"Lockdown" question

[jhook1997]

This is our second time incubating with a very UNsuccessful first attempt last year. Tell me please what you guys do when it's time to stop the egg turner. Do you take the turner out? Leave the eggs in? Put the eggs in cartons? Increase humidity and temp I know but how should the eggs be situated for the final days? I have 38 eggs in so I'm really hoping this year goes better. Last night the daddy of these chickies passed away and we are hoping for a nice calm roo like he was. Thanks ahead of time for the responses.

 

[azelgin]

We take the turner out and just put the eggs back in on the screen floor. Sure, they get rolled around by the already hatched chicks like bowling balls. Doesn't seem to change the hatch outcome.

 

[lazy gardener]

Last year, for my test run, (6 eggs) I left them in a cardboard carton and tilted it to mimic an auto-turner. Day 14, I took them out of the carton and manually rolled them until day 19, then just left them alone... However, I confess that I did the occasional candling and a bit of shuffling to be sure they all rotated through the optimum temp spot. When they started hatching, all went well until the last one had pipped, then every time it made progress, someone would give it a good kick and send it flying. So I took that one and set it in a tall sided Rubbermaid container. It was out within 10 minutes.