My duck eggs hatching early!?!? Did I do something wrong?

[Lacrystol]

Lol! Not fighting it! The second batch got started a week and a half after my less than successful first ever batch. My girls started laying again so in 7 days, I am going to be putting a new batch in incubator #1! Also a friend of ours has quail, I am gonna try to hatch him out a batch of quail too... Yes, I have the disease!! I think I need a third incubator! Lol

OH BOY, your disease sounds like it's advancing very quickly to CHED. (can't hatch enough disease)

 

[Lacrystol]

He was PTS this morning

I'm heartbroken. His hip joint hadn't formed correctly and there was nothing she could do to correct it.

AWWWW the poor thing..

 

[Lacrystol]

As far as I know, she made it sound like the Muscovys are in their own pen, and the other birds free range. The others tend to sneak in and out of the Muscovy pen and will lay their eggs all over. I suppose that cross breeding with them could happen, but I really don't know. I guess we will see when hatch time comes!

I will start misting them. I can't seem to get the humidity to go back down too much. Not sure why, there isn't any water in there at all....Nevermind, scratch that, I just looked and the humidity is back down to 35%.

Here's another tricky question, I have chicken eggs going in there with the ducks. (My sweet husband thought he was being such a good helper last week, putting eggs in the incubator, he didn't know that I was needing the incubator in a week for my duck eggs to start!) So, I have some chicken eggs that are on day 12 along with my duck eggs that are on day 6 now. If I mist the duck eggs, should I remove them from the bator to do that and then put them back? Or do it in the bator and cover the chicken eggs?

Thank you everyone for all the suggestions and warm welcome!

Mist only the duck eggs, what I do is put the chicken eggs on one side and ducks on the other. I hope you have a second bator??

 

[Bsranch3]

OH BOY, your disease sounds like it's advancing very quickly to CHED. (can't hatch enough disease)

Oh goodness! Have they found a cure?

 

[Teacherchick18]

Mist only the duck eggs, what I do is put the chicken eggs on one side and ducks on the other. I hope you have a second bator??

Yes, yes! I do have an extra bator (3 in fact! But don't tell the hubby!) that I will use to put the eggs in for lock down.

 

[WVduckchick]

Yes, yes! I do have an extra bator (3 in fact! But don't tell the hubby!) that I will use to put the eggs in for lock down.

Oh that's fabulous!!

 

[dawnh]

A Splat of ducklings These guys are helping to take my mind off this morning.

 

[Kaessa]

A Splat of ducklings

These guys are helping to take my mind off this morning.

SO CUTE

 

[Bsranch3]

A Splat of ducklings These guys are helping to take my mind off this morning.

Adorable! My babies are currently a mess! Gotta clean the brooder and maybe let them splash around in some water for a minute

 

[Lacrystol]

Oh goodness! Have they found a cure?

noo no shot can do it, no pill, your just out of luck, the only thing that will help get it under control is MORE HATCHINGS.. LOL