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[MissPrissy]

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Hmmmmm....I was planning to incubate with turkey eggs.

Waterfowl need very different incubation conditions than land fowl.

Also, goose and duck eggs can often grow bacteria that are fatal to the other eggs.

It is not a good idea to try to incubate them together.

Goose eggs need 65 - 75 % humidity, a daily cooling down period and sprinkling of the eggs with warm water every day after day 4. 3 days before hatch boost the humidity to 85% and wait.

Turkey and chicken eggs 45% humidity and 3 days before hatch 65% humidity.

The conditions for the goose eggs are not good for the turkey eggs and vice versa.

Have you ever seen an incubator after a waterfowl hatch?

Waterfowl are a nasty wet hatch. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=62755

You incubator is going to need an extra deep cleaning and sterilizing when it is over.

 

[chickintexas]

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Opinions here???

Is it still air? How long do you think the spike lasted? I'm also assuming that you're using a digital thermometer? I don't trust the digital sort anymore. They will register odd swings, imo. I don't trust them as far as I can throw them. Plus, an alcohol thermometer is going to register more true than a digital one. The internal temps of an egg are not going to share the same swings as a digital thermometer does.

 

[mrbstephens]

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Opinions here???

Is it still air? How long do you think the spike lasted? I'm also assuming that you're using a digital thermometer? I don't trust the digital sort anymore. They will register odd swings, imo. I don't trust them as far as I can throw them. Plus, an alcohol thermometer is going to register more true than a digital one. The internal temps of an egg are not going to share the same swings as a digital thermometer does.

Not a still air. It's a homemade bator with a pc fan. Yes, digital thermometer. I think the spike was about 12 hours. Is 102.4 dangerously too high?

 

[mrbstephens]

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Opinions here???

Is it still air? How long do you think the spike lasted? I'm also assuming that you're using a digital thermometer? I don't trust the digital sort anymore. They will register odd swings, imo. I don't trust them as far as I can throw them. Plus, an alcohol thermometer is going to register more true than a digital one. The internal temps of an egg are not going to share the same swings as a digital thermometer does.

Whoops, sorry. Double post.

 

[chickintexas]

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Is it still air? How long do you think the spike lasted? I'm also assuming that you're using a digital thermometer? I don't trust the digital sort anymore. They will register odd swings, imo. I don't trust them as far as I can throw them. Plus, an alcohol thermometer is going to register more true than a digital one. The internal temps of an egg are not going to share the same swings as a digital thermometer does.

Whoops, sorry. Double post.

You're pushing the danger zone with that spike. Did you candle the eggs today? Did you see any activity? If so, then I personally wouldn't worry about it. But that's me. You have no idea how much weight fell off my shoulders once I started using alcohol or dial thermometers! If you're going to have a swing, then lower is better than higher. Candle the eggs. See what you can see which should be a lot at day 16. I'm on day 10/8/6 (depending on which batch

) and I see tons of movement. If you still see them dancing then they should be okay. I'm not a hatching expert by no means but going by what I've learned so far, what I've told you sounds about right. Just trying to help a fellow hatcher.

 

[jlgoinggreen]

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Hmmmmm....I was planning to incubate with turkey eggs.

Waterfowl need very different incubation conditions than land fowl.

Also, goose and duck eggs can often grow bacteria that are fatal to the other eggs.

It is not a good idea to try to incubate them together.

Goose eggs need 65 - 75 % humidity, a daily cooling down period and sprinkling of the eggs with warm water every day after day 4. 3 days before hatch boost the humidity to 85% and wait.

Turkey and chicken eggs 45% humidity and 3 days before hatch 65% humidity.

The conditions for the goose eggs are not good for the turkey eggs and vice versa.

Have you ever seen an incubator after a waterfowl hatch?

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h14/Angie_HomeGrown/bator2-1.jpg

Waterfowl are a nasty wet hatch. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=62755

You incubator is going to need an extra deep cleaning and sterilizing when it is over.

Thank you for this. If I don't have enough room to give them their own incubator, I will just give them away and plan more carefully next time. I am going to pm you about something else.

 

[Peep_Show]

I just did my Day 10 candling and had to jettison two (one clear, one blood ring). I've got 23 eggs left out of the original 35 shipped**, but a half a dozen have kind of funky shaped (detached?) air cells or look questionable. My humidity has been a little low (desert hazard). All have little dancing guys or movement in there, though. (Thank you Cool-Lite candler for making that read REALLY easy!)

Will candle again at 14 days to jettison quitters, make sure the air cell stuff isn't an issue and things are still on track.


** 35 received from USPS.
6 broken/DOA

3 oops (operator error)

3 clear

9 SLW's and 14 Black and Red Star sex-links (1 SLW & 5 BSL/RSL w/weirdness)

 

[mayberrygirl]

Ahh - Lock down in bator #1 - candled them & 3 moving good 1 didn't move, sleeping I hope... freaking out here. Good thing I am candling the other bator this weekend to keep me occupied so I don't want to grab out the chicks one by one to snuggle, LOL.

 

[write2caroline]

My Dot is still sitting and eggs due to hatch on May 11 and 12th respectively. I tried to candle two of the eggs my neighbor gave me but they sort of looked like duds on May 1 but I left them under Dot.

I have a watering tube with nib for her and sometimes she drinks and I have been giving her berries as I find ripe ones (black or logan maybe) she loves them. I have not seen her voluntarily get off the nest but I am working so I just may not be seeing her. I try to be sure she has water and food. The only time I see her even look at food is when I sit with her and she comes out of broody trance for a berry. Today I added some clover and some crumbles and she ate them so I think she was hungry. Meanwhile my other three girls have not layed any new eggs so either they are going broody, laying somewhere I don't know about or I have a creature eating their eggs that they lay in the nest box in the run. ( My neighbor found a 5 foot rat snake in her nest box. I understand that the rat snakes eat the cotton mouths and other bad snakes so I prefer not to kill them but I am not sure where my neighbor set him free or if he dispatched him.

I like for Dot to be comfortable and calm. Andy built her a little coop for when she has the babies. I am a little fearful of moving her before hatch day but I may have to and the new Broody coop is really really nice so I want to move her before she becomes Momma Bear!
Caroline

 

[mrbstephens]

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Whoops, sorry. Double post.

You're pushing the danger zone with that spike. Did you candle the eggs today? Did you see any activity? If so, then I personally wouldn't worry about it. But that's me. You have no idea how much weight fell off my shoulders once I started using alcohol or dial thermometers! If you're going to have a swing, then lower is better than higher. Candle the eggs. See what you can see which should be a lot at day 16. I'm on day 10/8/6 (depending on which batch

) and I see tons of movement. If you still see them dancing then they should be okay. I'm not a hatching expert by no means but going by what I've learned so far, what I've told you sounds about right. Just trying to help a fellow hatcher.

Tomorrow is lockdown and I'll candle 1 more time then.