Done with hatching eggs!

[StevenW.]

Temp was 100 degrees the whole incubation and during hatching

 

[paddock36]

What about turning?

 

[StevenW.]

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Auto turner

 

[4-H chicken mom]

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What about misting? Don't give up. Try, try again.

Edited to add. I don't use a auto turner on duck eggs. My hatching rate with my BEI were not that good until I started to hand turn.

 

[paddock36]

I give up....I guess you should quit........Just kidding. Keep trying! Again, I really can't say anything about duck eggs. I had two that I tried one time but they didn't hatch....I had forgotten about that until my DS reminded me. I would double check your thermostat and keep trying. Just remember how much enjoyment you got from the ones you hatched.

 

[StevenW.]

I'm going to have to think harder about the next hatch... Maybe some easier eggs to hatch... Any ideas?

Hand turning worked very very well with the goose eggs, I hatched 1 out of 2 eggs cause the one wasnt fertile and this egg wasnt in the same bator it was in a LG ( go figure

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[paddock36]

My incubator is homemade. I hand turn my eggs. The temp may not be as perfect but it keeps excellent humidity. I have recently borrowed a storebought incubator from a friend. It keeps excellent temp but the humidity is not as consistant. Maybe that could be your problem with the duck eggs. From what a friend told me.....duck eggs require higher humidity, and they take longer too....that reminds me, what kind of duck eggs? Some take quite a long time? Maybe yours weren't ready yet? Or did I forget already

 

[TriciaHowe]

Does yours have a fan or still air?
What was your humidity at?

 

[HHandbasket]

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Where did you have your temperature set? I have to run mine at 103 to get 99 at egg level. You're right about humidity - that's pretty easy to keep stable.

Was gonna say the same thing. We set ours at 102-103 for it to maintain 99-100 degree temps. The bottom shelf in the Reptipro is about 7-10 degrees cooler than the top two shelves for some reason, so I never put eggs in the bottom shelves (even though the box shows the bottom full of eggs).

 

[shelleyd2008]

I second the suggestion about getting another thermometer or two, it sounds like your temps are too low.