Staggering a hatch

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! I'll take advice from someone using the same type (ish) incubator as I.
Good luck to you,
Lisa
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[Saltysteele]

be sure to put the first hatches on the bottom, so their shells and junk do not fall on ones below. remove the tray and bump everyone down after the hatch.

good luck!! keep that humidity up, and use a mister with warm water to boost humidity if you have to open it

 

[LuvMyBLR]

I'm borrowing another incubator from someone for hatching phase because I'm doing a staggered hatch too

. The problem with the egg turner is just the concern that, if the egg hatches in the turner, or beside it, it could get hurt. Anyway, good luck with your hatch!

 

[Saltysteele]

we ended up with 7 eggs that developed, and all 7 turkey chicks hatched friday afternoon through last night. Nice!

 

[Chickangel79]

I stagger hatch all year long but do have a 'hatch-a-bator' so the humidity can be raised without compromising the new set. GOOd luck !

 

[SilkieLadee]

you're going to be told you can, you're going to be told you can't.

the fella we bought our incubator from is using 3 newer ones, and hadn't used this one in a while. he hatches gamebirds and rare chickens. some of the pheasants he hatches, if he can get the bird out the door are $600/day old chick (not a typo). he has imported eggs from the zoo in Beijing China, blue laced silver wyandottes from the netherlands. the production company that produced Mummy, return of the king (or whatever the 2nd Mummy movie with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was called), contacted him and purchased pheasant feathers to make a head dress for the movie.

he has some amazing birds, and VERY VERY expensive birds. he has been doing this for years, and his grandfather (who taught him) purchased this incubator in 1956.

he hatched staggered batches in this incubator, and does staggered batches in his other incubators.

no offense to anyone here, but am i going to take advice on whether i can stagger batches or not from someone hatching $2, $5 or $10 chicks, or am I going to believe the guy who is hatching $600 chicks? this guy has thousands of dollars worth of chicks in his incubators.

now, that is not saying you can the same thing in your incubator. i've noticed with this incubator (a redwood incubator, most likely made by Leahy, but sold under the Brower name) recoups it's temp and humidity with 2-3 minutes of closing the door back up.

once again, sorry to seem poopy, but it gets frustrating seeing people telling other people they absolutely can or cannot do something, when they are just telling you what they know based on what someone has told them (which was probably told to that person, and so on and so on)

any advice on how to accomplish this