Help! My duck eggs are in the incubator air cellar seem a little small. How do I mist them right wa

[Shannonw1228]

I have ancona duck eggs in nurture right 360 incubator. I'm at say 19. Air cells seem a little small. I had at 55 percent humidity. I'm reading about misting duck eggs. Is it ok just to open and spray them with room temperature water or do I have to let them cool then spray? Two air cells are bigger but i had in different incubator which i moved to my new nutri right 360. The rest seem about day 10-12 going my pictures i looked up on the air cells. Should i be lowering my humidity a little to?
I'd appreciate any help. They are shipped eggs but besides the two air cells look good they are not moving around.
Should I keep temp at 99.5 through lockdown or lower it?

 

[chickens really]

Drop your humidity for two days..Yours sounds a bit too high. I incubate at 40%..I have never misted Duck eggs.
Candle the eggs daily till the air cells get bigger. Also the last week they lose a lot of moisture naturally.
I Lockdown at 60%

 

[lazy gardener]

Agreed with CR. It was old school to mist duck eggs. That practice has been dropped in light of studies that show that misting eggs does not improve their hatch rate. I incubate chicken eggs at 30 - 40% until lock down, then increase to 65%.

 

[Shannonw1228]

Drop your humidity for two days..Yours sounds a bit too high. I incubate at 40%..I have never misted Duck eggs.
Candle the eggs daily till the air cells get bigger. Also the last week they lose a lot of moisture naturally.
I Lockdown at 60%

Ok I'm lowering it. What do you put your temperature and humidity at at lockdown I've seen some posts saying leave the temp at 99.5 during lockdown some say lower it a little. What has worked for you?
If I post pictures of air cells tonight could you tell me if they look really bad. I'm assuming two of them might not hatch. They have huge air cells one looks saddled but they are not detached. I had these two in hovabator which humidity and temperature bounce around more then this nurture right 360 incubator.

 

[Shannonw1228]

Agreed with CR. It was old school to mist duck eggs. That practice has been dropped in light of studies that show that misting eggs does not improve their hatch rate. I incubate chicken eggs at 30 - 40% until lock down, then increase to 65%.

Ok I wont mist them. You hear such mixed stories I have been reading about incubating duck eggs for two months and still feel as I'm doing it all wrong lol. I bought 12 ancona duck eggs online. Four were gone right away. 8 are still going on day 19. No detached air cells so I think I'm lucky so far from what I've been reading. She did have them packaged pretty good.

 

[lazy gardener]

 

[Shannonw1228]

Here is one of them

 

[Shannonw1228]

Here is 2

 

[Shannonw1228]

Here is one that looked saddled that I had in hovabator hundidity doesn't stay same in that one added to the other incubator yesterday still big but doesn't looked saddled I dont think

 

[smithmal]

Hello, I'm thinking about purchasing the Nurture Right 360. Have you had any issues with your eggs not rolling due to size on the NR360? How large are ancona eggs? I read that they are upward to 70g which is medium to small in size in relation to eggs that other breeds lay. Is this true?

Currently I'm using the Brinsea Mini Advance II and trying to hatch Welsh Harlequin duck eggs. This incubator only has space for seven eggs. Unfortunately the WH duck eggs are too large (they are typically 75-85g) and will not roll properly using this incubator so I have to hand turn them (done every 8 hours). I also don't like the fact that you can't adust humidity with this unit. The Brinsea Mini Advance II does have an automatic cooling function though which is nice for hatching duck eggs.

Considering hatching rates can be as low as 50% the more eggs you can incubate at one time the better your odds of getting enough ducklings to hatch. I'm only interested in taking care of hens so my odds of getting healthy hens from a hatch go down another 50%.

Any information you can provide would be helpful.