put something to hold them steady alittle. The people in the hatch along was using drawer liners to help. they are moving because they are trying to get into postion to start pecking the shell but as they move they have to readjust.rolling around...although the white egg has been rolling around a lot more than the cream colored one....
Do you use an egg turner or turning by hand? They was saying if you use turner hatch in a carton so they are upright if you hand turn hatch on side. I personally use egg cartons because I use turner. But even with cartons and these small eggs I could see them move some just not rolling around. Normally mother hen is sitting on them and they don't move as much. I think that's why they have that new contact incubator that's like 4-5000.00 from brinsea.
Edit by hand turning I mean on side rotating them.
Last edited:
He was such a good boy. I don't even know what happened. He was out there moving around just fine this morning. I went to class, came back, and he was gone. Laying in the run by the feed dishes, not a mark on him except for his wattles were all bloody. All I can think of is he got intense frostbite very quickly and lost too much blood. That doesn't really make sense though because there wasn't a ton of blood in the run. Unless it was all his feathers; they're dark red so it's hard to tell. I loved that bird. He was such a sweetheart and good to the hens. At least I still have his daughter, a cross between him and my sweetest, favorite hen that was killed in the dog attacks.
