Incubating Duck eggs with Chicken eggs?

[theOEGBman]

Well,

Since most duck eggs take a week longer than chickens, why not add the chicken eggs when the duck eggs are on day 7? It might be worth a try. I've never done it before, but who knows??

 

[OthalaAcres]

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I do that all the time with my chicken and turkey eggs, and everyone hatches out fine. I add chicken eggs to the incubator at day 7 of the turkey eggs, and everyone shows up around the same time.

I haven't tried duck eggs tho, since they usually require a higher humidity level than chicken eggs.

~Lily Branga
Othala Acres
Troy, NH

 

[greyfields]

I hatch chicken, duck and goose eggs all simultaneously. I think the only thing that suffers are the goose eggs as I'm still getting less than a 50% hatch rate. Chickens and ducks don't seem bothered by the extra humidity.

 

[antheat]

Goose eggs need a cool-down period of at least 30 minutes to an hour, daily.

Anthea

 

[billson1]

i hatch duck and chicken eggs together all the time and never have any problems you just need to make sure the eggs are disinfected plus i have a incubater and a hatcher so the number of days dont matter as the humidity are the same anyway

 

[WisconsinChick]

Just make shure its not the other way around! If a duck is the mom then the baby chickens will follow her into the water and die.

 

[vebyrd36]

Hello everyone, so excited my Hubby just gave me my first incubator. I was saying this morning my Cayugas, and geese seem to have forgotten it is cold outside and cont. to mate and lay very nice eggs. So I'm going to try this incubator to hatch them. I'm use to using brood hens for this, so this will be new to me. The incubator is forced air with a egg turner in it. So will I have to have two diffrent hatching batchs or can I do it in one. I'm going to move the mating pairs to a barn with heat so they can let nature take it's cross with future eggs. Any info. is welcomed, thanks for the help.

 

[ChickN'ChaseR]

I put my Khaki Campbell eggs in the incubator yesterday with an estimated Hatch Date of Nov. 25. Next Friday, the 4th I will add the Chicken eggs that I get from the Rooster Pen. (Rooster Pen is where I keep the Bad Boys, when I want fertile eggs I add Hens.

I don't know how well this will work, as I have had zero luck with ducks so far, and have not tried ducks with chickens at all. This is my second round with the incubator. I had 7 lovely chicks hatch the last (and my first) try. My hen that I adopted 4 of my babies to, lost all of them

I don't know how you lose your children permanently, but she did. The others I gave to a friend who lost her whole flock to predators. So, in my sad, chick-less condition I decided to "Add Hens" to the "Roosties Pen", And in the process I discovered a few "Hidey Holes" that my ducks have deposited their eggs in. I hve no idea how old these eggs are, some look very new, but some were in a nest with 50 other eggs, I discarded the majority and kept 19 of the best looking and least smelling

so we shall see if any hatch I guess. This is purely an experiment. Any and all advice will be considered and appreciated

 

[FarmrGirl]

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4x I incubate the eggs together without worrying about humidity at all but have a seperate hovabator to do the hatching at a higher humidity for lock down. I also brood the babies together. I just give the ducks a seperate bathtime outside of the brooder. The baby chickens love squeezing in between to hot little ducklings to stay warm - LOL!

Ducklings run HOT!

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2X OMG! YesYesYes! It may freak the chicken out the first time her ducklings get in the water but you'll be very disappointed if you let a duck hen raise up chicken babies

 

[vebyrd36]

Typically I hatch different breeds together most of the time. The only adjustment I do is run the humidity at 60% then bring it up when the chicks hatch to 70% then hold it there until the ducks have hatched.