Survey: How often and how much rotation when you turn?

[tazcat70]

I was reading somewhere and I saw that someone had eggs that were shipped and there was a problem with the yolk. This person did not turn or even move the eggs for the first week and she got a good hatch rate.

So I was wondering if you move the eggs less is it better than if you move them more. Guess-ti-mates are fine, I just want an idea.

So how do you turn your eggs? (flip, gently wiggle, turner, etc)

How often do you turn them?

How was your hatch rate?

 

[4-H chicken mom]

I turned my eggs 1/4 a turn 5 times per day.
100% hatch this time.

 

[pax12]

I turn mine 7 tims a day

 

[Katy]

I've got turners because I have CRS and always was forgetting to turn them!!

 

[ebonykawai]

I've been turning 5 times a day, half turns.

 

[seminolewind]

I turned 3-4 times a day, 1/4 turn, and I had a good hatch rate.

 

[Nefertiti]

Work schedules only allow 2/day turning during the week, but we turn at least 3 times a day, some times 5, on week ends. Normal hatch rate averages 1 in two dozen (or so) that dosn't hatch out.

 

[chickhamm]

I turn mine 3 times a day, also every few days i turn the eggs 1/4 of a turn within their little slot. Its really easy with the egg cartons, i just flip them over to the other side, they are done in less than 2 mins.

chickhamm
Theressa

 

[tazcat70]

Quote:
Thank you all!!!

Theressa- how do they all hatch out with that many eggs?

 

[Nu2Chicks]

Like Katy, I also have CRS, and therefore use the auto turner that came with the Turn-X incubator. Think it turns them every half hour.


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