Hatching Duck Eggs in a Suro: Day 31 and WRAP-UP

[1-duckling]

I'll be doing ducks next! Can't wait to see your results. Here was my cure for rolling eggs:

 

[Brickman House]

DAY 14: Temperature 99.5 F, humdity holding at 55%. Halfway through!

DAY 14, UPDATE: We did some candling tonight, to make sure everything was growing, and things look good! You can definitely see dark, C-shaped embryos, and many were clearly dancing around. The camera doesn't capture it particularly well, unfortunately, but here's a photo:

 

[Brickman House]

DAY 15: The temperature returned to 99.5 F almost immediately after candling last night, and the humidity returned to 55% within 20 minutes or so.

Today, everything is holding steady at 99.5 F and 55%. Incubator's looking good!

 

[Sweetfolly]

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I've been having a terrible time trying to keep my Candling Photo Diary - it had to go a whole 5 days without updates because I can't get decent pictures anymore! I can see into the egg very well, and it's amazing, but the camera doesn't capture it.

All 4 of my eggs are still going strong. One's about a day behind the others developmentally, but it's vigorous, and I think it'll be fine.

Here are my Day 14 pictures for comparison - I had to edit them a LOT to be able to see anything. My little sisters have described the "dancing" embryos as "freaky little peanuts"!

 

[Brickman House]

DAY 16: Temperature holding steady at 99.5 F, and humdity around 55%. I hate to count my ducklings before they hatch, but my thoughts are wandering around to . . . what am I going to do with 17 ducklings?!?!?


Annarie, good to know mine look like yours! Hopefully that means we're on the right track. I share your frustration getting decent photos of the candling-- I thought we had a good camera, but this is proving to be a challenge.

 

[arbucklemurphy]

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What kind of incubator is this? My son and I are borrowing an LG right now but are looking to buy are own but we are having trouble deciding which one to get. I really like the looks of this one. Have you had good results with it?

 

[Sweetfolly]

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What kind of incubator is this? My son and I are borrowing an LG right now but are looking to buy are own but we are having trouble deciding which one to get. I really like the looks of this one. Have you had good results with it?

It's an R-Com King Suro 20. It has electronic temperature and humidity control - it's similar to the Brinsea Octagon 20 Advance EX (the top of the line in the Brinsea Octagon series), but it's about half the price. It's still a pricey 'bator though, at somewhere around $250.

 

[Brickman House]

DAY 17: Temperature at 99.5 F, humidity at 55%. This week will be the real test, though, of the reliability of the incubator. I am leaving town for a week, and having a friend stay at the farm. She has strict instructions to call me if anything wavers, so we'll see how it continues to do. The one thing I did was change out the plain water bottle for a gallon jug, so she didn't have to worry about refilling the water. All I did was poke a hole through the plastic lid, and stick the tube in as far as it would go:

On the plus side, I won't have time this week to sit and obsess over the eggs! I'll be coming back the day before lockdown, so this incubation will have progressed very quickly for me!

 

[mitch324]

It looks like we will be hatching together. I have 18 Khaki Campbell's on scheduled to hatch on the 31st. I also have 17 mixed chicken that i started a week later so they will all hatch together.

 

[vlapinta]

We have 6 call duck eggs scheduled to hatch on the 31st

Vicki & Jaime