Ok... newby mistake - please help

[Chessieowner001]

I'm new to incubating and hatching eggs and I made a complete idiot of a mistake. I put the eggs in my incubator on random days without specifically marking them.... I know that I'm not supposed to turn them in the last 3 days but I don't know which eggs exactly are in that time period.. My first few are supposed to hatch Easter Sunday and the rest of them should hatch each day of that week. What happens if I keep turning the eggs until they all hatch since I don't know when each egg reaches its 3 day mark? I've been hand turning and candling these babies for nearly 3 weeks and now I'm worried that I've totally screwed up . Please help! I could really use some advice on what to do... I don't want the little chickies to die/not hatch because of my careless mistake....

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I'm new to incubating and hatching eggs and I made a complete idiot of a mistake. I put the eggs in my incubator on random days without specifically marking them.... I know that I'm not supposed to turn them in the last 3 days but I don't know which eggs exactly are in that time period.. My first few are supposed to hatch Easter Sunday and the rest of them should hatch each day of that week. What happens if I keep turning the eggs until they all hatch since I don't know when each egg reaches its 3 day mark? I've been hand turning and candling these babies for nearly 3 weeks and now I'm worried that I've totally screwed up

. Please help! I could really use some advice on what to do... I don't want the little chickies to die/not hatch because of my careless mistake....

Technically, it is not absolutely neccessary to turn eggs after the 14th day. So instead of turning all of them I would stop turning all of them at day 19 (push back lockdown one day unless you have an egg pipping) and hope for the best.

But...you're still going to run into issues on humidity at lockdown, so stay hopefull, but keep that in mind.

 

[WalnutHill]

Technically, it is not absolutely neccessary to turn eggs after the 14th day. So instead of turning all of them I would stop turning all of them at day 19 (push back lockdown one day unless you have an egg pipping) and hope for the best.

But...you're still going to run into issues on humidity at lockdown, so stay hopefull, but keep that in mind.

Just what Amy said. Good luck!

 

[Nickbuck10]

It won't hurt them not to turn them. How many days apart are they?

 

[Nickbuck10]

For more than the last three days that is.

 

[Chessieowner001]

Thank you for the help, if they all hatch then they should start Easter Sunday and then end on the following Sunday. I didn't realize that I could store the eggs until I was ready to hatch them.

 

[Nickbuck10]

That is ok did you breed them eggs.

 

[Nickbuck10]

I did the same thing the first cycle I did with my birds I had a good 75% hatch for me.

 

[Chessieowner001]

All but three were fertilizered and when I candled them tonight they were moving around inside the eggs. There is about 30 eggs

 

[Nickbuck10]

I am gonna guess 15 I am averaging half and that is what most of my friends say about that many will hatch.