Magepalm
In the Brooder
I'm really curious. I have a ways to go before worrying about this but if raising baby ducklings has taught me anything in the past week now, it's that a lot of the questions you should have been researching, you didn't know to research til something goes wrong or you hear after the fact about a potential issue.
I'm one of those people that has to do the minimum order of poultry from a hatchery (ideal poultry because they are the only ones I've found I don't have to pay way more out the wazoo for because they are so close) so it'd be no different for eggs. I already have found that if I screw up, they wont hatch. And I'm talking ducks so I know I have to have more humidity. I'm trying to work with what I have as much as possible, and what i have is a ceramic bulb that heats but doesn't put off light (the ducklings seemed to have LOVED it and slept very well idk if that's why), a heating pad, I do have a broken down fridge that before this endevor I was going to get rid off, and actually it was aquaponics that made me hang on to it just in case initially. I also have a fish tank and a couple filters and all that jazz. I'm wondering if there's an effective way to use that tank and the heating lamp and or the heating pad to hatch some ducklings and eventually some other things like goslings and chicks? I'm really new to this but I want to learn the best way while not forgetting I'm broke right now lol. I know ducks need a lot of humidity and plan on spending money on the thermometer/humidity thing cause that is what i have to be able to monitor.
I'm one of those people that has to do the minimum order of poultry from a hatchery (ideal poultry because they are the only ones I've found I don't have to pay way more out the wazoo for because they are so close) so it'd be no different for eggs. I already have found that if I screw up, they wont hatch. And I'm talking ducks so I know I have to have more humidity. I'm trying to work with what I have as much as possible, and what i have is a ceramic bulb that heats but doesn't put off light (the ducklings seemed to have LOVED it and slept very well idk if that's why), a heating pad, I do have a broken down fridge that before this endevor I was going to get rid off, and actually it was aquaponics that made me hang on to it just in case initially. I also have a fish tank and a couple filters and all that jazz. I'm wondering if there's an effective way to use that tank and the heating lamp and or the heating pad to hatch some ducklings and eventually some other things like goslings and chicks? I'm really new to this but I want to learn the best way while not forgetting I'm broke right now lol. I know ducks need a lot of humidity and plan on spending money on the thermometer/humidity thing cause that is what i have to be able to monitor.
