Too Early for Feb Hatch-A-Long Thread??

[FortCluck]

I should be having eggs that are supposed to be hatching soon, but I don't know when and I'm not home so I won't be able to see them

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I'm still using my Little Giant still air one.

They work! I've just used so many table top incubators now that I've worked out which ones I love, like, and will never use again. Rotating your eggs around in the turner when using a Little Giant, especially a still air, will help!

 

[LilyD]

I candled the eggs again tonight. I can't seem to stop I love watching them move.
Not sure if I caught the younger eggs but you can definitely see the day 15 eggs moving and grooving around. They lock down on Sunday and should hatch by Wednesday

 

[CluckNDoodle]

On the subject of rotating eggs in an incubator we shared this in a hatch-a-long last year and I found it very interesting for anyone that's interested.

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

It has the most accurate readout on temp and humidity, zero hot or cold spots because the turner goes all the way around the incubator, more consistent turning in that style of turner and turns more often. The IncuView offers more flexibility in hatching different species but the eggs do hop around a bit more in that style of turner and while the hot and cold spots are minimal compared to say, a Little Giant, they're still there. When I do a side by side I'll have a better idea of whether the two incubators have the same hatch rate. I'm not being critical though, I'm telling you my minute nit picky details that make me like the Nurture Right more, the IncuView is still a fantastic incubator and like I said, a breeze to clean. I very well may consider using my NR360s as incubators and the IncuView as a hatcher actually.

Yeah I can see why the incuview is the perfect hatcher haha. I’m loving it. And I think once I’m hatching my own eggs I’ll definitely give a Nurture right a try. It’s iust with all the wonky air cells from shipped eggs, I like the option to throw a carton in there and just turn them manually upright. If I could do that in the Nurture right I would get that one as my second.

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

On the subject of rotating eggs in an incubator we shared this in a hatch-a-long last year and I found it very interesting for anyone that's interested.

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Super interesting

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Yeah I can see why the incuview is the perfect hatcher haha. I’m loving it. And I think once I’m hatching my own eggs I’ll definitely give a Nurture right a try. It’s iust with all the wonky air cells from shipped eggs, I like the option to throw a carton in there and just turn them manually upright. If I could do that in the Nurture right I would get that one as my second.

I've never actually tried putting a carton in there... I know the height would work, the length may need to be trimmed though.

 

[LilyD]

On the subject of rotating eggs in an incubator we shared this in a hatch-a-long last year and I found it very interesting for anyone that's interested.

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I remember that. I went through and mapped all the temps in my Genesis after seeing that picture and started rotating my eggs every time I candle them so they aren't in one spot for too long. I will rotate them around the whole incubator every time I candle them.

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

I've never actually tried putting a carton in there... I know the height would work, the length may need to be trimmed though.

I can fit at least 3 full cartons in the incuview which is pretty awesome haha

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Yeah I can see why the incuview is the perfect hatcher haha. I’m loving it. And I think once I’m hatching my own eggs I’ll definitely give a Nurture right a try. It’s iust with all the wonky air cells from shipped eggs, I like the option to throw a carton in there and just turn them manually upright. If I could do that in the Nurture right I would get that one as my second.

I'm curious, (and forgive me if you mentioned it at some point, I'm super forgetful, lol) did you use a carton for your shipped eggs or did you place them in your IncuView turner?

I had an 88% hatch rate with shipped eggs that were almost all detached or saddled air cells. I put them directly in the horizontal turner after allowing them to rest for several hours. It was a very shaken box so there were eggs that never developed because of getting scrambled but I was surprised that in my experiment with shipped eggs that the horizontal turner did not seem to impact my hatch rate poorly.

- In this case infertile referred to any eggs that didn't develop but I think it was actually more due to scrambling in shipment rather than none of them being fertilized but I was pleased that I only lost one egg that started to develop.

8/31/19: 88% SHIPPED EGGS (started with 15, 7 infertile, 1 quitter, 7 live chicks) Version 3 Nurture Right