1st time hatching pekin ducks HELP

[Chicken bear]

this is day 29. I have 20 eggs in the still air incubator. 4 of them peeped through last nite and there has been progress today but not much. I hear lots of chirping and peaking but none have cone out yet.
how long do I wait before I help them out?

 

[Amiga]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/861442/when-to-help-when-to-worry/310


May help you, there is a sticky on hatching waterfowl and one on when to intervene in the Stickies - the link is in blue letters near the top of the Duck Forum index.

There are several hatchers here, too, hope they check in soon.

I often see them asking about temperature and humidity, so maybe you can post that information, too.

 

[Chicken bear]

the temp has beeb around 99-100 and the humidity 77-80. im having a hard time raising the humidity.

 

[Amiga]

I don't know if you need to raise the humidity, I have been reading about confusion regarding percentages and wet bulb humidity. Which measure are you using?

Some folks have had their humidity too high.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/317592/about-hatching-ducklings-humidity-levels-affecting-hatch

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/860013/airsac-and-humidity

Notice some of the people who have hatching experience, too . . .

 

[Chicken bear]

thats the same prob im having. im totally confussed. I have a reptile one that measures humidity. idk if that's a wet bulb or not.

 

[Amiga]

Here is another thread where you might check in with experienced hatchers.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/760871/call-ducks-finally-hatched/4110

And Metzer writes about hatching - making note of the difference between relative humidity and wet bulb humidity.

http://www.metzerfarms.com/IncubatingAndHatching.cfm

 

[Amiga]

This may be something you need, too

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/715902/humidity-for-hatching-duck-eggs

It makes me think you don't want such high humidity.

 

[Chicken bear]

hmmm im gonna go pull a plug. maybe your right to much humidity

 

[Amiga]

Pull a plug? Aren't they chirping? I don't understand.

Try sending a PM to some of the hatchers on those links.

 

[Chicken bear]

no I don't mean pull THE plug. just one to ventilated it