Hatching chicks and ducklings in the same incubator?!?!

[Farm life101]

hello all,
I just recently bought an incubator to hatch babies and I’m having troubles. I have 2 duck eggs and 2 silkie eggs in there. Both of the duck eggs and one of the silkie eggs went it on the 4th and the other silkie egg went in on the 10th. So how do I do the part where the last three days the humidity goes up to 70% if I still have eggs that are behind?

 

[alexa009]

The humidity definitely needs to be increased. If too low, it will stiffen the membrane on the eggs that are in lockdown and causing the chicks to become shrink wrapped. I would increase your humidity level to 65% and see what happens. Didn't you ever pause and think ahead of time before attempting to put new eggs into the incubator?

 

[Midvalekid]

I have hatched various species in the same incubator with different start dates several times. I had almost no problems. I marked the date in pencil on their shells before I put them in and then checked every day for who was coming up to hatch soon. When they were three days from hatching, I moved them to a cardboard egg carton lid cut to fit in one corner of the incubator. I would moisten the lid every day but not let it get too wet. My incubator is simple so I have no idea what the actual humidity level was, but I hatched about fifty turkey and chicken eggs over the course of last spring and only lost three or four eggs. I helped two of them hatch after it was taking more than a day for them to progress, but they all survived except one. I am sure this is not the best advice, but it worked for me and it was worth it.

 

[Farm life101]

I have hatched various species in the same incubator with different start dates several times. I had almost no problems. I marked the date in pencil on their shells before I put them in and then checked every day for who was coming up to hatch soon. When they were three days from hatching, I moved them to a cardboard egg carton lid cut to fit in one corner of the incubator. I would moisten the lid every day but not let it get too wet. My incubator is simple so I have no idea what the actual humidity level was, but I hatched about fifty turkey and chicken eggs over the course of last spring and only lost three or four eggs. I helped two of them hatch after it was taking more than a day for them to progress, but they all survived except one. I am sure this is not the best advice, but it worked for me and it was worth it.

Will try doing that thanks

 

[Farm life101]

The humidity definitely needs to be increased. If too low, it will stiffen the membrane on the eggs that are in lockdown and causing the chicks to become shrink wrapped. I would increase your humidity level to 65% and see what happens. Didn't you ever pause and think ahead of time before attempting to put new eggs into the incubator?

I didn’t think it would be an issue but then I remembered that they hatch on different days. Right now I keep it as close to 55 as possible.

 

[Shamo Hybrid]

Should be fine.... I hatched my eggs at a low humidity throughout the process from beginning to lockdown and all of them made it apart from 1 that pipped, zipped, and did the dip before he finally exhausted himself and didn't fully make it out of the shell and died. I probably could have saved it but being my first time at incubating, I was pretty dumb.

 

[sourland]

Adapt humidity levels somewhat to favor the greater number of eggs.