Incubating duck eggs

[ducklings5405]

Hi, I am a first time duck hatcher and am having some issues with my incubator. I am using a very cheap "mini intelligent 7 egg incubator." It has a monitor for temperature but not for humidity so I can't tell if the humidity is ok. I filled the water pan before use and after about an hour I noticed that roughly 80% of the lid has steamed up with condensation. I don't know if this is normal or bad. I also don't know how to reduce the condensation. The incubator came with 1 small hole at the top but maybe it needs more holes? Please help.

 

[Kiki]

How did this hatch turn out?

 

[ducklings5405]

How did this hatch turn out?

They all died prematurely with blood ringsbut thankfully my new set of eggs are all alive

 

[Maiahr]

Is your incubator the round one with yellow? There is really no way to measure the humidity in that one. I put an extra humidity meter in it. Are you hatching duck eggs again?

 

[ducklings5405]

Is your incubator the round one with yellow? There is really no way to measure the humidity in that one. I put an extra humidity meter in it. Are you hatching duck eggs again?

Yeah these ones failed. I have a new set of eggs now in a mini eco II Brinsea incubator and it’s going much better

 

[Maiahr]

Well, we managed to set our duck yesterday to sit on her 12 eggs, so no need to put them in the incubator.