Can You Incubate Chicken and Duck Eggs Together??

[KHoward]

Maybe I got lucky, but I put my duck eggs (Pekin and Campbell 28 days) in a week earlier than my chicken eggs (21 days) and then they all hatch within a day or two of one another.

 

[wahab]

YES YOU CAN
I have hatch chicken eggs with ducks eggs together I put the chicken eggs after 7 days into the inubator
that is how it work,

 

[Amber681]

I guess if you never have done it, it is impossible..

I hatch all kinds of eggs together with successful results..

I do not know how you can confuse a duck egg with a chicken egg.

this past summer I hatched chicken,duck,guinea and turkey eggs together.. I even threw a few quail eggs into the batch for kicks.

I sold about 300 birds this summer.
this week we will be butchering about 80 chickens.. all hatched by me in an old sportsman bator.. and a few in a hovabator..

When you are incubating them all together what are you keeping your temperature and humidity at? I just tried to hatch Rouen ducks and they all died before lockdown. I had my temp at 99.5 to 100 I didn’t have the humidity high about 45 throughout the process.

 

[Sir-Mulch-A-Lot]

When you are incubating them all together what are you keeping your temperature and humidity at?

Good question. I'm wondering that myself. Chickens need 37,8 Celsius and Duck Eggs 37,5 Celsius. Is 37,6 Celsius a good compromise?

 

[tobyabraham2113]

Hi! I have incubated chicken eggs and duck eggs together successfully.
I didn't do anything differently 'humidity-wise' during incubation or hatching --- moved Day 18 and Day 25 duck eggs from the incubator into the hatcher.
Mostly, I've let my bantam Frizzle hens hatch duck eggs and they do a fine job.
You could use the separate incubator for hatching the ducklings if they need to 'come out' at a different time.

Lisa

Do the ducks not drown in the humidity?