75% is high for ducks, let alone chickens. I had my first batch of ducks at 60% and had I not checked air cells a week before lockdown, they would've drowned because hey hadn't lost enough water. 40% will be fine for ducks as well. I'd just monitor air cells and stop adding water as opposed to removing water so the humidity drops naturally
75% is high for ducks, let alone chickens. I had my first batch of ducks at 60% and had I not checked air cells a week before lockdown, they would've drowned because hey hadn't lost enough water. 40% will be fine for ducks as well. I'd just monitor air cells and stop adding water as opposed to removing water so the humidity drops naturally
I read an article on Muscovy egg incubation that says that number is meant as a wet bulb sort of thing and translates to 50ish% which the person said was high regardless, that 30-35% ("dry" incubatiob) was perfectly fine for ducks as long as air cells were monitored. So if you have good results at 40% then I'd say that's a safe number
today is hatch day! of 16, so far 14 have hatched.
2 more have pips, but they pipped late, so I'm giving them more time and leaving them in the incubator
here are some of the babies!
putting 16 more in the incubator today
I officially have a quail egg pip from the one who was rocking when I put them in the hatcher for lockdown. Two days early yet again. We shall see what happens
It very well could be, but then a pip can take 4 days to turn into a zip, so we shall see what happens.
