- Oct 24, 2012
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My Broody hen (chook) chucked my 5 duck eggs out from under her last night, I had the incubator up & running (testing it out, it's new) so I chucked the eggs in there... Then the confusion came...
I googled rocking eggs and almost everything I read said to up the humidity to 70% - 80% and wait (Lockdown) and I did that, I waited and watch for 2 hours and saw a few rocks and since all was steady & it was midnight I went to bed. When I got up today I did some more googling and have discovered that humidity shouldn't go up till external pipping has happened....
So what do I do now? My eggs are not rocking and I am worried that I have killed my babies and I am desperate to open the incubator and candle the eggs but don't want to just in case they are sleeping (fingers crosed)
:/
Can anyone help me please!!
I googled rocking eggs and almost everything I read said to up the humidity to 70% - 80% and wait (Lockdown) and I did that, I waited and watch for 2 hours and saw a few rocks and since all was steady & it was midnight I went to bed. When I got up today I did some more googling and have discovered that humidity shouldn't go up till external pipping has happened....
So what do I do now? My eggs are not rocking and I am worried that I have killed my babies and I am desperate to open the incubator and candle the eggs but don't want to just in case they are sleeping (fingers crosed)
:/
Can anyone help me please!!