Hatching ducks

[Emchick160]

Hi there,
First time hatcher of anything here, which will become quite apparent as you continue to read!
Husband and I bought 2 doz fertile chicken eggs from a breeder, and after hearing that hubby was a chef, she gave him several duck and quail eggs to eat.
When we got home and set up the incubator, we also put in a couple of quail and duck eggs at the same time. We are on day 7 today and I have just candled a few eggs, and as the duck eggs are white I wanted to use them to compare to see what I should be seeing in a non fertile egg, only to see veins inside the duck egg!!!
After a quick look on google, I see that the chickens should be ready to hatch about a week earlier than the ducks will be ready, so my question is... What do I do?? I don't want to harm the quails, chicks or ducklings but with 3 different hatch rates and one incubator I'm unsure how to proceed, any info would be a huge help to this novice, lesson learned!

 

[casportpony]

Hi there,
First time hatcher of anything here, which will become quite apparent as you continue to read!
Husband and I bought 2 doz fertile chicken eggs from a breeder, and after hearing that hubby was a chef, she gave him several duck and quail eggs to eat.
When we got home and set up the incubator, we also put in a couple of quail and duck eggs at the same time. We are on day 7 today and I have just candled a few eggs, and as the duck eggs are white I wanted to use them to compare to see what I should be seeing in a non fertile egg, only to see veins inside the duck egg!!!
After a quick look on google, I see that the chickens should be ready to hatch about a week earlier than the ducks will be ready, so my question is... What do I do?? I don't want to harm the quails, chicks or ducklings but with 3 different hatch rates and one incubator I'm unsure how to proceed, any info would be a huge help to this novice, lesson learned!

Can you buy another incubator? One can get a Janoel48 on ebay for about $108. If you could do that, you could transfer the chicken eggs on day 19.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

How long do quail take?

-Kathy

 

[Emchick160]

Thanks Kathy, I told a friend about my dilemma and she suggested I just borrow an incubator... DUH!! Why didnt I think of that haha!! Quails take about 18 days I think, but im not worried about them as I candles them and they look clear to me

 

[casportpony]

Perfect!

-Kathy

 

[buff goose guy]

You could halways bye a hatching incubator , one without a turner so you just place the eggs that are done turning into the hatcher for them to hatch with harming the other eggs .

 

[casportpony]

You could halways bye a hatching incubator , one without a turner so you just place the eggs that are done turning into the hatcher for them to hatch with harming the other eggs .

That's sort of what I suggested in post #2. The Janoel 48 is a great hatcher for $108.

-Kathy

 

[buff goose guy]

Or you can get a hove incubator for 99.00 dollars from their website or efowl.com it works great as well .

 

[casportpony]

Or you can get a hove incubator for 99.00 dollars from their website or efowl.com it works great as well .

The Janoel 48 is all digital, easy to clean plastic, has a fan, and turner! I have one and use it for hatching, but have also used it for incubation. Either way, I think it's a better bang for the buck.

-Kathy

 

[buff goose guy]

Same for the hova , and the hova comes with automatic quail, duck, and chicken turn trays I you choose to get them, built in fan and all that jazz I love mine