Looking for a list of Temp,Humidity, And Incubation period for most bird species.

[guineafowlguy]

I got an cabinet incubator that holds 150 eggs and such.

Ever since i bought it it has been full of chicken eggs.

Soon other birds are going to be laying. But not enough for me to fill up the bator. So i will have to hatch them along side with my chickens. I was wanting to know what birds i could do that with.



I know i can do it with turkeys and guinea's. Hopefully my turkey hen starts laying soon.

I need some more lurkeys



What about ducks geese peacocks and others?

Is there an online list of all birds and specs of how to hatch them?

Thanks

 

[guineafowlguy]

Oops I forgot a question.

And what months do the birds typical lay.

Thanks

 

[tec27]

http://www.clemson.edu/psapublishing/pages/ADVS/EC530.PDF

 

[guineafowlguy]

That was almost perfect

Gave me days, temps, stop turning days.

Although i don't know that i agree with the humidity's.

It said 85 humidity for chicks. Isn't that a little high? I incubate my chicks at 50 humidity.

it said humidity (wet bulb) So that must be different than humidity %.

Ill have to look it up.

Thanks that will help a lot though

 

[maryhysong]

That was almost perfect

Gave me days, temps, stop turning days.

Although i don't know that i agree with the humidity's.

It said 85 humidity for chicks. Isn't that a little high? I incubate my chicks at 50 humidity.

it said humidity (wet bulb) So that must be different than humidity %.

Ill have to look it up.

Thanks that will help a lot though

there are two kinds of humidity readings; wet bulb and relative. You can actually use a regular mercury thermometer and make a wet bulb; takes a container of water and a wick which you wrap around the tip of the thermometer. As the water evaporates it cools the wick just a bit so you get a different reading between wet bulb (humidity) and dry bulb (temperature). Lots of old hatching instructions give humidity as a wet bulb measurement.

The other measure is relative humidity. That is the % we are used to seeing on the weather forecast and such. That is the reading you get with the new digital hygrometers too. I know there's a way to calculate relative from wetbulb, but I don't know what it is.

 

[cmfarm]

If you do a search you should be able to find a chart that will tell you the difference. But really all the humiditys seemed about the same, so I would just do what you do for the chicken eggs.