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Can I hatch both duck and chicken together?

Mar 6, 2024
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Good evening guys need help using a GFQ sportsman 1202 incubator. Can I hatch both duck and chicken together. I am thinking humidity issues? If you can do both how would this work?
 
You can hatch them together, but the biggest con is that duck eggs need to have a slightly higher humidity than chicken eggs. So you have to decide if you want to give the chicks or the ducklings a better chance, or try for somewhere in the middle. I have tried this in the past, and don't plan on doing it again due to that. I didn't have the greatest hatch rate, and a lot of the ducklings had trouble hatching.
Since most duck eggs take 28 days and chickens only 21, I would set the duck eggs one week before the chicken eggs so that they all go into lockdown at the same time.
 

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