Incubation progress of Muscovy eggs

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Miss Lydia said:
I was thinking that baby looked wet but wasn't sure if it was the lighting. AQ I'm thinking when all said and done your going to have some ducks who will do your hatching after this. Did I miss it are all the last ones dead? the ones that were with 12? Sorry if I did I was out putting everyone to bed.
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Hi Lydia, I don't see any movement in 12, 13 or 14. 11 died in shell today. I will put 15 in lockdown tomorrow, and then we have to wait a few days because the next "batch" of eggs (A-I) I set all at once!
 
casportpony said:
I have 12 scovy eggs in the bator now, so we'll see if I have better luck this time. These were started by a hen and she left her nest. I really should have weighed these, but I kept putting it off, lol, now it's too late.

Comments and/or suggestions for Muscovy eggs in an RCOM bator are more than welcome!



-Kathy
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OH! I am so excited! Can't wait to follow their development!
 
casportpony said:
There is a black quotation bubble in the tool bar, third to the right of the smiley button. I load the pictures first, then place the "spoiler", copy and paste the pictures into the spoiler, then delete the duplicate pictures. If you can't do it on your end, just PM them to me and I'll do it for you.

-Kathy
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OMG I think I need some sleep! I thought you were asking "in general". Lol
 
AnimalQuackers said:
Thank you, Bob.  I knew this - I believe I read it early on in this thread, from you!  Aren't the eggs supposed to lose 2% of their weight every two weeks?  I know I read that somewhere, and I knew it!  In fact, when I first collected the eggs and started putting them in the bator, I WAS weighing them (we have a gram scale).  I did it for a while, then stopped.  Clearly, it is important enough that I should have NEVER stopped!

Am I right that the goal is for the eggs to lose 2% of their weight every 2 weeks?

Michelle
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I've never weighed my eggs...
 
charlindabob said:
If you have fully formed chicks (ducklings) and they die in the shell, it would be reasonable to pin the problem on humidity.  I would suggest that you purchase a small food scale that weighs in grams and weigh your eggs and mark them with pencil when you first put them in the incubator.  The chick must lose weight while being incubated or else the chick cannot rotate inside the shell.  Humidity controls the growth within the shell.  Too much humidity and the chick swells up in the shell making it hard to pip and impossible to rotate.  You should weigh the eggs weekly and judge the humidity requirements by weight.  If you are experienced, you may be able to judge by the air sac development, but a scale has no guess work and they cost under $20 at Walmart I believe.

Now there are other aspects that are just as important as humidity, but humidity is often over looked or is guess work at best.  You know humidity is important when you have full term deaths in the shell.

Bob
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I disagree and agree with some of this..
 
casportpony said:
I have 12 scovy eggs in the bator now, so we'll see if I have better luck this time. These were started by a hen and she left her nest. I really should have weighed these, but I kept putting it off, lol, now it's too late. Comments and/or suggestions for Muscovy eggs in an RCOM bator are more than welcome! -Kathy
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When did you out these in today??
 

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