incubating a egg in a plastic bottle

[hickok55]

is it possible to incubate a duck egg inside a plastic bottle

 

[OhZark Biddies]

is it possible to incubate a duck egg inside a plastic bottle

With enough money and time anything is possible…

But why?

Incubation isn’t a game…

fool around and you’ll find out that Mother Nature will give you all kinds of little birth-defective hatchlings to deal with if you goof around with silly what if notions…

Even some store bought incubators produce a lot of defective chicks because of inconsistency…

So again, why are you looking to incubate a duckling in a plastic bottle?

 

[Jada22]

Why? I’m not sure if it would actually be possible, there would be little ventilation, how would you get humidity correct? And heat? I think most heaters would melt the bottle, when plastic bottles get heated they can give off toxic substances, even if they show no signs of being heated too much. Not sure what damage that would do to the chick.

 

[The Moonshiner]

If you have a way to get the temp, humidity and ventilation right I'd think it could be possible.
My first incubator was one of these and I did have a successful hatch.
It's d@mn near a plastic bottle.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Here i am, wondering how you would even get it in the bottle

 

[Battlepants]

Here i am, wondering how you would even get it in the bottle

My assumption is that this would be more like a bottle cut in half. But yea, I would need to see some schematics to see if this is viable. Also going to need an answer to the "why?" side of things and perhaps a better path could be found.

 

[NatJ]

is it possible to incubate a duck egg inside a plastic bottle

Incubating an egg needs the right temperature, the right humidity and ventilation, and the right amount of turning.

If you can provide all of those inside a plastic bottle, then yes you could incubate an egg that way.

I've seen accounts of many kinds of containers being used to make incubators (foam ice chest, old refrigerator, plastic storage bin, glass aquarium, wood box, cardboard box, etc.) Some of them are much easier to work with than others. I expect a plastic bottle would not be very convenient, but could be made to work if you got all the other details right. With all of them, the difficulty is in getting the details right: temperature, humidity, ventilation, turning, and having viable eggs to put in them.

 

[hickok55]

Here i am, wondering how you would even get it in the bottle

from what i've seen on youtube you cut the bottle in half and put the egg on a plate with hay and put the half bottle with holes in it on top of the egg out side in a sunny area but not to sunny.

 

[Battlepants]

from what i've seen on youtube you cut the bottle in half and put the egg on a plate with hay and put the half bottle with holes in it on top of the egg

Could you link the youtube video? In my experience a lot of these DIY channels can be extremely poor quality.

Edit: adding a qualifier - Many DIY channels seem to follow the "challenge" method of turning something mundane into something useful. This often comes at the cost of being worse quality, more expensive or even an outright lie. They may be a decent channel with decent suggestions, but from the outside, this feels like one of those "turn toothpaste into gold with this easy trick!" kind of channels.

 

[NatJ]

put the half bottle with holes in it on top of the egg out side in a sunny area but not to sunny.

You might have trouble with the egg getting too hot in the daytime, and it will almost certainly get too cold at night.

I cannot think of any climate where the day AND night temperatures would make this possible

I suppose someone might carry it around to different places for different parts of the day and night, according to what temperature each spot is, but that would be a lot of bother, and I still don't think it would work very well.