Incubation progress of Muscovy eggs

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Hello guys, very important question!!!

I just candled my 6 eggs that I have had for about 10 days now, and I saw that 3 of them had internally pipped! But the other 3 still show no sign of internal pipping and have smaller air sacs. I'm not sure what happened here, maybe the mom started sitting before she was done laying. But the big question is: will it be okay if I put all the eggs in the bator in lockdown???!?!! Will not turning harm the ones that have not internally pipped yet!?!?!

Thank you, ANY help is appreciated.
 
muscovyslover said:
Hello guys, very important question!!!

I just candled my 6 eggs that I have had for about 10 days now, and I saw that 3 of them had internally pipped! But the other 3 still show no sign of internal pipping and have smaller air sacs. I'm not sure what happened here, maybe the mom started sitting before she was done laying. But the big question is: will it be okay if I put all the eggs in the bator in lockdown???!?!! Will not turning harm the ones that have not internally pipped yet!?!?! 

Thank you, ANY help is appreciated.
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I would imagine you're right in that mumma continued laying after incubation started or another hen contributed to the nest.
And if you only have the one bator, your best bet would be to lock them down and still manually turn the ones that aren't as far along. It's not ideal but in a natural environment mumma doesn't lock down 24/7. She raises humidity a heck of a lot but she still gets off.
I may be wrong so I'm keen to see the feedback on this but I haven't had any harm come from very brief openings of a bator while hatching is happening so you can quickly rotate the ones that need it.
 
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MuscovyLover said:
I would imagine you're right in that mumma continued laying after incubation started or another hen contributed to the nest.
And if you only have the one bator, your best bet would be to lock them down and still manually turn the ones that aren't as far along. It's not ideal but in a natural environment mumma doesn't lock down 24/7. She raises humidity a heck of a lot but she still gets off.
I may be wrong so I'm keen to see the feedback on this but I haven't had any harm come from very brief openings of a bator while hatching is happening so you can quickly rotate the ones that need it.
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Is it still necessary to turn those eggs if they are bobbing slightly every now and then in the incubator. To me this indicates that they're able to move inside the egg by themselves, so turning is no longer necessary. Am I right in this assumption? I would prefer to not open the incubator at all during this time, since in my incubator it sometimes takes hours for the humidity to stabilize again.
 
muscovyslover said:
Is it still necessary to turn those eggs if they are bobbing slightly every now and then in the incubator. To me this indicates that they're able to move inside the egg by themselves, so turning is no longer necessary. Am I right in this assumption? I would prefer to not open the incubator at all during this time, since in my incubator it sometimes takes hours for the humidity to stabilize again.
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once they start rocking I wouldn't turn them anymore it could disorient them and make them malposition.
 

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