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[casportpony]

@Hangtown Farms , congrats on your chick! I have a favor to ask... can you look in your RCOM manual and tell me what the settings for Muscovies are? Can't find mine.

-Kathy

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Now they're at 65-70%, but were incubated at 45% in an RCOM 20 Max. Have a few that either tried to pip or did pip in the non-air cell portion at the large end. This brown spot is where one was trying to pip.




-Kathy

i generally do 65% at hatch too. trying 60% this time. I like 35% for the first 18 days on dark eggs

 

[lawatt]

@Hangtown Farms , congrats on your chick! I have a favor to ask... can you look in your RCOM manual and tell me what the settings for Muscovies are? Can't find mine.

-Kathy

I have the same incubator, and just looked in manual, but it doesn't have settings listed for specific kinds of eggs...?

 

[Hangtown Farms]

@Hangtown Farms , congrats on your chick! I have a favor to ask... can you look in your RCOM manual and tell me what the settings for Muscovies are? Can't find mine.

-Kathy

yeah will do

 

[Audio51]

Quote: I was thinking about that too...once they were already in the incubator. I was able to band all the others right after hatch but I wasn't expecting the OE to be out of the shell that quickly. It only had one tiny external pip when I went to bed last night and was out and pretty dry by the time I got up at 5:30 this morning. The other Marans had just hatched and was pretty weak still so I didn't want to pester it by taking it out to band. Next time I will do it any way! Fortunately all the AM's have been mottled in appearance so no problems there. I just hope they keep their bands on under the broodies....

 

[Audio51]

Cute cute cute!!
Happy birthday deann!
Audio look for spots of other color on the chicks fcbms will be all black and white and should all have feathered shanks. The legs of the oes should ve different in a few weeks too.
We are comming back from the serama show!

One of the Marans does not have feathered shanks though. I was looking for that right away....

Hope you brought home some Seramas!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

@Hangtown Farms , congrats on your chick! I have a favor to ask... can you look in your RCOM manual and tell me what the settings for Muscovies are? Can't find mine.

-Kathy

I don't see Muskovies but says
Duck 28 days 99.5 degrees
45-55% first 25-26 days then 65%

 

[Audio51]

Quote: I haven't had many hatches at all but would rather err on the safe side. Maybe I will leave them until the end of next week. If they are not really ready to hatch yet, does the higher humidity and slightly lower temperature of lockdown negatively affect them?

 

[Audio51]

Quote: Let us know what they say...

 

[Audio51]

Does anybody know what makes an egg Porous? Sometimes when I gather eggs I notice a porous egg so I'm guessing it does not have to do with age. I never ship or sell pourus eggs and once had a complaint that someone received some. Maybe temperature?

I have one 2 year old red sex link that lays porous eggs fairly often. She will lay pretty normal ones foe several days, then a porous one, then maybe go back to normal or lay a shell-less one. She was a hatchery/feedstore bird..one of my first ans sold to me as a Buff Orphington. If I had the nerve to make her a freezer bird I would. She lays like that even though there is free-choice oyster shell available all the time