- Apr 26, 2014
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I purchased an incubator from ebay. it seems to work but I am doing something wrong. First setting was all duck eggs. I didn't realize that the settings were off that time and out of 47 I got 8 hatched. there were only 7 duds when I broke the eggs and the rest were fully formed ducks that died in their shell. they took longer to hatch because my temp was lower than I thought. So I got 2 hygrometers, one battery operated and one old fashioned type. I ran the incubator for several days in advance and got things worked out as well as figured out how to set the alarms on the incubator and calibrated it. I set 27 duck eggs and 7 days later 16 chicken eggs, none were older than one week. I planned them to hatch at the same time. The incubator ran 99-100 the entire time based on the hygrometers with 40-60 percent humidity. on day 24 of the duck eggs being in the incubator I heard chirping and there were 4 chicken eggs piping and two duck eggs were piping. I took them out of the turner, and the next morning two chicks were hatched and the ducks had their beaks out. Later that day another chick hatched, and two of the original basically stopped moving. another chick hatched last night, which would be day 26 of the ducks minus 7 for the chicks. the ducks have not progressed and do not appear to be moving any more, and two of the original chick eggs are also appearing to be dead. nothing else has pipped even.
what could be the problem? I am just so discouraged and ready to throw this incubator away.
what could be the problem? I am just so discouraged and ready to throw this incubator away.