I've never had a good hatch with my duck or goose eggs, chickens I can hatch all day long and get 99%
I have several incubators, everything from the styro box, to homemade contraptions, to $400, fully automatic-turner, mister.
Tonight I was looking at something else totally unrelated and I came across this:
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/eggs/res19-opincubator.html
If I'm understanding it right waterfowl are set at 95 summer and 94 winter according to them, much lower than the 99.5 that I was shooting for.
And.... they are talking about still-air, which I always thought was suppose to be a degree or two higher ie...101.5
Has anybody ever set duck eggs at a lower temp?
I have them coming out of my ears right now, so I might try an experiment, but I hate to take an incubator out of service if its bound to fail.....
I have several incubators, everything from the styro box, to homemade contraptions, to $400, fully automatic-turner, mister.
Tonight I was looking at something else totally unrelated and I came across this:
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/eggs/res19-opincubator.html
If I'm understanding it right waterfowl are set at 95 summer and 94 winter according to them, much lower than the 99.5 that I was shooting for.
And.... they are talking about still-air, which I always thought was suppose to be a degree or two higher ie...101.5
Has anybody ever set duck eggs at a lower temp?
I have them coming out of my ears right now, so I might try an experiment, but I hate to take an incubator out of service if its bound to fail.....
