ANYONE HAVE EGGS DUE!! CHARTS ON PAGE ONE POST ONE!! NEWCOMERS WELCOME!!!

[stephanie1992]

Heres a pic of my (suppose to be) hamburg chick

 

[stephanie1992]

and for everyone who hasnt looked there are charts on page one for hatching chicks and ducks!!

 

[stephanie1992]

My buff silkies are due the 14th!! i cant wait

i also been adding eggs in

i have a Bantam partridge cochin rooster running with
2 blue sumatra hens
1 chocolate polish hen
1 standard buff cochin hen
2 white cochin bantam hens
1 black cochin bantam hen
and 1 RIR bantam hen

i collected eggs in the nesting boxes and they are all forming!! im intrested to see what hatches and what they turn out looking like!!

 

[Nsampsel]

I just set 32 more assorted eggs last night, plus 3 Pekin duck eggs. Waiting on more next week, 2 dozen Silkies. The week after, 1 dozen turkeys & a dozen orps & marans.

 

[spiderlady]

Now the hard part, are they boys or girls?​

Well I have no experience with chickens, but with baby ducks we vent sex them - basically squeeze the cloaca inside-out and see what's inside

I have no idea if this works with chickens or not, but you could try and see

 

[spiderlady]

and for everyone who hasnt looked there are charts on page one for hatching chicks and ducks!!

Which are awesome by the way - Thanks!

I do have a question on the duck calendar - Are the temps suggested for a forced air bator or a still air bator? Mine is a still air one, and I have been going with the higher temps suggested in Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks. I have two different thermometers, one on the bottom on the wire grate, and the other is a meat thermometer poked through the top with the tip about an inch above the top of the eggs... SO, neither really gives the temp right at the eggs like I would want, so I've just been keeping it where the top reads high and the bottom reads low, but the bottom one is a pretty course measurement (the dinky thermos that comes with the hovabator) and the top one fluctuates and is almost always reading several degrees higher than the bottom... I worry that I'm keeping the temps too high, but I'm not sure since I don't really have an exact reading. I used the same setup last time and had OK success, but I kinda felt like I just got lucky.

Blah, blah, I digress. Got any comments/suggestions on my setup or the appropriate temps for duck eggs? Thanks.

 

[stephanie1992]

Which are awesome by the way - Thanks!

I do have a question on the duck calendar - Are the temps suggested for a forced air bator or a still air bator? Mine is a still air one, and I have been going with the higher temps suggested in Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks. I have two different thermometers, one on the bottom on the wire grate, and the other is a meat thermometer poked through the top with the tip about an inch above the top of the eggs... SO, neither really gives the temp right at the eggs like I would want, so I've just been keeping it where the top reads high and the bottom reads low, but the bottom one is a pretty course measurement (the dinky thermos that comes with the hovabator) and the top one fluctuates and is almost always reading several degrees higher than the bottom... I worry that I'm keeping the temps too high, but I'm not sure since I don't really have an exact reading. I used the same setup last time and had OK success, but I kinda felt like I just got lucky.

Blah, blah, I digress. Got any comments/suggestions on my setup or the appropriate temps for duck eggs? Thanks.

i only use still air but in forced air the temps are a little higher. As long as u dont hit 103 degrees u should be fine. The correct temp for duck eggs should be 99.5 degrees for still air and 100 degrees for forced air. From what a website i found awhile back says. Humidity should be 85 dergrees on wet bulb and 55% throughout the incubator for the 1st 25 days. on lockdown humidity sould be 65% (88 degrees on wet bulb).

HOPE THIS HELPS!!!!

 

[stephanie1992]

I just set 32 more assorted eggs last night, plus 3 Pekin duck eggs. Waiting on more next week, 2 dozen Silkies. The week after, 1 dozen turkeys & a dozen orps & marans.

YAY!!! Cant wait to see how the hatching goes!!

 

[spiderlady]

Thanks! I'll let you guys know how my hatch goes - I still have a ways to go yet though!

Cheers

 

[Justin36]

Lockdown today, I bought my incubators used and don't have plugs but I am going to put earplugs in the holes to keep the humidity up.