Humidity Obsessed

[ozexpat]

Hey everyone. I have 1 Muscovy duck egg that I rescued because a raccoon got to all of them and the mama. I built a make shift incubator out of a Styrofoam cooler, heat lamp etc. ( Its what I had the night it happened) Happy to say ( and shocked because I have NEVER done this) that 30 days later the little guy has internally pipped, and we can hear him peeping away. So I know its close to hatch time. I am concerned about the humidity. I have read that during lock down it is really important but I am having a hard time keeping it high. Any suggestions??

Thank you

i was out of town, sorry

wet sponges will help get it higher.

how did the hatch go?

 

[NewDucksMama]

Unfortunately we lost him. ;( he was peeping in the shell. We could hear him. The next day there was no more movement, peeping nothing. After 24 hours of silence we candled him. He was dead. We slowly opened the shell and he was beautiful and completely formed. We don't know what went wrong. ;(

 

[ozexpat]

Unfortunately we lost him. ;( he was peeping in the shell. We could hear him. The next day there was no more movement, peeping nothing. After 24 hours of silence we candled him. He was dead. We slowly opened the shell and he was beautiful and completely formed. We don't know what went wrong. ;(

sorry to hear that

I feel your pain