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[sjturner79]

The incubators will not stay stable on humidity and temps with out the nebulizers going we have tryed with chicken eggs it will not work. It will not work dry we tryed these as well. Egg death. We have to also have the vaporizer on and the humidifier cool air going. It drys my partner crazy. And ac going and fan going. That's way we wanted to do it with broody ducks. I can't win. Little giants real good at staying low humidity while pro series doesn't like to stay low but jump high. In normal chicken eggs. For a year now we used little giant to turn eggs first 18 days. And pro series after that. But when we got ducks everything got mixed up. First hatch we had both going. Second one just ducks. No chicken eggs second time to see what was up.

Did you succeed well at hatching the chicken eggs by themselves?

If so then you need to go back to setting it up the same way for the ducks, make sure the eggs are collected and stored properly and try the hatch like that.

If you were getting the same sorts of trouble with the chook eggs then you have something wrong with your settings or setup.

 

[tracyjg]

We normally do the bleach or vinager bath good scrub down on bators followed by sunlight days. But I want to do more these time due to huge death rate. I want to fumigate it out. Followed by a good bath and scrub down followed by a good rinse followed by good son. Fri sat should be clear here. Hopefully by Monday we can start over.

 

[WalnutHill]

Too much humidity and vent plugs in will kill the embryos. They need to breathe.

 

[tracyjg]

There's no eggs in incubators there still with mom. We our fumigating and cleaning incubators. But it does say th fumigate dirty eggs in artical listed above. But I figured for ones out in dog house. It's way to late for those. Those or in hatching stage.

 

[Pyxis]

There's no eggs in incubators there still with mom. We our fumigating and cleaning incubators. But it does say th fumigate dirty eggs in artical listed above. But I figured for ones out in dog house. It's way to late for those. Those or in hatching stage.

This might be a silly question but the mom is actually broody right? She's not just laying on them part of the time?

 

[tracyjg]

She gets up to eat and swim and talk to male but most of the time both girls or broody.

 

[WalnutHill]

Fumigation of eggs for hatching requires controlled formalin concentrations. That's highly toxic and not something for you to try at home. Best is just to collect clean eggs for incubation, and don't wash them. I've hatched dozens of eggs with a bit of manure on them, I brush off most of it when dry with coarse steel wool. Don't scrub, just try to buff it off a bit. If they are really gross and muddy, then the bacteria have probably already breached the shell and membrane.

 

[tracyjg]

It doesn't kill what is in the incubator. And I need to kill what is in the nest with my females ducks. Something is wrong causing the problem I need to fix it.

 

[tracyjg]

What setting did you have your heating pad on low medium high. I put it down laid the towel over it put the nesting box on top of that. I didn't want duck to eat the cord. I still hope they don't eat the cord coming up out of dog house up to the extension cord. The heat lamp only hit snowflakes eggs. Not hopes eggs so I gave hope my heating pad. It's on low. We lost another egg not developed at all.

 

[fishnet1971]

just checking in on my favorite hatchers! my 2 new flocks are doing great thanks to you all. I hope everyone is doing great! thanks again.