As Farmer Connie said, find out what works for you and your area. Here I and Many of my friends---well ALL that hatched had the worse luck opening the incubator during the hatch. Now, None of us open and would get upset if someone did try to open our incubators and we all have great hatches now. After joining this forum---and Learning----if we had of jumped in there and helped them to hatch---chip away at the eggs---we would probably have had a lot better Hatches---we never helped them and Most died after the first hatched ones were removed. Now, We All Set on our hands---we do not open until all have hatched or the day after the due hatch date and have Great Hatches and do not have to "help" them hatch. Sure if I have 236 eggs hatching and 230 hatch on their own I might have to help 2 or 3 finish breaking out the shell the day after the hatch date.
This is what works The Best for All of the incubator/Hatchers in my area. I think from all the reading I have done on here----what works in some area's might NOT work in other area's. I have figured out that Sitting on my hands works best in my area---with 10,000 hatched in 3 years---over 6,000 of those was in one year, with a 95 to 100% hatch rate and very little having to break one out the day after the due date---I have found out what works best here in my area. Good Luck
This is what works The Best for All of the incubator/Hatchers in my area. I think from all the reading I have done on here----what works in some area's might NOT work in other area's. I have figured out that Sitting on my hands works best in my area---with 10,000 hatched in 3 years---over 6,000 of those was in one year, with a 95 to 100% hatch rate and very little having to break one out the day after the due date---I have found out what works best here in my area. Good Luck