Moving eggs while the chicks are hatching

[owen8082]

This is my first experience with hatching eggs in an incubator, so I have nothing to go by but what I have read, so please bear with me..... I have read that eggs should not be moved when they start to hatch, but the first little guy out has decided to relocate every egg in the incubator. How detrimental to my hatch rate will this be???

 

[TaylorHobbyFarms]

It is more detrimental to your hatch rate that you not open the incubator during lockdown and hatching. I hatch almost 200 at a time and I only open the hatcher once a day, so there is a lot of moving around. Humidity is a BIGGER concern.