Incubation progress of Muscovy eggs

[AnimalQuackers]

Sounds like eight I wants to join the fun, he doesn't want to be shoved in that tiny shell.. Lol

Mark made his safe hole bigger - 8 wants out! Peeping like mad and looks good inside!

 

[Lacrystol]

Four days before hatching day you can stop turning them, keep smaller end lower, they do not get locked down, they stay in the processing bator, then three days before hatching day is when you lock them down raise that humidity..

Apparently in this case we have a major sticky issue, so raising the humidity could cause them to drown.,, losing all of them, we want to try and get rid of some of the moist not give them more, they already have to much...

Temps are different from a still air incubator come pair to a forced air...

 

[Lacrystol]

Mark made his safe hole bigger - 8 wants out!  Peeping like mad and looks good inside!

Open him up, HOW MANY EGGS WERE IN THIS BATOR, when you first started, don't count the ones that you have added..

 

[Lacrystol]

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No - he was positioned correctly - but instead of his HEAD facing up, just his head was facing down - his beak was not in the air sac.  So just his head was facing down...Does that make

I figured something else was going on with him..

 

[Lacrystol]

I can't remember how many eggs were in there from the beginning, I need this info because this will tell me which bator is having the to much moisture problem.. Our sticky issue..

 

[AnimalQuackers]

"Eggs should be transferred to hatching machines approximately 3 days prior to hatch (this can be done anytime after 24 days if desired). Recommended settings during hatch are 98.5oF (37oC) temperature and a wet-bulb temperature of 88oF (31oC; equivalent to 66% relative humidity). Eggs should not be turned in the hatchers. Hatchers should be cleaned and disinfected after each hatch. Setters can be cleaned less frequently but should still be cleaned on a regular basis."

Lol, I didn't write it!

-Kathy

Based on the fact that I had the eggs set at 99.5 BEFORE lockdown, Lori suggested I give the eggs longer to hatch - in other words, 38 days instead of the suggested max of 37...so we have been drilling the safe hole at day 37...and getting them out by 38. If I had done this right to start with, we'd be at the suggested dates!

 

[AnimalQuackers]

Can someone please tell me what the hard, dried blood lump on Skippy's bottom is? I do not see the string...but what is this and how worried should I be, if at all? She does not seem to by bothered by it at all. I am currently holding Skippy in my left hand on my chest, with a warm, damp cotton ball on the lump.....

 

[Lacrystol]

Can someone please tell me what the hard, dried blood lump on Skippy's bottom is? I do not see the string...but what is this and how worried should I be, if at all? She does not seem to by bothered by it at all. I am currently holding Skippy in my left hand on my chest, with a warm, damp cotton ball on the lump.....

It will fall off no need to worry about it, as long as she is walking and doing her duck thing, don't stress

 

[casportpony]

Can someone please tell me what the hard, dried blood lump on Skippy's bottom is? I do not see the string...but what is this and how worried should I be, if at all? She does not seem to by bothered by it at all. I am currently holding Skippy in my left hand on my chest, with a warm, damp cotton ball on the lump.....

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

 

[AnimalQuackers]

I can't remember how many eggs were in there from the beginning, I need this info because this will tell me which bator is having the to much moisture problem.. Our sticky issue..

I had all the eggs in one incubator at first - I put 4-15 in one day at a time, as they were laid, daily. Then, I kept A-I OUT until I was sure Zippy was finished laying, and when she didn't sit on them, put them all in the SAME incubator with 4-15 on the same day. So, in that incubator, we had 19 in the same incubator at different stages of development.

Then, was it last Wednesday? - we went and got the second bator and initially put 4-8 (I am pretty certain that is correct) in one incubator and called that LOCKDOWN and left everyone else in the lower humidity incubator. We moved one egg daily into the LOCKDOWN bator, as each egg reached day 37...

Is that what you are asking?