HATCH WITH ME!! Muscovy eggs due May 11th !

[snowhorse]

So I just put 2 & 1/2 dozen Muscovy eggs in my brand new HovaBator 1602N. I put a fan kit in it, and an automatic egg turner. Also have a digital therm and hygo.

I started the incubator last night and just put them in the temp was 100 with 54% humidity. I turned it down a little bit and with all the eggs in there it will take it a bit to get back up to temp I would think anyways.
I am aiming for 99.5 with 55% humidity, that's atleast what I have been reading.

The eggs are a little old, and I hit some really hard bumps on the way home, so I am hoping atleast a few will hatch.
Planning to candle on Day 14 - April 20th. See how many losers I have.

This is my first hatch and experience with an incubator ever! So wish me lots and lots of luck

And any suggestions or helpful ideas would be much appreciated....I do have 35 days after all!!!!

Some are possible Pekin cross- so those may hatch early if I am correct I guess I will start looking out around day 30.

 

[HenPen]

Mind if I join you? I have 27 Muscovies...putting them in the bator tonight....I am not counting on a hatch because half the eggs are to check fertility and the others are almost 2 weeks old.

 

[snowhorse]

I think I am going to candle on sunday to see if I have anything......because they have been sitting for so long.

 

[HenPen]

I am less one egg because I dropped one...I am going to candle in a week instead of waiting my usual 10-14 days

 

[snowhorse]

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Thats what I am thinking too, I am getting some free chicken eggs off a lady this weekend, and will throw them in the bator if none of these are any good. I hope I get atleast a couple!

 

[HenPen]

The 11 eggs I have here are older then yours and the other 15 I got we have no idea how old they are because we just found where she was laying them so I am praying something developes....

 

[snowhorse]

So I candled a majority and didn't see anything exciting

I think I am going to give them another week and try again.

 

[Ariel301]

I've got turkey eggs in the incubator that are due May 6th. (Which also happens to be my husband's birthday, what a neat present if they make it!) I thought those take a long time at 28 days, but 35? That's a long time to wait! I'm hoping these make it. Every batch of eggs so far has failed, but have made it a little farther than the last ones. The last ones before these, three started hatching and died, so hopefully these will hatch and live.

 

[HenPen]

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I candled 7 just because I could not wait and nothing,I never candle them taht early so I am hoping it was just because it was to early....

 

[Cindiloohoo]

I think that is candling early on eggs that take 35 days...I would think anyway. If you candled chicken eggs like that it would be the equivalent of candling at 4 days which will show...nothing. If it's 7 days when you guys candled that is 1/5th of the way to full term. 4 days is roughly 1/5th of 21 day full term on chickens. It makes sense to me anyway

I have some Muscovies in that were taken from a nesting broody duck. The eggs would have been destroyed otherwise. So the day I got them I candled and they were 19 out of 25 that had little duckies! I have NO CLUE when the hatch date is supposed to be! I am figuring around April 28th or first week of May so you all can count me in. First time with duck eggs, AND first time with eggs that are developing before I got them! I'm running 100 degrees and 60% humidity. I plan on bumping humidity up higher the end of this week to around 70% and then the following week to 75% since I don't know the hatch date. I am HOPING that will get it close enough to right to not matter too much and I will have a good hatch. Wish me good hatching...I'm gonna need it!