Very few people would understand this dilemma but I know my fellow chick friends will. Sorry this is going to be long but I just wanted to share. I had gotten my
Brinsea incubator last week and also bought 24 eggs, 12 chicks and 12 duck eggs. The
Brinsea only holds 24 chick eggs and I hoped that I would be able to fit all 24 eggs in beings half would be bigger as duck eggs. So my eggs came last week and there were 2 extra chick eggs so I was a bit worried at first but then one duck egg was cracked so I threw it out. So that left me with 25 eggs, I was able to fit 24 in and had 1 extra. So what did I do? I stuck the extra egg in with my others that were already 2 1/2 weeks in incubation in my LG. I didn't know what I would do with that extra egg when it came time to stop turning the eggs in the LG but thought I would figure it out when the time came. Well, today was the day. I candled the eggs in the
Brinsea but it is only day 4 so couldn't really tell which weren't going to develop yet. I got my extra egg out of the LG and set it between my eggs in my
Brinsea but problem is that with the turner that egg would of rolled around. So I unplugged the turner while I got my LG eggs set to hatch. Which I did, got my sponges in case extra humidity is needed and filled all the water things in the bottom and set the non slip shelf liner in and put my eggs on. So then I had to go back to the
Brinsea. I took the top off and yuck, I could smell an egg. So I smelled each egg and found the culprit and pulled it out, Waalaa, all my eggs now fit. I think I didn't smell it the first time because I was trying to get back to the LG to get things going and my mind was set on that. I hope I didn't disturb those eggs too much today, but I didn't want to lose that 1 egg just in case it was a good one, if it has a chance I wanted to give it that chance. I won't touch them anymore except for when I pull the chick eggs out and put into the hatcher.
