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Thanks! I hope yours start up as well soon. I read on one your posts that you use artificial incubation with your call eggs. What kind of hatch rate are you getting? And what kind of incubator do you use? Temp? Humidity? In the past, I've always used natural incubation. However, I need all my cochins laying right now and I've got a new
brinsea incubator that needs to be broke in! So, I'm thinking of trying artificial incubation with the first batch of call eggs. I know that my cochin hens can do better than I, but like I said: I want to try out my new
brinsea.
Oh, and what varieties do you raise?
I use a
Brinsea Octagon 40. Ive been getting good hatch rates. Around day 4 or 7 I start cooling the eggs for 15 min per day and misting them down during that cooling period. I found that cooling the eggs has greatly increased my hatch rates. I dont really pay attention to the humidity the first 23 days, I just moniter the air sacs, and if they are too small, I will mist that egg extra. The temp is 37.4-37.6 celsius, what the manufacturer recommends. Humidity the last 3 days, day 23-26, is around 70%. Ive been getting in the 90% range. Just make sure you use an incubator that sits on a cradle to turn. I have had horrible results with the yellow hovabator egg turners.
I have gray, white, and mixed colored call ducks.
