Dixie Chicks

[Alaskan]

Nope. One bator. There will be chicken eggs, khaki campbell, and muscoveys.

It reduces hatch rate a bit... But isn't terrible.

I raise humidity at the very last possible minute for hatch, then remove humidity as fast as possible.

 

[bamadude]

Totally! By the time those girls start laying again I should have the groups set up and the right juices in the right girls So excited already about setting my incubators but i suspect that i won't have anything to incubate for at least a month after the move!

Bama, I'd set the eggs that take the longest first. Give them a few days head start provided the additional eggs are super "fresh". I'd also do a dry hatch. 

My best results with chicken eggs have always been dry hatching

 

[perchie.girl]

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Ducks may be different I dont know.

 

[perchie.girl]

Those of you with Muscovys. I hear they perch. What height would be appropriate for a 'Scovy house.

deb

 

[hennible]

My scovies will perch on my roof, in the coop they seem happy on the top tear of my broody pen, about 6 feet high, the rafters sit at 8 feet the peek at about 12 or so. They also enjoy the level of the broody pen that is only 36" off the ground. The rafters are too narrow for them I think, so they don't go up there. It might be differnt if I clipped their wings...
You can dry hatch ducks apparently.

 

[hennible]

This thing is my broody pen, they like the top and the middle which is open right now.

 

[BriardChickens]

I have been doing dry chicken hatches too in the brinsea 7, I may give my new big brinsea a small test run to see if dry or humid... it has the humidity pump etc...

 

[Beer can]

Nope. One bator. There will be chicken eggs, khaki campbell, and muscoveys.

That sounds like fun. Did you know khaki take 28 but muscovey are like a subspecies of duck or something and take 35 days?

 

[hennible]

Yup 35 days, just not descendant of mallards like the rest of the domestic ducks. They originated in South America and are closer to geese than ducks genatically... At least that what I've read.

 

[hennible]

They can cross with other ducks resulting in mule ducks.