Slight difference in egg age at lockdown?

[chickfused]

I have 2 eggs in my latest batch which I popped into incubation 2 days after the first batch. Are they going to be safe to lockdown on what (for them) is day 16? And will the egg soccer hurt them?

 

[junior67]

I have 2 eggs in my latest batch which I popped into incubation 2 days after the first batch. Are they going to be safe to lockdown on what (for them) is day 16? And will the egg soccer hurt them?

my last hatch I added eggs 4 days after the first batch. They were all fine when I put the others into lock down and they all hatched. I did bump the humidity down for a day after the others hatched then back up JIC. But 2 days difference I wouldn't worry too much about it. You could always wait till early day 19 to bump the humidity (I have done this as well) up which putting the others in lock down on day 17 and upping humidity instead of day 18 is fine. I normally take out my turner the night of day 17 and bump humidity on day 18 anyways.

 

[chickfused]

So pulling the turner on the new eggs at their day 16 will be fine and holding off on bumping humidity until the first batch's day 19? Then egg soccer presents no threat?

 

[junior67]

So pulling the turner on the new eggs at their day 16 will be fine and holding off on bumping humidity until the first batch's day 19? Then egg soccer presents no threat?

I didn't have any problems with it. You can candle at day 18 to be sure no internal pips, if none then you can hold off on upping humidity. Egg soccer should be fine. You can always turn them back the right way once you take other chicks out of the incubator.

 

[chickfused]

Thanks!

 

[NatJ]

So pulling the turner on the new eggs at their day 16 will be fine

Yes, that should be fine

Then egg soccer presents no threat?

It is probably fine.

But if you are worried about it, you might make a mesh cage from needlepoint canvas or hardware cloth or something, and put either the early or the late eggs into it, to keep them separate. Of course you should make sure that air still circulates properly, and there are no sharp edges to hurt chicks, or awkward spaces to trap chicks. This is easy in some incubators and impossible in others, so I do not know if it would work in the particular incubator you have.

 

[chickfused]

I have a Nuture Right 360, been trusty so far. And the divider thing from the guy on ETSY who custom fits these bators. I just have 17 eggs, probably 13+ at lockdown, and the divider spaces aren't very big.

 

[junior67]

There is someone on the Feb 2023 hatch a long that uses string to keep chicks from playing egg soccer.

I haven't had any issues with it though so I just leave them.