Opening incubator during lockdown

[Chicken12367]

For all of the hatches I've done in my Brinsea ovation (I know its best not to) but I always open the incubator after some chicks have hatched. Reason being after some chicks have hatched they try to start walking and roll over pipped eggs. I open the incubator to turn them back over but have to do it repeatedly because they hatched chicks keep rolling them over. Last time I had a shrink wrapped chick which died before I realised it was stuck. My questions are, is it okay for the chicks to roll eggs around? Should I be turning eggs over that have been rolled around? I think on my next hatch Im going to leave the incubator closed and see what happens.
Thanks in advance!

 

[EggSighted4Life]

My questions are, is it okay for the chicks to roll eggs around? Should I be turning eggs over that have been rolled around? I think on my next hatch Im going to leave the incubator closed and see what happens.

It's frustrating to watch, sometimes I let it be other's I remove the soccer players.. Tough choices.

When opening the top, drape towels or blankets to catch and retain the heat and humidity, reach your arms up underneath quickly... if that's not what you are already doing.

I have not rolled eggs back to their original position. I have been satisfied with my hatch rates..

Pack the bator tighter.. no room to roll!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

IMHO, it is best to leave it be. I'm sure in a hen's nest they will get jostled as well.
To me, the danger of shrink wrapping and dry, stiff membranes is what makes part of hatches fail.
After hatching between 8 and 30 batches a year, if they don't hatch on their own, they weren't meant to hatch. I'm not as fastidious as many but if I try to intervene, it usually is a failure.
Unless one is trying to save a single cherished chick, just set them and forget them. The resulting chicks from waiting for them to emerge will be much more vigorous than if one spends hours a day on trying to save something that wasn't supposed to hatch.
Major hatcheries that may hatch a million chicks at a time don't do any of that. They use science and not intuition but they do replicate as nearly as possible the conditions a hen provides.
There are at least 20 variables that cause low hatch rates and late quitters. I suggest if someone has quitters, they look into the other possible causes.
I've been focusing on breeder nutrition. Regular layer feed is normally nutritious enough for robustness in hatching eggs. That is a major contributor to quitters. Major hatcheries that are under the auspices of commercial egg and broiler operations have excellent results. However, they use scientific data to ascertain correct enhance nutrition at every age, lighting of breeders' housing, storage conditions of hatching eggs, meticulousness of storage and transfer conditions, disinfection of setter and hatcher, precise temperature/humidity(weight loss)/turning throughout.
Those and many other conditions reduce hatchability and the perceived need to intervene.
In a hatcher with a million hatching eggs, they don't intervene. They hatch or they don't -and in a short time frame.
If they need intervention, it is too late to correct the problem we have created by not considering all the parameters.

 

[Chicken12367]

It's frustrating to watch, sometimes I let it be other's I remove the soccer players.. Tough choices.

When opening the top, drape towels or blankets to catch and retain the heat and humidity, reach your arms up underneath quickly... if that's not what you are already doing.

I have not rolled eggs back to their original position. I have been satisfied with my hatch rates..

Pack the bator tighter.. no room to roll!

Thanks, I’ve got a batch which are due to hatch next Wednesday, if I need to open the incubator I’ll drape a towel over it.

 

[Chicken12367]

IMHO, it is best to leave it be. I'm sure in a hen's nest they will get jostled as well.
To me, the danger of shrink wrapping and dry, stiff membranes is what makes part of hatches fail.
After hatching between 8 and 30 batches a year, if they don't hatch on their own, they weren't meant to hatch. I'm not as fastidious as many but if I try to intervene, it usually is a failure.
Unless one is trying to save a single cherished chick, just set them and forget them. The resulting chicks will be much more vigorous one spends hours a day on trying to save something that wasn't supposed to hatch.
Major hatcheries that may hatch a million chicks at a time don't do any of that. They use science and not intuition but they do replicate as nearly as possible the conditions a hen provides.
There are at least 20 variables that cause low hatch rates and late quitters. I suggest if someone has quitters, they look into the other possible causes.
I've been focusing on breeder nutrition. That is a major contributor to quitters. Major hatcheries that are under the auspices of commercial egg and broiler operations have excellent results. However, they use scientific data to ascertain correct enhance nutrition at every age, lighting of breeders' housing, storage conditions of hatching eggs, meticulousness of storage and transfer conditions, disinfection of setter and hatcher, precise temperature/humidity(weight loss)/turning throughout.
Those and many other conditions reduce hatchability and the perceived need to intervene.
In a hatcher with a million hatching eggs, they don't intervene. They hatch or they don't -and in a short time frame.
If they need intervention, it is too late to correct the problem we have created by not considering all the parameters.

Thanks, this is some great information. Next hatch I’ll leave the incubator closed and see how it goes