Hatching Eggs at school

[MeLydia]

I'm going to be helping my son's 4th grade class hatch eggs soon. I'm concerned about the weekends. I won't be able to check on them. And one of the weekends is 3 day (Good Friday). Should I bring the incubator home on the weekends?

 

[Debbie292d]

I'm going to be helping my son's 4th grade class hatch eggs soon. I'm concerned about the weekends. I won't be able to check on them. And one of the weekends is 3 day (Good Friday). Should I bring the incubator home on the weekends?

It depends if it has auto humidity. If so, then not a problem. If not, they'd go two to three days with very low humidity.

If you have a janitor or someone who goes in on weekends you could show what to do, that would help. I'd be afraid that moving an incubator full of developing eggs back and forth is going to affect your hatch rate.

 

[Susan Skylark]

I left a batch of quail eggs in the incubator and left for a week, they did just fine. I would think packing them up and moving them would be more stressful to the eggs than letting them sit over a long weekend. Assuming your auto turner is working of course. And if you have one of those fancy app controlled thermometers you can even monitor temp from a distance. Humidity isn’t a huge issue until lockdown, if it drops or spikes for a couple days it won’t wreck your hatch.