Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Can you over crowd eggs in an incubator?

I have a regular round (maybe 1 and a few inches feet in diameter) incubater. I have it filled with peacock, quail, chicken, turkey, and guinea eggs I have to manually turn them and they just sit on a metal grate. All the eggs were put in at different times. the quail will hatch in 8 days and the chicken, 1 turkey, some peacock, some guinea eggs i just put in yesterday. The original 6 turkey 3 peacock and 4 guinea will hatch soon (within a week or two). Is this too much, im still able to turn them. I know eggs have to breath and this is a still air incubater all metal. are they overcrowded?

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