What’s the ambient humidity in the room where your incubator is running? Thank you so much for sharing your experience, appreciate it so much! Complete Guide to Incubating Duck Eggs for Optimal Hatch Rates For some reason they can’t get out of their shells or die within the last 3 days. That’s so heartbreaking to lose them at the end like that! Maybe I’ll try turning by hand…. I currently have 2 heritage breeds. I’ve been using an automatic turner, but sometimes wonder how effective it is. What is the ideal temperature and humidity required for successful duck egg incubation? Joane, you’re so kind! Hi Jill! Some theorize that the cooling/misting cycle helps to make the shell more brittle for hatch. Hatching duck eggs is just as easy as as hatching out baby chicks! Best wishes!! If I purchase the Hova-bater without the egg turner would me opening to turn them 3 times a day be a problem with the temp and humidity? Hi Julie! Today is day two of incubation. Need tips on how to guarantee you’re only hatching purebred ducklings, if you keep multiple duck breeds? Below, I’ve created a little cheat sheet, detailing the steps I follow for successfully hatching duck eggs. Fill in the dates beginning at the first day of incubation. Even from the outside, I consistently notice the heartbeat within a duck egg becoming visible at least 12 hours later into incubation than a chicken’s…and that’s just to my untrained eye. If you can candle the eggs, I would definitely give that a try. So thank YOU for speaking encouragement to my heart, when you didn’t even know I needed it! Great questions. You will want a reliable thermometer as well a hygrometer in there. I’m delighted that you’ve found this helpful! To incubate Muscovy eggs ‘artificially’, place the eggs under a duck for 10 days and then transfer them to an artificial incubator. It’s been 24 hrs since she laid on them. Aw, Kate! I sold a lot of my eggs to school teachers for school projects and they also got 100% hatches. Thank you so much for your brainstorming; I really appreciate the help! Put them all on lockdown together, and allow the hatch to go naturally. I want to share this information with my students. The eggs lie on their sides in the incubator and the opening of the incubator cools the eggs slightly while the eggs are turned three times a day. I think that it really does help to mimic nature a bit – my mother ducks always get off the nest for a good 15-20 minutes each day to eat, drink, stretch, and take a swim. This is a fairly humid season for many areas, and honestly lots of folks do well with what’s called a “dry hatch” – leaving the water chambers of the incubator empty until lockdown. I’m sure you are probably right on top of making sure they’re getting turned plenty, but it definitely seems that Waterfowl are even more sensitive to getting plenty of turning than chicks – without it they can be too weak to hatch, leading to losses at hatch time. By the way I forgot to mention that some of the eggs might be actually muscovy eggs as well in addition to species that I mentioned. I have a lot of people who like the backyard mixing. As far as incubating those breeds together, you should be fine! I’m short of putting in just drops or running the incubator dry in order to get a lower humidity. In the meantime you can have your incubator already running, so you know it’s perfectly holding temperature. So I decided to proceed with dry incubation and coincidentally you have mentioned the same thing. I figured that would leave a healthy margin for error, since I was hatching out ducks for the first time, and didn’t feel terribly confident. A lot of times I keep a spray bottle of rubbing alcohol handy and just spray my hands before handling the eggs especially before turning the eggs by hand. Hi Diane! On day one, the humidity was fairly high and I had to remove the water to bring it down. Turn them 3x a day for another 3-4 days, and then bump the humidity back up and follow lockdown procedure again. And I had a list of people who wanted to buy more, if I would be willing to hatch them. Let me, And if you’re not sure you’ve got all your supplies ready for when they hatch, my friend Lisa has. If you haven’t already started misting, I would go ahead and do that – they do benefit from it, and I’m going to bet now’s not too soon. Eggs that ‘touch’ during incubation synchronize and will tend to hatch at the same time (like popcorn). ), so I put down my notes, and thought I’d come answer today’s comments. I had no idea the extent to which they would utterly charm us. They also hatched over a shorter period of time, rather than many hours apart. But a couple of weeks ago, I couldn't wait any longer. If you see them pip before that 3-4 days, go ahead and start lockdown. YES – it’s definitely different timing. If I got lucky and more hatched than I needed, I knew I could probably sell them. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE hatching out chicks. I’ll be sure to let you know when I get my first video uploaded. So I decided to hatch some of their eggs. Hi Sara, that’s a great question! Opening the duck egg incubator early will lower the humidity and make it more difficult for the remaining ducklings to hatch. Your timing is amazing. I’ve been meaning to start a YouTube channel, and was actually just now planning out which videos I should shoot first. Additionally, a great way to determine if humidity is correct in the incubator is to watch the air cells in the egg.

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