new babies..but some problems!

I always take my eggs out of the turner for hatching. never seems to have been a problem.
Sounds like you had a rotten egg in the bunch. Yaht could have effected your hatch as well.
Staggared hatches are not a good idea as a general rule. I have done them but they are never as successful as non staggared for me.
Hope this helps

 

Not usually a good idea to leave them in the turner to hatch because it could hurt their legs.

I'm no expert by any means, but I use two bators when I do a staggered hatch. As a rule, you should only open the bator if absolutely necessary during the last three days.

And, you could have just had some bad eggs. In my last batch, I had a whole dozen eggs not make it. Either scrambled by the po or just quit. They all had really weird shaped air sacs. I hate having to ship eggs!

Dont' give up. It's a learning process. I've got some hatching myself right now.

 

If you are doing a staggard hatch, you really should use two incubators. You really shoule take out the turner at the 18th day and let the eggs find a positoin so the chicks can come to the air pocket in the eggs. Some people use egg cartons with the air pocket of the egg in the upright position, I do not have a feeling on this one way or the other. We use the screen that came with the incubator and make absolute sure that the humidity is good.

I have hatched a few eggs from the barn (under brood bantams) that I just could not let die and a few have hatchede with the turner on. Luckily I did not have a disaster. I did leave the holes around the eggs open (I had candled them and knew they were close, but did not know the exact date).

My hatching days are over for the winter. I have two tiny ones in a brooder upstairs and about 8 in one in the parrots bird room that stays about 80 degrees.

BTY I have completely converted my heat source to Reptile heat coils and I use the 100 watt ones. I do not have to worry about the light bulbs burning out and they put off a really good amount of heat, almost as much as the 250 watt heat lamps that suck your wallet dry at the end of the month.

The other really nice thing about the reptile coils is that there is NO light. So the chicks actually go to sleep for the night instead of running around, eating and drinking and making noise.

They seem so much more content with thier world. It is a nice change.

 

I wanted to put mine in the greenhouse too but it is plastic and I was afraid the cats would break through it and get to the chicks