HOW OFTEN SHOULD EGGS BE TURNED?
Chicken or other fowl should be turned a minimum of 5 to 7 times a day if you don’t use the automatic turner and you will still be able to hatch a large percentage of eggs that are fertile. We recommend using the automatic turner if you are away from the incubator for long periods of time. The standard AT1 turner for this unit will turn the eggs once every hour, taking only 30 seconds or so to complete the turn. We have also developed the AT3 turner which turns the eggs continuously, bet extremely slowly—it takes a full hour to make the same turn that the AT1 does in 30 seconds. Many of the schools have purchased the AT3 as it is priced quite a bit lower than the AT1, but care should be taken that it would work in your particular breeding program. Exotic bird breeders will develop their own patterns of turning frequency that best suits their type of eggs.
