Can you hatch duck/goose eggs with chicken eggs?

[willow]

My geese are laying

and so are my cuyuga/ancona ducks

Can I incubate them with the chicken eggs?? I put them together last year but had very low hatch rate.

If I need to do something different can some one help me? I'd really like to hatch these. I really need advice from all the "eggsperts".

 

[gabrielle1976]

I am shure I have read about people that have but I have sometimers , sometimes I remmber some times I dont, I need to know to I want to try hatching ducks and chickens in my sons class , I know I need to set the ducks a week earler as they take 28 intead of 21 but I cant figure out how the humidity will work.
Some one will know Im shure

 

[LoveMyBirds]

Ducks and Geese are very nasty as you know from your hatch last year.

If you do hatch together, be sure to seperate them afterwards.

On the ducks/geese, the humidity would have to be lot higher than on the chicks..

So, that's another reason I wouldn't hatch duck/geese with any other eggs..

 

[cici_p]

I have always heard no, although some people do so successfully. And I just found another site that said many people use the dry incubation method successfully with both ducks and geese! (Confusing!). . .
I have chosen to wait until my silkie eggs have hatched before trying ducks and geese. . .but if you have a hatcher I have heard you may be able to add the duck and geese eggs on the last week of the chicken eggs, when the humidity is higher.
Good luck!

 

[willow]

Yeah, I have read that you can put them together but judging from last years bunch, I don't know.

One place I read that you can but if they need higher humidity how can that be??

As far as the dry method, I guess I'm a little dumb. I don't really understand that.

That's why I figured I'd post the question here and learn how to hatch'em

 

[ChevygirlBeth]

I was curious about this, too since I'm getting chicken and duck eggs from Miss_Jayne soon.

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