incubating a egg in a plastic bottle

[hickok55]

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.

 

[Battlepants]

After a quick scan through the video, they are:
Not maintaining temperature
Not maintaining moisture
Not providing airflow (airholes on one side will not provide airflow, you need in AND out)

They either got extremely lucky, or they stuffed some poor duckling into a glass cup for a video.

Also, having to effectively disassemble your entire incubator 3 times a day seems like a lot of work.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

It probably isn't *impossible* but if you wanted to DIY an incubator there are a lot better ways to go about it. Even under the best circumstances when incubating things can go wrong.
Worst case scenario you wind up with a blinky.

Spoiler: Blinky

 

[GraceSelah]

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

Keep plastic away from animals at every turn regardless. It is toxic to us as well as to them. We are not made to have plastic infused into our systems. God made us and the animal world to live according to the nature He made. Not man made loaded with chemicals. This goes for our health and the animals as well with food natural medicines, etc. Go as natural as possible and you will reap blessings. There will still be some fallout, but not nearly as many as the lab experiments suffer.

 

[629864]

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.
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Do you remember the brand/name of that one?