lockdown with stacked eggs

[Long Last Farm]

Hi I know I am literally counting my chickens before they are hatched, but...

I have 36 banty eggs in my Brinsea eco 20. I have had to stack 3 or 4 on top to make them all fit. I started out with 40, but 4 are duds.
It is now day 12. If all remaining 36 make it, I don't know if I can remove the rails and have them all fit without stacking.. In my previous hatches, the Brinsea was not nearly as full, and I used egg cartons to hold the eggs in the best hatching position. No way could I fit cartons in now.
any advice? they are all pointy end down, including the stacked ones--should I try to lay them on their sides? As the first ones hatch maybe I can remove the first chicks after they are dry and fluffy to make room for the unhatched ones?

does anyone have any experience with getting an incubator to lockdown with stacked eggs?
Thanks!

 

[dretd]

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Wow, nice problem to have! I have no personal experience with stacking so hopefully someone else will chime in. I did see a video from a hatchery once where they had them in hatcher trays and started with one egg leaning on an lip then put the next one so that it leaned on the first and so on, so the eggs were pretty tightly packed together and in rows. It was maybe 6 rows across and 3 times that long.

I hope you still have this problem at lock down!

 

[Long Last Farm]

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Wow, nice problem to have! I have no personal experience with stacking so hopefully someone else will chime in. I did see a video from a hatchery once where they had them in hatcher trays and started with one egg leaning on an lip then put the next one so that it leaned on the first and so on, so the eggs were pretty tightly packed together and in rows. It was maybe 6 rows across and 3 times that long.

I hope you still have this problem at lock down!

Thanks! I'm definitely not complaining! I just wasn't expecting so many to develop!