lock down question

[Anita Scott]

I got an incubator this year and experimented with chicken eggs. I now have 10 chickens in addition to my guineas.
I bought the 96 eggs with the 2 turners. With the chuckens, I just removed the bottom turner and put a small basket and hatched the eggs in the bottom. This worked great.
Now I am finding about 4 guinea eggs per day. My top turner is full and I still have a week before lock down. I have weeded out a couple of eggs that were not fertile to make more room on the top turner. Both turners are working. I took a styrofoam cooler and lined it with the silver air filled insulation with newspaper bottom and light.
Question is-can I move the eggs to the brooder for lock down?

 

[R2elk]

I got an incubator this year and experimented with chicken eggs. I now have 10 chickens in addition to my guineas.
I bought the 96 eggs with the 2 turners. With the chickens, I just removed the bottom turner and put a small basket and hatched the eggs in the bottom. This worked great.
Now I am finding about 4 guinea eggs per day. My top turner is full and I still have a week before lock down. I have weeded out a couple of eggs that were not fertile to make more room on the top turner. Both turners are working. I took a styrofoam cooler and lined it with the silver air filled insulation with newspaper bottom and light.
Question is-can I move the eggs to the brooder for lock down?

The only way that you can use a brooder for lockdown is if you can maintain the same conditions in the brooder as you would in a hatcher. If you cannot maintain around 99°F and 65% or higher humidity, a brooder would not work.

If you have other eggs in the turner that are only a week away from hatching, you can still take the turner out as turning the eggs is not as important late in the incubation cycle as it is in the early stages.

Another option is to hurry up and make a hatcher from a cooler.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Can you control temperature and humidity in the brooder? If so, sure you can try it. if not do not expect many, if any, to hatch.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Hi.

Good advice already.

You could just slow your roll. I'm not one to talk... I got the 96 bator... and two other separate bators for hatching. When it's too full choose which eggs are most important to set and eat the rest or feed them back to the animals.

 

[Anita Scott]

I think that I solved the problem this morning. It looks like I can remove a couple of rows of the turner and hatch them on the bottom of incubator. Hopefully they won't get caught up in the rest of the turners.