Automatic or manual egg turning (duck) ?

[Smallduckproject]

I have a small JANOEL 12 Incubator, and I’m using it for my first time incubating 6 duck eggs.
It comes with an automatic Turner, but I read that for larger eggs like a duck egg, it’s better to turn the eggs manually at least 4 times a day.. is this true? Will I have better luck manually turning the eggs, or should I use the automatic one?
If I should just use the Automatic Turner, how often a day or when should I let the eggs cool off and how for long ??

 

[JaeG]

I've always hand turned my eggs and I have read that duck eggs do better being hand turned. It needs to be an odd number of times per day so that the egg isn't always resting on the same side overnight. I'm currently incubating Muscovy eggs and they are doing great even though I have not misted or cooled my eggs (I've read a few people on here who saw no difference whether they did or they didn't do this). I'm tracking their weight loss to monitor the humidity and they are on track.

If you want to cool I think it's around 10-15 minutes a day and you spray them just before you put them back in the incubator (to imitate the mother duck coming back from a dip in the pond).

Duck eggs should be incubated lying down unless there are loose air cells from shipping. I sat mine vertically for 3 days until the air cells settled down, then I lay the eggs down.

 

[Smallduckproject]

I've always hand turned my eggs and I have read that duck eggs do better being hand turned. It needs to be an odd number of times per day so that the egg isn't always resting on the same side overnight. I'm currently incubating Muscovy eggs and they are doing great even though I have not misted or cooled my eggs (I've read a few people on here who saw no difference whether they did or they didn't do this). I'm tracking their weight loss to monitor the humidity and they are on track.

If you want to cool I think it's around 10-15 minutes a day and you spray them just before you put them back in the incubator (to imitate the mother duck coming back from a dip in the pond).

Duck eggs should be incubated lying down unless there are loose air cells from shipping. I sat mine vertically for 3 days until the air cells settled down, then I lay the eggs down.

That was super helpful, thank you so much