Duck Eggs - To Spray Or Not To Spray?

[bibi87]

I read somewhere that cooling and spraying ducks are both old fashioned and no longer considered best practices. Is that true?

 

[Amaan Ali]

I read somewhere that cooling and spraying ducks are both old fashioned and no longer considered best practices. Is that true?

I was watching a recent post by someone on youtube, they said it should be sprayed because duck eggs needs higher humidity and by spraying its just copy of duck when she goes out and swim than come back to the coop wet and sat on eggs again.

 

[JaeG]

I've read people on here who say they've tried both spraying/cooling the eggs and not and their hatch rate was the same either way. I'm incubating Muscovy eggs, currently on day 16, and I haven't been spraying them. They've been losing the perfect amount of weight each week and are doing just fine.

 

[Mylied]

First duck hatch I didn't spray and cool. 1 hatched. Several died in the shell at the end. Second duck hatch I sprayed and cooled. Everyone who made it that far hatched. I'm on my third duck hatch and I'm spraying and cooling. Not sure whether it really helps or not but it makes me feel better. They are due in roughly 4 days.