Small rules.

• The best position for eggs is with their blunt end up. Let them spend approximately half of all the period of incubation in this position.
• You can put more eggs in if you always put them vertically near each other turning them over 2 times during the day and night period.
• When you take eggs out, put them on a soft rug or a carpet so as not to damage the egg-shell.
• Approximately in a week after incubation began you have to check the eggs – test them at the simplest ovoscope consisting of a big can that has a 30 mm opening in its cover and a 200 watt bulb in the centre. Check the eggs and throw out the ones that are not developing.
• Put new ones in the place of thrown out ones not to have empty places. Mark the new eggs with a pencil – draw a dagger, a line, a circle, etc.
• Make notes not to forget where you put new eggs and how many of them. You can grow hen, goose, turkey, duck eggs together – the incubation regime does not change because of this.
• During the entire period of incubation you can keep the temperature 37.5 - 38 degrees C on the upper level of eggs.
• If an egg seems to have cracked but you are not sure of this, slightly press the corners of the supposed crack. If the egg-shell separates, throw this egg out – all the same oxygen will kill the embryo.
• Within four days you can see what eggs have living embryos and what eggs have stopped developing. For this I put the eggs one by one on a sieve and look at them. Living eggs swing. But I don’t advise you to throw out suspicious eggs. Let them stay in last days.