Humidity in Bator...EXCELLENT INFO HERE! EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS!

[Buster]

Sorry you haven't been feeling well Wheaties. Hope you are back in action again soon. Glad to see we all have a bunch of chicks running around now!

 

[charlotteda]

I think this is one of the most informative threads I have ever read on any forum..

Thanks to all of you who participated...

Charlotte

 

[ninjapoodles]

Let me heartily echo that--I was setting 40 eggs and hatching THREE, if I was lucky. Then I read carefully through this entire thread, set my next hatch (staggered, even) accordingly, and today I have 22 little fuzzybutts, mostly from shipped eggs! Thank you, wheaties!

 

[Suellyn]

Hi, Wheaties, so sorry to hear you were under the weather, hope all is well now!!

I just want to post a long overdue "Thank you" to you, Jamie821, and Broody Jean, for an incredibly successful first hatch. Out of 12 eggs 2 were infertile'"clear", so don't really count in my hatch rate, 1 stopped developing around day 15, but had been lagging behind the others in embryo AND air cell size right along (I truly believe this one was genetically doomed from the onset), and the other 9 hatched easily without much incident, and are all thriving (and EMBARRASSINGLY spoiled by my 2 little girls!!).

I kept humidity at about 38% days 1-18, then 54-62% during hatch (goal was 56%, it jumped to 65% once and I actually vented it to bring it back down!). Obviously worked well for me.

So, thanks again, from me, my girls, and "Maybelline"(A.K.A. "Maybel"... looks like she's wearing eyeliner/makeup, hence the name!! Cute, huh?).

Maybelline

 

[danielnv]

This is an awesome thread to read on the day I got my first set of eggs in the mail! Since I'm in the desert and my eggs are from a humid area, I'm starting them at 50%. I put them in the incubator prior to reading that I should let them settle for several hours first, but hopefully they'll be ok. They are golden cuckoo morans, and khaki campbells--I'm sure the ducks will appreciate the higher humidity too. I'm only about 1800 ft altitude, so I'm thinking I don't need to go to 70%.

 

[BirdBrain]

Daniel,
I hope you have a second incubator as ducks hatch out 1 week after chickens.
BB

 

[jvls1942]

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So you take the chicks out and let the duck eggs go another week..
I do it like that and it works just fine..

 

[BirdBrain]

Doesn't the increased humidity mess with the hatch?

 

[jvls1942]

I keep the humidity set for the chickens and raise it on day 18 as normal.. then after the chickens hatch, I keep the humidity above 60% for the remaining time for the ducks. no problems..

 

[danielnv]

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Thanks for the info!

So I take the turner out on day 18 and hand turn the duck eggs after that? Then let chicks stay until they have all hatched or remove chicks when I'm turning duck eggs?