What NOT to do when you think your turner has stopped working..(PICS)

[shelleyd2008]

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I have another 1583 model that I use for hatching...not many are due to hatch on the same days

Couldn't do that if they were all hatching in the same bator, eggs on top of eggs and everything! They'd get squished before they even started!

 

[aurorarose25]

u have a pic? this I gotta see.
I am in the same boat but wandering how I turn the eggs with soooo many in the bator... I have a hovabator 1602..

 

[rancher hicks]

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It is set and forget for me because I dry hatch. I almost never add water to the incubator. The temp holds perfectly, I've only had to adjust it once and that was when I first got it. The humidity in the incubator usually runs about 30-35%.

In my office it drops below that. I hatch according to the article in PP mag. 35% for the first 16 days, then up to 55% til day 19 and then finish at 65% . If I didn't add water it would drop below 20%.

Still hope things turn out ok.

Rancher

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I had 10+ dozen in my LG the other day when the power was out cause the LG is easier to run off the truck than the big incubator......
Didn't count but I think 11.5 dozen....

 

[shelleyd2008]

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It is set and forget for me because I dry hatch. I almost never add water to the incubator. The temp holds perfectly, I've only had to adjust it once and that was when I first got it. The humidity in the incubator usually runs about 30-35%.

In my office it drops below that. I hatch according to the article in PP mag. 35% for the first 16 days, then up to 55% til day 19 and then finish at 65% . If I didn't add water it would drop below 20%.

Still hope things turn out ok.

Rancher

I've been hatching like this (without adding water) for about a year. Although this is the first time I've ever had this many eggs in it I don't see why it wouldn't work. With so many eggs the humidity will probably be higher than the normal 30-35% that it usually runs.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Poor little bator!

Currently there are 114 eggs in there.

 

[StevenW.]

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I wish my incubator looked like that!

Anyway I wont even try since I would get in trouble if I had 114 eggs in the incubator! LOL

 

[BooBear]

WOW

That is alot of poultry. The different eggs actually look pretty against each other. Hope you get a great hatch and post lots of pictures.

 

[JenEric Farms]

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[emvickrey]

I thought duck eggs had to have a higher humidity? I'm new to hatching duck eggs so if i'm wrong, please let me know. I have several eggs in a separate bator and keep the humidity up around 60 -65% They are developing. I just candled 2 days ago and saw movement.

So if i'm doing something wrong please let me know before it's too late.