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[Brookhavens]

OK : Question lovely people .......... when it's time for lockdown, I have done both ie kept them in the turner (upright) and laid them on their sides and feel like I have had better luck with them upright - but that may just be me .... what do you guys recommend, from your experience, keep in the turner upright to hatch (obviously with turner switched off) or taken out of the turner and laid on their sides?

I have always left them upright. They don't get knocked around as much. I've read where the hatched chicks will roll an egg so that the pip ends up being downward and the chick inside died. Roxanne was this you?

 

[StacyTN]

Thing I would be afraid of if left on turner, even turned off, is that once they start wiggling around etc. they could get a foot or head, or some how stuck in the holes, side or spaces etc. That would stress me out eveb more.

 

[Overoberyl]

I know I am on day 20 but set my eggs in the evening so probably late tomorrow or the next day. Unfortunately my hatcher lost temp down to 99 degrees overnight. I hope things will till be ok.

I think 99 degrees is still in the safe zone, no?

 

[StacyTN]

P. S. this time aroound my husband brought me home 3 different pieces of "egg crate" foam, different thicknessess. I went with the whote piece that was the thinner of them. In the grooves (think about a real egg cartn where the bowl part the egg sits in) I cut out little holes to allow for ventilaton from below.
Because of the egg crate shape, but not as deep, I was able to set the eggs not quite flat but then again not completely upright. I did this mainly because I freaked on my last (1st) hatching when the hatched chicks would knock around the unhatched.
It worked really well, hardly any other eggs getting rolled & knocked around once they started hatching out.

I would love to design a silicone piece, similiar in shape to an upside cupcake pan, but modified in shape, size depth for this exact purpose.

 

[SunnySkies]

All is quiet here. Bator must like being in the basement, as the temp holds perfectly at 100 and the humidity is 60%. It is gorgeous weather here, but it's more humid than the desert, kwim.

The downside(or maybe upside) of having it in the bator is that it makes it hard to press my face against the glass all.day.long because most of what I need to do is upstairs. But.....and here is my plan....kids and I are going to have a clean-the-basement day tomorrow. I don't expect anythng until Friday though.

 

[Brookhavens]

I have to add that I use egg cartons with the bottoms cut out to hatch mine upright. They are not in a turner. I took a cooling rack (think cookies here) and covered it with shelf liner and then place the egg carton on top of that. They get air circulation from underneath and when the chicks hatch the shelf liner has great traction and it keeps their feet from falling through the holes in the cooling rack.

Edit: Someone on BYC uses cupcake papers to hatch out their eggs.

 

[Brookhavens]

I would love to design a silicone piece, similiar in shape to an upside cupcake pan, but modified in shape, size depth for this exact purpose.

You mean something like this? Silicone Mold

 

[wayne813]

this would be the green egger i was waiting on..it was a project with my brother copper merran rooster and my wheaten americaunas hen,im waiting on one more of theirs and my bantams here r pics.

dad




mom


now the one baby


its all black with half white tiped wings.. cant wait

 

[Brookhavens]

this would be the green egger i was waiting on..it was a project with my brother copper merran rooster and my wheaten americaunas hen,im waiting on one more of theirs and my bantams here r pics.

dad




mom


now the one baby


its all black with half white tiped wings.. cant wait

awwwwww.

 

[Kel35]

Mum dad and baby are lovely xxx