Tis Time for a March 2020 Hatch-a-long!

[Muscovy Wunda]

Sorry for your loss. But glad they are growing

 

[igorsMistress]

I have a question regarding egg turners. My Farm Innovator has the cupped turner that keeps the eggs upright. My Hovabator has the flat turner that rolls the eggs on their side. Has anyone done a comparison between the 2 types? What do you have?

I used the roll around thing, it was terrible so I got a cup one for my hovabator. Much better, not noisy but it does create a bit of heat so I had to adjust the thermostat a little after I removed it at lockdown.

 

[Jules929]

I used the roll around thing, it was terrible so I got a cup one for my hovabator. Much better, not noisy but it does create a bit of heat so I had to adjust the thermostat a little after I removed it at lockdown.

That's what I was afraid of. My eggs are all shipped, with mostly slippery air cells. Maybe I should order a new turner for the Hovabator

 

[CluckNDoodle]

That's what I was afraid of. My eggs are all shipped, with mostly slippery air cells. Maybe I should order a new turner for the Hovabator

I have experience with both vertical and horizontal turners but I have minimal experience with shipped eggs. All I can say is that the shipped eggs that I hatched in the horizontal turner came out great and were not negatively impacted by incubating on their sides.

 

[julskinka]

I have a question regarding egg turners. My Farm Innovator has the cupped turner that keeps the eggs upright. My Hovabator has the flat turner that rolls the eggs on their side. Has anyone done a comparison between the 2 types? What do you have?

I've used both but I don't think it's a valuable comparison. The upright turner was in a borrowed farm innovations with crummy eggs from MPC. The side laying turner is in my bought-new incuview, with eggs sourced from better breeders.

Unsurprisingly, considering those variables, I've had better luck with the side-laying turner.

ETA: These were primarily shipped eggs in all hatches.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

I wasn't a fan of the upright turner in mine. The runner eggs I had didn't fill out the eggs, just stuck to top and I only got 5 out of 24 developed eggs hatch. But the pekin did wonderfully so could just be the other eggs were more sensitive

 

[julskinka]

I have experience with both vertical and horizontal turners but I have minimal experience with shipped eggs. All I can say is that the shipped eggs that I hatched in the horizontal turner came out great and were not negatively impacted by incubating on their sides.

Yes, I was nervous about it, but it worked out way better than I expected. I guess the eggs know what they're doing?

 

[hysop]

Sorry if I missed some messages or if I misunderstood the emu video but was the emu egg stinky because it died some time ago?

 

[Jules929]

Thanks to everyone regarding the turner comparison. I really don't want to purchase another turner right now. I am on short term disability (brain surgery). The 6 Birchen Marans have the worst air cells. I think I will put them in the FI with the upright turner until I lockdown the first batch and then transfer them to HB. Maybe the air cells will be in better shape by then.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Yes, I was nervous about it, but it worked out way better than I expected. I guess the eggs know what they're doing?

I questioned my decision initially too just because everything seems to recommend incubating vertically with shipped eggs but after my shipped egg hatch last year I feel very comfortable incubating horizontally all the time because I had severely detached and saddled air cells and I only had one quitter. The rest of the eggs that had development hatched and were incubated horizontally for the entire incubation.