Hatch eggs in an egg carton??????

[antiquebuff]

Tried the cartons and went back to the original way. I had more success with it! Just lat a thin towel down on the screen and lay the eggs on top of it and they will not roll around.

 

[JudyMcKinn]

Kyle, I am sure you noticed this, but just in case--you cut the tops off the egg cartons, and just use the bottoms.

Now another question--I have 43 eggs in the bator (left after I candled at one week) They are 9 Seramas (the most important ones) 18 Silkie and 16 Spitzhaubens. The Seramas were mailed, and the Silkie and Spitz are from my chickens. I think I can get 3 1/2 egg cartons in the LG9200. Will it make any difference if there isn't much "floor space" where the cartons aren't sitting? Or is that too many to use the cartons on??

 

[needtohatch]

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Yup had wire screen in and it sank!

I have thought about using styro cartons, but read to use cardboard only.

Will keep reading up as wont set next batch till later this week. Hope it goes better this time!

filling the wells to over flowing does not increase the surface area.

volume of water makes no difference..

just fill the wells half full..

Will do that next time! I was worried about them going dry the last three days. I would have had trouble getting water in with the cartons covering the wells. I am planing better this time on where to put the cartons so I can still get to the wells if needed.

 

[roosty]

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Yup had wire screen in and it sank!

I have thought about using styro cartons, but read to use cardboard only.

Will keep reading up as wont set next batch till later this week. Hope it goes better this time!

I just tried the egg carton thing. I used styro cartons. They worked just fine. I also kept the eggs in the carton the whole time and just shifted them side to side. The hatch was much cleaner and easier. I liked it and will continue using that method.

 

[JudyMcKinn]

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I have a rubber mat type shelf liner, which is a sort of weave design, with holes all the way thru it. The eggs don't roll on it by themselves, but the hatched chicks roll the eggs all over, as they crawl and fall around thru them. Did the towel stop this?

 

[ingv8700]

Ok, so you take the cup part of the egg cartons so they just hold them up but not the whole thing just the cups correct. I think that is what everyone is saying?

also is rolling around not a good thing because i read that people have towels in the bottom to stop them from rolling around?

I am confused a little I thought them rolling around helped out a little?

thanks again
sorry so many questions

KYLE

 

[jvls1942]

If you are putting towels and mats in the bottom of your bators, aren't you blocking a lot of hum% from getting up to the eggs??

and if you lay the eggs directly on the wire mesh and the water was wicking up into the cartons, aren't the eggs now laying directly in the water?? and I seriously doubt that they absorb enough water in the last three days to drown the embryos.. the humidity had to have been too high earlier in the incubation time, already.. there are so many successes in using the cartons, that there must be something else to cause bad hatches.. people, you have to be more honest and research what you are doing and pay closer attention to your procedures...

 

[JudyMcKinn]

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Yes, everyone means just the cups--not the lid.
Rolling (or turning the eggs) is what you do for the first 18 days. But the rolling around we are talking about is when part of the chicks have already hatched, but some haven't yet. The hatched ones stumble all over, causing the unhatched eggs to roll around, and sometimes this messes up the chick inside, so he can't get turned to pip the egg.

 

[ingv8700]

Ok thanks for the help, I will try it!!

one more question does it matter which end goes in the bottom does the pointed end need to go down or does it matter???

 

[Jamie821]

I hatch all marans eggs laying on their sides as they have a tendency to pip wrong end due to shape of egg. I never hatch shipped eggs in anything but egg cartons for the reason that shipping messes up the shape of the air sacs. If you hatch shipped eggs in a egg carton it helps keep the air sacs up. If you have floating air sacs from shipping alot more chicks will make it in the egg carton hatching method.