While I'm waiting my 8 or 6 days for hatch, I thought I'd share my notes on this trial incubation. I've always, ALWAYS had 100% fertility with my ducks, but have lost 50% of them at various stages of incubating. I've always followed the rule of have 50% humidity for the main part of incubation and bump it up to as high as it'll go for lockdown, plus misting everyday from day 10. So this time I have mix eggs that I really just stuck in for no reason other than too many to eat. I thought I'd mimick a mother duck and see how it goes. So, I put no water in the incubator (I live in a climate where there is zero humidity) instead I mist the eggs once lightly everyday. From observing my muscovies they would only have a quick wash once aday. At day 7 I had 4 blood rings and 8 growing. The 4 blood rings were first laid eggs from 8 to 10 days old, all bar one egg out of dizen had been in fridge. At day 18 the 8 growing eggs are still growing. I don't take the eggs out of turner to candle I just do a quick flash of the light through air bubble. Today on day 21 I have put alittle water in channel to mimick mother duck bathing twice a day in lead up to hatch. On day 23 I will fill one channel completely, remove eggs from turner and leave them be. This will mimick mother duck bathing 3 times aday, and allow for any early hatchers, which seem to happen to me when I don't take turner out early
