- May 18, 2011
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Later stage incubation die out / dry out not sure?
I am running a 400 capacity large cabinet style fully automatic incubator and have been doing so for a couple of years now. I started with 100% chicken eggs and little by little learned their quirks and am now up to having a real good deal of success with them. But as of late, within the last 3 months I have added turkey and duck eggs. My incubator is just for incubating, I have separate hatching places that run their own temp / hum levels so my temp / hum in the incubator is stable 100% of the time, usually around 35 – 40% and this has worked very well for my chicken eggs. What I am experiencing is that the turkey and duck eggs grow just fine for the first half (two weeks) of their time and then in the last half they just die out. It would appear as if they maybe have run out of liquid and just get stuck inside and cease to move but this only happens with 50% the other half keeps going and most of them usually hatch out. I know running a mixed incubator is not ideal as different types of eggs have different needs but I was jus wondering if their may be something that I could do to up my %. I have read that duck eggs should be weighed for liquid loss and then the humidity should be adjusted to suit more or less liquid dissipation (and I imainge this goes as well for turkeys) but I stifles me because in fact a good number of them go unaffected. I would like to hatch out more ducks and turkey and am not in a position to buy more incubators specifically for them. Tips, suggestions? Can airflow have to do with this?
I am running a 400 capacity large cabinet style fully automatic incubator and have been doing so for a couple of years now. I started with 100% chicken eggs and little by little learned their quirks and am now up to having a real good deal of success with them. But as of late, within the last 3 months I have added turkey and duck eggs. My incubator is just for incubating, I have separate hatching places that run their own temp / hum levels so my temp / hum in the incubator is stable 100% of the time, usually around 35 – 40% and this has worked very well for my chicken eggs. What I am experiencing is that the turkey and duck eggs grow just fine for the first half (two weeks) of their time and then in the last half they just die out. It would appear as if they maybe have run out of liquid and just get stuck inside and cease to move but this only happens with 50% the other half keeps going and most of them usually hatch out. I know running a mixed incubator is not ideal as different types of eggs have different needs but I was jus wondering if their may be something that I could do to up my %. I have read that duck eggs should be weighed for liquid loss and then the humidity should be adjusted to suit more or less liquid dissipation (and I imainge this goes as well for turkeys) but I stifles me because in fact a good number of them go unaffected. I would like to hatch out more ducks and turkey and am not in a position to buy more incubators specifically for them. Tips, suggestions? Can airflow have to do with this?
