Incubating Welsh Harlequins

[CayugaJana]

@Shannonw1228 - now you can follow the responses to your questions a little better.

I have Welsh harliquin duck eggs in. I'm on day 18. About half of the duck eggs air cell look about day 10. I dropped humidity to 51 I can't get it lower. I started misting yesterday with Luke warm water. I'd there anything else I can do not to many days left. Should I remove some water maybe to get humidity in the 40's and if so how low should I try to get it and for how long? I would appreciate any help. Sorry to be asking in this post.[/QUOTE]

 

[Knighstar679]

@Shannonw1228 - now you can follow the responses to your questions a little better.

I have Welsh harliquin duck eggs in. I'm on day 18. About half of the duck eggs air cell look about day 10. I dropped humidity to 51 I can't get it lower. I started misting yesterday with Luke warm water. I'd there anything else I can do not to many days left. Should I remove some water maybe to get humidity in the 40's and if so how low should I try to get it and for how long? I would appreciate any help. Sorry to be asking in this post.

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Where are you at it plays a roll? I had mine down at 35- 42 %with an out side of incubator % around 50 and mine jump in size in a week on my Welsh Harlequins and I am from central New York. We had a lot of rain early this week. Going into the heatwave. I will be using lots of water.

 

[CayugaJana]

@WVduckchick ?

 

[Shannonw1228]

Where are you at it plays a roll? I had mine down at 35- 42 %with an out side of incubator % around 50 and mine jump in size in a week on my Welsh Harlequins and I am from central New York. We had a lot of rain early this week. Going into the heatwave. I will be using lots of water.[/QUOTE]
I'm on day 19. We're in Michigan but it's been very hot this past week. I have finally got humidity to 49. I'm running the water out. Most actually look like day 7. I didn't have these issues last time coup me were small bur not to this extreme. We did also have alot of cooler days though. I have air on in my house trying to keep it cool.

 

[Knighstar679]

Where are you at it plays a roll? I had mine down at 35- 42 %with an out side of incubator % around 50 and mine jump in size in a week on my Welsh Harlequins and I am from central New York. We had a lot of rain early this week. Going into the heatwave. I will be using lots of water.

I'm on day 19. We're in Michigan but it's been very hot this past week. I have finally got humidity to 49. I'm running the water out. Most actually look like day 7. I didn't have these issues last time coup me were small bur not to this extreme. We did also have alot of cooler days though. I have air on in my house trying to keep it cool.[/QUOTE]

I found adding sponges helped a lot for me.

 

[Shannonw1228]

I'm on day 19. We're in Michigan but it's been very hot this past week. I have finally got humidity to 49. I'm running the water out. Most actually look like day 7. I didn't have these issues last time coup me were small bur not to this extreme. We did also have alot of cooler days though. I have air on in my house trying to keep it cool.

I found adding sponges helped a lot for me.[/QUOTE]
I'm trying to get my humidity down is far as I can without hurting them. Only thing left would be get the water out. I didn't mist last eggs but only two were small Air cells not more then half. :/ I decided not to Mist after talking To Few people On here and you could tell they know what they are doing but I'm pretty desperate right now. They shouldn't look like day 7 on day 19. :/

 

[WVduckchick]

You need to get all the water out. Remove all the eggs and pour out the water. Syphon it out if you’d rather, but i figure it wouldn’t take more than a couple minutes to sponge it all up, dry with paper towels. It won’t hurt the eggs for a few minutes. Put them in a bath towel and cover them up. But Get the water out. If the air cells are really that small, the ducklings will drown before they hatch.

 

[Shannonw1228]

You need to get all the water out. Remove all the eggs and pour out the water. Syphon it out if you’d rather, but i figure it wouldn’t take more than a couple minutes to sponge it all up, dry with paper towels. It won’t hurt the eggs for a few minutes. Put them in a bath towel and cover them up. But Get the water out. If the air cells are really that small, the ducklings will drown before they hatch.

OK I'll Do it now they really are that small some are little bigger but still not where they should be and that's not even half. How low is to low for humidity?

 

[Shannonw1228]

You need to get all the water out. Remove all the eggs and pour out the water. Syphon it out if you’d rather, but i figure it wouldn’t take more than a couple minutes to sponge it all up, dry with paper towels. It won’t hurt the eggs for a few minutes. Put them in a bath towel and cover them up. But Get the water out. If the air cells are really that small, the ducklings will drown before they hatch.

This is already helping! Some. Are bigger about five haven't moved but it's not been that long. Hopefully by the end of today they move. Today is day 20. Humidity is about 40% Thank you all for your help. WVduckchick I appreciate all the advice you have given me. You really seem to know what your doing and have answered many of my questions. I trust any advice you give! I believe you have the same incubator as me. My humidity Guage has to be wrong after my husband put on a new humidity sensor. I think the next duck eggs I'll just run lower humidity. Thanks

 

[WVduckchick]

This is already helping! Some. Are bigger about five haven't moved but it's not been that long. Hopefully by the end of today they move. Today is day 20. Humidity is about 40% Thank you all for your help. WVduckchick I appreciate all the advice you have given me. You really seem to know what your doing and have answered many of my questions. I trust any advice you give! I believe you have the same incubator as me. My humidity Guage has to be wrong after my husband put on a new humidity sensor. I think the next duck eggs I'll just run lower humidity. Thanks

Thank you, that means a lot to me. Seriously.
I always run dry, because i live in a very humid climate. Even with no water, my incubator will still be 25-35%. What is Too low? Well, I would add a tad of water if it ever dipped below 20-25%, if the air cells were getting too large. Winter incubating, I have had to add a sponge for a few days here and there.

Also your eggs will lose more in these last few days, just naturally, so I think you still have time to get the air cells large enough to have a good hatch.