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When I first started hatching call ducks I read over and over in the Internet to keep humidity around 75 to 80. Well mine was around 80 needless to say this was not correct information all mine ended up dead. 80 is to high of a humidity for them. So 75 is pushing but I would try to decrease it slowly if u can.
 
casportpony said:
I think they meant humidity.

-Kathy

Disclaimer: I know nothing about what the proper humidity is for hatching ducklings.
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You beat me to the punch!
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Yes, 65 is the humidity. I don't have a lot of hatching experience, but I do think 75% is starting to get a little too high. I just put eggs in the incubator Saturday night, and I think I'm going to aim for no higher than 65%, maybe 70%, with this hatching.
 
I think your numbers will be good. I ran my first hatch around 80% at lockdown and lost quite a few--I think 10 survived hatching out of 20 eggs. I can't say that I attribute ALL of those losses to humidity at lockdown--I was a novice at hatching & I was using shipped eggs. However, I didn't feel like I had optimum hatching conditions.

I wish you best of luck & look forward to following the saga of your hatch! It is exciting yet stressful all at the same time!
 
StitchMyStars6 said:
Ok, so would 65% humidity be good and 99°?
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Yes perfect, understand they have to absorb the yolk and any moisture in that shell before they come out and if there's to much moisture they get exhausted and can't do it.

Also keep in mind when they are out they are wet, the wetness on there bodies is going to rise that humidity, if your humidity is already at 75 it will get higher because of those that are out so therefore the ones that haven't hatched yet will struggle getting out.. So by keeping your humidity low, it's going to increase by those that are out but still keeping it at a decent percentage for those that are on the way.

You would think that because they are water fowl they can handle lots of moisture and although this is true it really only applies when they are out and have delevelop oil on there bodies.

Which reminds me, try to avoid them from swimming for the first week. You see when they have a mommy duck, she takes them under her wings and puts her oil on there bodies in which they need to stay afloat when swimming, since you are hatching these guys and can not do the same they need at least one week to produce there own oils to stay afloat.. Or they could drown. There little fluffy fur will act like a sponge and weigh them down because again they don't have the oil to roll off of them...
 
Lacrystol said:
When I first started hatching call ducks I read over and over in the Internet to keep humidity around 75 to 80. Well mine was around 80 needless to say this was not correct information all mine ended up dead. 80 is to high of a humidity for them. So 75 is pushing but I would try to decrease it slowly if u can.
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Well thank goodness this last one hatched with out problem, Hopefully the rest will too.
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By the way this info about hatching water fowl is in the duck sticky's so those of you that think this is not accurate should maybe ask to have it taken off.
 
Lacrystol said:
Definitely!!!!
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Hey Lacrystol did you see in that big post above about assisting the picture with the duckling with an unabsorbed yolk in a cup of water to help it absorb??? Have you tried that before??

I need to get on my computer so I can read through that part better....
 

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