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Incubating and hatching in egg cartons?

Discussion in 'Incubating & Hatching Eggs' started by harleyjo, Mar 14, 2012.

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  1. Mar 14, 2012 #1
    harleyjo

    harleyjo Chillin' With My Peeps

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    How many of you incubate and hatch in egg cartons? I am on my 3rd or 4th incubation, at lock down now. I plan to start another batch next week. I would like to do a larger batch next time but think in order to get all the eggs in I want I am going to have to use egg cartons. I don't have an egg turner so if I hatch in egg cartons I will have to prop sides to change postitions on the eggs.

    Thoughts?
     
  3. Mar 15, 2012 #2
    rebelcowboysnb

    rebelcowboysnb Confederate Money Farm Premium Member

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    That kind of incubator are you using?
     
  5. Mar 15, 2012 #3
    chkinut

    chkinut Chillin' With My Peeps

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    i don't turn my eggs in cartons....although i know people do. i have an egg turner. but i DO hatch in cartons and i love it! the eggs stay in one spot, clean up is easier, and the partying chicks don't play soccer with the ones not hatched yet.
     
  7. Mar 15, 2012 #4
    comptonsgonecountry

    comptonsgonecountry Chillin' With My Peeps

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    That is what I do... incubate and hatch in cartons. I use a large book to prop up the side of the incubator from the outside. I switch sides 3-4 times a day. I have 3 hatches going in egg cartons now. One is due this Saturday! My last hatch was two weeks ago and I had a 75% hatch rate in cartons. My best hatch so far!
     
  9. Mar 15, 2012 #5
    harleyjo

    harleyjo Chillin' With My Peeps

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    I have a Hovabator still air, I think 1602n or something like that. However that said, after my first hatch I got one of those 4 inch personal fans from walmart to set in there to circulate the air. I also do not have a turner.
     
  11. Mar 15, 2012 #6
    redhen689

    redhen689 Chillin' With My Peeps

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    I am currently incubating in cartons.
    This is my first time doing this.
    I had planned to move them out of the cartons for lockdown, but from what I'm reading here, I guess that might not be necessary.
     
  13. Mar 15, 2012 #7
    CarolJ

    CarolJ Dogwood Trace Farm

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    I use a turner for incubating, but I put them in cartons at lockdown - so they hatch in cartons. That's the only way I've ever done it.
     
  15. Mar 16, 2012 #8
    tinaschiks

    tinaschiks Out Of The Brooder

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    ok i am very new at this and i cant have a rooster where i live so i bought 12 fertilized eggs and was told to set them in the nest i have a hen who is sitting but i have lost 2 of the fertile eggs to smashing and my girls keep laying should i buy another nest or hatch eggs another way?
     
  17. Mar 16, 2012 #9
    bobbi-j

    bobbi-j Chicken Obsessed

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    If you don't have any broody hens, they won't set. You need to get an incubator to be able to hatch when you want to.
     

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