Hatching Duck Eggs

[CityChicker]

I typically use higher humidity and one thing I always forget to mention is the temperature. I have better hatches at lower temperature than you often see quoted. I keep my incubators set at 99.3 degrees and drop to about 98.8-ish for the last couple days (temperature during hatch though is still something that we constantly battle with and really depends probably a lot on the incubator). I am going to do some test hatches this year where I use even lower temperature, probably around 99 degrees just to see what happens. I wouldn't recommend that though for most people. We are at high elevation and my conjecture is that it might really affect optimal temperature since our boiling point is so much lower. We shall see.

 

[DaKid]

Scott

I might add that some people, including myself, believe that for optimum hatch conditions duck eggs should be turned on their sides not vertically.

do you hand turn them or are you using a egg turner









Thanks for all the infor. everyone

Alan​

 

[Germaine_11.20]

Scott, should they be incubated on their sides also?