Kiwiduck34
In the Brooder
- Jul 2, 2020
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Hello!
I’ve currently got 8 mallard duck eggs incubating in my homemade incubator with an automatic turner. My temp has been averaging at 99-100° and humidity has been around 50-55%. My problem is that 6 of the eggs look like they have smaller than usual air sacs and two of them have huge air sacs. Plus, one of the ones that has a huge air sac also looks like it has fluid in the air sac. (I plan on hatching this one in an egg carton) They are currently on day 20 of incubation. I candled them today and they are all moving about. I've been misting them once a day since day 15. I’ve hatched ducks out before but I’ve only had one with an unusually large air sac and it hatched out just fine. I do have another incubator at my disposal if I need to split them up. Should I leave the 6 in the incubator, lower the humidity, and keep misting them daily? Meanwhile I could move the two odd ones to another incubator with 55% humidity and not mist them at all.
Does anyone have any advice on what to do? Thanks!
I’ve currently got 8 mallard duck eggs incubating in my homemade incubator with an automatic turner. My temp has been averaging at 99-100° and humidity has been around 50-55%. My problem is that 6 of the eggs look like they have smaller than usual air sacs and two of them have huge air sacs. Plus, one of the ones that has a huge air sac also looks like it has fluid in the air sac. (I plan on hatching this one in an egg carton) They are currently on day 20 of incubation. I candled them today and they are all moving about. I've been misting them once a day since day 15. I’ve hatched ducks out before but I’ve only had one with an unusually large air sac and it hatched out just fine. I do have another incubator at my disposal if I need to split them up. Should I leave the 6 in the incubator, lower the humidity, and keep misting them daily? Meanwhile I could move the two odd ones to another incubator with 55% humidity and not mist them at all.
Does anyone have any advice on what to do? Thanks!