than my model, but still, I could not fit a carton with either end propped up at all. Instead I tried a few things...I cut down a carton to a few cups (with parts of the bottom removed for ventilation) but those were wobbly, and I cut little cardboard "holders" to attach to the tuner so the egg was not sitting in one spot because we know all incubators have warmer/cooler spots.

The flat cardboard holder is what I went with, think those little cardboard trays flats you put the dyed eggs in from those cheap Easter egg coloring kits. I had one shipped egg that needed to be upright, however because the turner still had to turn and function normally for the rest of the eggs, I counter balanced with one of my flock eggs on the opposite side of the turner.

The special egg ended up being infertile, but my flock egg developed and hatched fine. I started with the eggs at a slight angle and just twisted the eggs 5 to 7 times a day initially, then started tipping my flock egg at like day 7 I think. I'll check my notes....
I'll also go see if I still have the pics...brb...

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Forgot, I posted the pics here on page 72 of the NR360 thread-
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...60-incubator-is-amazing.1294466/post-22826616

Hopefully this helps. In the second pic you can see the other upright egg in the background- opposite the blue egg up front. The turner worked just fine as long as there was a counter balance egg.

And the pics of the "tubes" were ideas I considered in case I was not going to use the turner at all. The little toilet paper tubes helped hold the egg more securely than a cut down cup (or 2) from a carton and allowed better twisting and tipping because of the size of my flock's eggs which are very large to almost XL.

 

[MGG]

Forgot, I posted the pics here on page 72 of the NR360 thread-
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...60-incubator-is-amazing.1294466/post-22826616

Hopefully this helps. In the second pic you can see the other upright egg in the background- opposite the blue egg up front. The turner worked just fine as long as there was a counter balance egg.

And the pics of the "tubes" were ideas I considered in case I was not going to use the turner at all. The little toilet paper tubes helped hold the egg more securely than a cut down cup (or 2) from a carton and allowed better twisting and tipping because of the size of my flock's eggs which are very large to almost XL.

Awesome, thank you so much!!! So should I use the TP tubes then? These eggs are pretty big.

 

[MGG]

You have a tiny bit more room than my model, but still, I could not fit a carton with either end propped up at all. Instead I tried a few things...I cut down a carton to a few cups (with parts of the bottom removed for ventilation) but those were wobbly, and I cut little cardboard "holders" to attach to the tuner so the egg was not sitting in one spot because we know all incubators have warmer/cooler spots.

The flat cardboard holder is what I went with, think those little cardboard trays flats you put the dyed eggs in from those cheap Easter egg coloring kits. I had one shipped egg that needed to be upright, however because the turner still had to turn and function normally for the rest of the eggs, I counter balanced with one of my flock eggs on the opposite side of the turner.

The special egg ended up being infertile, but my flock egg developed and hatched fine. I started with the eggs at a slight angle and just twisted the eggs 5 to 7 times a day initially, then started tipping my flock egg at like day 7 I think. I'll check my notes....
I'll also go see if I still have the pics...brb...

I think I know what you're talking about. I'll see what I can come up with.