Lid off container Box?

After you have cut your eggs do I need to leave the lid off the container the eggs are in? Or just cut holes in the lid?

i always leave the lid on the container after i cut the eggs. i continue to check on them daily and remove all the babies once the last one comes out. unless its a larger clutch then ill remove them in groups.

I wouldn't remove the box unless I was right there watching them...wouldn't want a bunch of babies loose in the incubator! XD

I pull the plastic, but leave the lid on ... the boxes I use aren't air tight.

Hope this helps.

-adam

We're using a closet for an incubator next year, but this year we used a couple of Hovabators. Due to the size of the incubators, we had the vermiculite right in the bottom, and didn't use seperate containers (they wouldn't fit).

I don't think I'll be doing that again, we had a heck of a time retrieving one of the hatchlings that decided to crawl up into the wafer thermostat. lol