I have 20 eggs ready to hatch in 4 days and I put in more
now I have 20 16 day old and 14 17 day old eggs in the same incubator (I don't have another one) what should I do when it is lock down!
x2 Unless you are saying that you have just added more to the incubator in which case the conversation changes a little. If the eggs are only separated by a day, I would just wait for the first pip and raise humidity just like normal.
OK, sorry for being a bit dim here. So you have eggs that have been in the bator for 16 days and you have added eggs that have been in the bator for 4 days? Correct?
Well, IMHO you dont have much of a choice but to goose the humidity for lock down maybe to the mid 60's. If you can separate the new eggs somehow in the incubator when you prepare for lockdown this might help protect them from the marauding new hatchlings that are going to bash them around. How are you turning the new eggs? If you are doing this by hand, maybe put the 4 new ones into a section of egg carton through the hatch of the older eggs. As soon as you can get the babies out, drop the humidity significantly and get back to regular temp for the remaining 4 and take them out of the carton and return to auto turning if that is what you were using to begin with. Good Luck. Others will chime in I am sure. @WVduckchick what do you think?
