Incubation progress of Muscovy eggs

[AnimalQuackers]

Leave the lump alone! It should fall off, but if you get it wet or try to remove it all of the yolk could leak out or she could get an infection.

-Kathy

GOT IT!! What is it? Part of the cord?

P.S. - And I didn't mean that "GOT IT" as yelling. I meant, "OK, will do."

 

[Lacrystol]

When you got the second bator how many eggs did you put in there for lockdown?? Do you remember..

 

[AnimalQuackers]

When you got the second bator how many eggs did you put in there for lockdown?? Do you remember..

I think it was 5...#4-8. Remember though - I have had trouble keeping the humidity stable - much less RIGHT - since the day we got the second incubator!

 

[Lacrystol]

Ok so egg nine will tell us if we still have a sticky issue, if we do, then I need you to check the first bator, it's having a humidity problem causing to much moist causing them to be sticky.

If nine does not look sticky and looks dry then the problem was when the humidity hit 80 to 85. So number nine will tell us if we need to make adjustments to the lock down bator, then and only then will want to make adjustments, so keep your humidity where it is until we can figure out which bator is causing them to get sticky..

This is why I wanted you to keep the humidity kind of low for the lockdown bator. In normal situations you should not have the lock down bators humidity set at 50 or 55 it should be at 65 to 70, but in our case we do not want to do that because of the sticky problem we are running into right now.

By keeping the lock down bators humidity low they should not get sticky. So number nine is going to be our problem solver, that poor little guy, he's got a lot of stress on his hands and he doesn't even know it..

 

[Lacrystol]

Ok let's check on mr antsy, number 7

 

[Lacrystol]

Did everyone get where I was going with trying to find out which bator is causing the sticky problem.

 

[Lacrystol]

See number nine was not in the bator when the humidity went hay wires and hit 80 to 85, so if he is sticky then it's the first bator and if that's the case whatever the humidity is at in the first bator we want to decrease it..

 

[Lacrystol]

We are soooo close to solving your problem and getting these guys on the right track to where they aren't going to need to be assisted..

 

[Lacrystol]

How's our antsy duck??

 

[AnimalQuackers]

Ok so egg nine will tell us if we still have a sticky issue, if we do, then I need you to check the first bator, it's having a humidity problem causing to much moist causing them to be sticky.

If nine does not look sticky and looks dry then the problem was when the humidity hit 80 to 85. So number nine will tell us if we need to make adjustments to the lock down bator, then and only then will want to make adjustments, so keep your humidity where it is until we can figure out which bator is causing them to get sticky..

This is why I wanted you to keep the humidity kind of low for the lockdown bator. In normal situations you should not have the lock down bators humidity set at 50 or 55 it should be at 65 to 70, but in our case we do not want to do that because of the sticky problem we are running into right now.

By keeping the lock down bators humidity low they should not get sticky. So number nine is going to be our problem solver, that poor little guy, he's got a lot of stress on his hands and he doesn't even know it..

The problem is keeping the humidity stable. It's been as low as 40, and higher than 80, all in a week! And it's not always my doing. It can be happy at 60, then I look at it an hour later and it's 40. So, then I wet a sponge and put it in and go back in an hour and it's 80! I really think that is a huge part of the problem.