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Here's 2 of the 3 ducklings. I will get better pics later. Pekin cross not so silver appleyard

3 hatched. The others DIS. Incubator litterally dried out over night

Rather then all the pain of a small digital thermometer and calibrating etc just get a good old fashioned mercury one. Yes they still make those. They aren't hard to read, they don't need batterys or power and they are as accurate as you can get

It's pip day for ducklings!!! So we should see ducklings in 2 days

I took my turner out yesterday and set the eggs up in the carton (upright turner=upright hatch) so will see how many days till they hatch

While I'm waiting my 8 or 6 days for hatch, I thought I'd share my notes on this trial incubation. I've always, ALWAYS had 100% fertility with my ducks, but have lost 50% of them at various stages of incubating. I've always followed the rule of have 50% humidity for the main part of incubation...

I think I'm on day 20... or 18... honestly the hatchabatch tracker throws me off and the counter on incubator. But, regardless, ducklings are almost done

I think bull chick means swap their positions in the incubator. So the eggs on the outside of turner, move the middle section and the eggs in the middle, move out to the edges. Even though you have an egg turner a still air incubator doesn't put it's heat out evenly so some spots will be warmer...

Funny I was just thinking about this today. I think I've seen it done in other threads, but I think they were taking out chicks before they got too zoomy

I'm joining in with some duck eggs. I just sold off my breeding flock on Sunday, ment to be silver appleyards. Anyway I have 2 pekin and a cayuga females left. I have 10 eggs between what I collected from appleyards and pekins.... I am missing having a drake around...you get the picture. Set to...