Nov. Egg Swap....Closed....

[Barnyard]

They will be fine in there with the chicken eggs. That is what I do when I hatch them. Duck and goose do have to have a higher humidity than chickens so you do not want to put them in there.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Ok, so I should put these buttons in the bator with the chicken eggs, and use the other bator for the duck and goose eggs? I might have to do some switching around though. The turner that the buttons I have now are in is one of the older ones, that has the metal racks with the individual cups for the egg holders. I can't take turners out for that, but might not need to. I might could rig it someway to hold the goose eggs too? Ooo! Sounds like a project!

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

What temp and humidity do you have it for the other eggs?

 

[Barnyard]

The last time I hatched button's I put the eggs in a egg carton. I cut the top off and just set it on the turner. It did not move at all, well except for when the turner moved it, lol!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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The chicken egg bator is about 99-100 forced air with about 45-50% humidity, and the one the buttons from Tori is in runs about 100 still air, with around 45-50% humidity also. I have heard the buttons need slightly lower temps, so that's why they aren't the 'recommended' 101.5

My eggs have been having trouble with being dry though, that's why I have the humidity up higher than I normally would.

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

You should be fine then. I've hatched buttons at 102 still air. I have some due to hatch tomorrow and have lowered the temp to 100 so hopefully I'll see an improvement, but for a few days, you should be fine.

 

[Barnyard]

I use the same temp and humidity with my button's as I do my chicken's. That seems to work for me. I use a hovabator forced air and normally run mine 99.5-100.5, give or take a little.

 

[shelleyd2008]

I did that with the first ones I got from marie_martin, and I only got 1 chick out of 20 eggs. But I was using dry incubation as well. I only had 3 that made it to pip, and 2 of those died in the shell. Do you use dry or normal hatching for your's Tiff?

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

I've found buttons need higher humidity all throughout the incubation period than chickens do because their shells are so thin. My SIL never even measures her humidity when she hatches buttons - she just keeps all the wells filled the entire time and has great hatches. I haven't been quite that daring.

 

[shelleyd2008]

So what humidity do you use? A friend of mine, chiknmama, has offered to incubate some of my eggs, be it chicken or quail, and I was thinking of taking the chicken eggs over to her. Not sure how to do that, since they have already been incubated for 6 or 7 days.