Incubating Duck & chicken eggs together????

[aurorarose25]

Can you incubate duck and chicken eggs together? I want to try to hatch some ducks, but I have some chicken eggs coming in the mail. I don't have a full bator right now and thought to put in maybe 6 duck eggs.
Will this be ok or not?
I have a hovabator 1602N with turner..
Please let me know...

 

[HenPen]

Yes, you can do both...I put 6 duck eggs in and a week later when my chicken eggs came in I added them and all hatched around the same time so the humidity increase didn't hurt any of them....Try to start the duck eggs a week earlier because Ducks need 28 days but can take as long as 35 and chickens only need 21...Good Luck!!

 

[shelleyd2008]

Most duck eggs take from 26 to 28 days, muscovies take 35 days. I've incubated them together before, and the 'higher' humidity for the ducks (usually about 50%) doesn't seem to affect the chickens.

 

[FluffyColor]

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.............................And can take up to 25.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

The only issue I had was that the ducks really kicked the chicken eggs around after they hatched. They are fairly large. I am not sure if I would have had a better hatch without their help.