Anyone setting new eggs now?

[carcar80]

Wish I'd thought to ask before I sat mine out to warm up.. Anyone setting/recently set eggs?

 

[michellemcfeely]

I just put some in the incubator on Saturday but am not having much luck finding help.

 

[carcar80]

What are you needing help with?

 

[michellemcfeely]

My question at the moment has to do with incubating call duck eggs. I currently have them in the auto-egg turner but it keeps them vertical I keep reading with duck eggs that they need to be on theirsides, which is best and can I still put them on their sides and manually turn them? I'm on day 5 of incubation

 

[carcar80]

I just lay mine on their sides and turn them over 3x/day..

 

[michellemcfeely]

Thank you, you are the first to answer questions. I am going to take mine out of the turner and do them the way you are. I so want the best odds for these little babies to hatch.

 

[carcar80]

Well I've not hatched a lot and others here have waay more exp, just telling you how I've done it. Good luck!!

 

[carcar80]

Turn them as much as you want, some do more than three.. Jut be sure it's an odd nmbr of turns so that the eggs "sleep" on a different side each night.

 

[michellemcfeely]

Thank you I appreciate your help. This is my first time doing eggs

 

[mominoz]

I set my 2nd set of Silky duck eggs,a few SQ Runners,A few Dutch Hookbills. My Silkyducks started laying early and may have quit.2 older females settting, so they have a few eggs, runner,and silky (whatever I could get under them) and my Runners really are just seem to get on to laying now. So i am collecting theirs. I am using a still air Hovabator and have some goose eggs set in them too. I am trying for a staggered hatch.... 2 incubators and may get a third for hatching. Had a bad year last year with 3 power outages, and many mistakes and spikes....
So I set some the 3/16 and some 3/31-4/1