silkiemother
Crowing
So as an FFA side project I decided to see if I could hatch out duck eggs without the help of a modern incubator. I know it sounds weird but bear with me. I know I can successfully hatch out ducks like this due to intensive research of how they used to do it before we had modern incubators(with some modifications mind you) so I wanted to give it a go. How my incubator is set up is like this
(Thermometer is only reading low because I misted the eggs). I just set those eggs marked and dated yesterday but one of my friends suggested I set up a thread so people can follow along with me on my hatching journey. I did try experimentally like this before but I made the mistake of having crested parents so I’m hoping at least the two blue Swedish X runner mix eggs in there won’t have defects this go around. But my current schedule for what I’m doing with this eggs is hand rotating them three times a day, when I wake up for school, when I get home, and at 2:45 am in the night. I mist them five times a day(my mom mists them twice while I’m at school) as well as having a dish of water right next to them. The eggs are sitting on top of a bit of tinfoil so that the heat is distributed evenly then there is a towel underneath and underneath the towel is a bin full of dried beans so I can shape it to how I need the eggs and for a soft cushion. I’m using a heat lamp as my source of heat, carefully monitoring it so it stays between 98.9 and 99.6. And yes, I am planning on getting a device to measure humidity this time. So uhh, yeah, anyone want to follow along on this journey with me? Sorry if this is worded weird, I have no idea how to set something up this so others can understand easily, but I hope it works
@HeatherKellyB @Weeg @BelovedPoultry thought y’all might be interested in this
(Thermometer is only reading low because I misted the eggs). I just set those eggs marked and dated yesterday but one of my friends suggested I set up a thread so people can follow along with me on my hatching journey. I did try experimentally like this before but I made the mistake of having crested parents so I’m hoping at least the two blue Swedish X runner mix eggs in there won’t have defects this go around. But my current schedule for what I’m doing with this eggs is hand rotating them three times a day, when I wake up for school, when I get home, and at 2:45 am in the night. I mist them five times a day(my mom mists them twice while I’m at school) as well as having a dish of water right next to them. The eggs are sitting on top of a bit of tinfoil so that the heat is distributed evenly then there is a towel underneath and underneath the towel is a bin full of dried beans so I can shape it to how I need the eggs and for a soft cushion. I’m using a heat lamp as my source of heat, carefully monitoring it so it stays between 98.9 and 99.6. And yes, I am planning on getting a device to measure humidity this time. So uhh, yeah, anyone want to follow along on this journey with me? Sorry if this is worded weird, I have no idea how to set something up this so others can understand easily, but I hope it works
@HeatherKellyB @Weeg @BelovedPoultry thought y’all might be interested in this
