incubating diffrent bird eggs at in the same bator???

[MissPrissy]

Some people do manage to have success with mixing fowl in the same bator but that is not the norm. If someone tells you they have had a good success but 99 other people had failures would you still be willing to risk your eggs and the hatch as a whole?

Waterfowl require much higher humidity for healthy babies to hatch. Chickens don't do well with high humidity. It causes leg deformities among other problems. High humidity can also cause some bacterieal infections in new hatch chicks.

The duck and geese eggs harbor a different bacteria that is really nasty in the incubator. Did you see the photos of my bator after a goose hatch? It looks the same after a duck hatch. Also sorts of nasty stuff can grow from those eggs. The bacteria that grows there can cause your chicken eggs to fail.

I pay alot of money for eggs I choose to hatch. I am not willing to risk either of them because someone else says they did it with success but I know through reading and research there are developmental issues with different humidity leveles for different fowl.

If you are willing to gamble on the risk of having only an okay hatch or a complete failure that is the decision you have to make.

For me the risk is too high. I am trying to build top quailty breed stock so I have much more at stake for my personal flock plans and breeding plans.

 

[PearlD]

Whew(sweating)......I totally agree....I mean.........I just want to be clear, I am not, nor was I ever attempting to encourage anyone to use my 'juggling' methods. I have 3 incubators, and sometimes a situation arises when I need to incubate different birds together. I have had really good hatches this way, and I realize it is NOT the norm, and hope I made that perfectly clear in each of my posts.

I also believe that adding turners and fans helped with my hatch rate as well. Thanks for adding the risks on this thread MissPrissy......I knew one of you guys would pounce on me and clamp my mouth......

I just wonder if the humidity in my house is sufficient, and thats why my eggs are doing so well??

 

[MissPrissy]

The humidity further down south is usually much higher.

I wasn't pouncing on you. Please don't think that.

If we tell someone we have done such n such and then someone asks can you do such n such and we say sure it worked and never tell the risks involved, if , or when, everything falls apart they come back and want to blame us for their failure.

I like everyone to be aware of the risks involved.

 

[Ace_king_brahma]

I've had successful hatches with quail and chicken eggs together. I have yet to have any luck with pheasants period.

 

[PearlD]

Bless you.....and I totally agree. I knew you weren't pouncing.....I was teasing...

I think my humidity stays around 38-40% naturally, and I rarely add water to my bators until the end. It's bizarre to me what great hatches I have had this summer......

 

[shmooborp]

coffe ! do u still have my #? if u do call me about that incubator thing.. is is a still air no turnner?

 

[gamebirdsonly]

I do it all the time. I've had turkey,quail,pheasant,duck,chukar,chicken all in at the same time.

 

[Mrs MIA]

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And what kind of hatch rates do you get? I've done chicken and quail together, but the incubating parameters are similar except for the number of days. But then, our humidity bounces all over, from 20% to 80% and back again in a single day. It's hard to keep things fairly constant.

 

[gamebirdsonly]

on fertile eggs ones that have started growing 75% hatch not the greatest but ill take it. Thats with sportsman incubator when i used to use the syrofoam not to good i woudl get about 45% hatch.

 

[coffeemama]

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No-lost your #. It's a LG still air, but if it's in a temp regulated room it works well. I have my hova turner-don't know if it fits in the LG-you could borrow it too if you promised to be extra nice to it