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
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.
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.
