I put eggs in the bator 1 day apart. Not the brightest thing to do, I know. Will my 17day eggs be okay on lockdown with my 18day eggs? Not that I have a choice, but I just wanted to know. Thanks
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Just one day isn't that big of an issue unless you have small air cells. They should be as fine as they would have been if they were all set together.I put eggs in the bator 1 day apart. Not the brightest thing to do, I know. Will my 17day eggs be okay on lockdown with my 18day eggs? Not that I have a choice, but I just wanted to know. Thanks
I stop turning at the end of day 13 for all of my eggs.
An egg under a broody doesn't generally get knocked around like one in an open bator either. Had my first 100% hatch hand turning the entire incubation, stopping at day 14 and no malepositioned. Our "turning" is more drastic than the movement of the eggs by the broody hens. Watched mine last year, hen is much more subtle.I generally remove them from the auto turner on bout day 18/19 but I continue to hand turn them until they externally pip, then I rotate the pip upwards and stop turning that egg...
A broody hen turns her eggs over 50 times a day every day all the way until the chickens hatch out....
They myth the chicken will get disorientated just doesn't fit natural incubation techniques, where the broody bird never stops turning and moving eggs, also the first chick to hatch normally bulldozes and rolls all the other eggs all over the place... In nature there is no 'lock down' or stopping of turning...
A chick under a broody doesn't generally get knocked around like one in an open bator either.
Our "turning" is more drastic than the movement of the eggs by the broody hens. Watched mine last year, hen is much more subtle.
I totally agree. Never argued anybody was wrong, just stated I stopped turning at the end of day 13.I guess we will have to beg to differ on that, as in my observations the chicks hatching result in the hen constantly have to adjust the eggs being kicked and bulldozed around by the new chicks or even recover eggs that have been completely pushed out from under her as the new chicks pop in and out...
My turning is quite gentile and hardly drastic by any means, my turner takes 2 hours to gently roll the eggs 180° IMO it could not be much less drastic or gentile, you hardly even notice them moving unless you start at them for extended periods of time... My turner is far less drastic then what I have observed broody hens doing with their feet and heads, when returning to the nest or repositioning themselves...
In the end there is no single right or wrong way...