Which is the best option?

[hey102974]

I have two incubators. One has eggs that are at day 13 (chicken and quail). The other one was just emptied last week and cleaned and is ready to go again (my first round of hatching failed horribly, but I know much more now after all the issue with the first hatch which resulted in 2 chicks and one quail alive, and 1 chick that died in the process of hatching and one quail that lived only 3 days, and 18 fully formed chicks that died between day 18 and day 25 who never hatched!). So I just received another batch of chicken eggs and a batch of duck eggs. Should I put the new chicken and duck eggs together, or should I put the chicken eggs in with the ones that are to hatch next week? I hatch in the incubator not in a separate hatcher, so if I put them in with the current chicken (and quail) eggs, they will have to go through lockdown next week while these hatch? Of is it better to put them in with the duck eggs and move them when it is time for them to hatch? Does it hurt them to move them to a different incubator when they reach lockdown?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Set the new eggs in the cleaned incubator and after hatch in the currently operating one move either the chicken or duck eggs into the other one. I wouldn't put mid term eggs through a lockdown and hatch.