The Un-Official Duck Incubation Thread

[chickboss]

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Wow! That is a pretty spiffy bator! Big. Can I ask what they run price wise? I didn't want to give all my info to find out.

 

[yotetrapper]

I dont know? My husband bought me mine used. $600.

 

[chickboss]

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That is awsome! I have to ask if you have ever filled the thing up? That would be SO many chickens. LOL.

 

[yotetrapper]

Nope, never have, but its getting darned close now. Once I put in the 50 pheasant eggs, turkey eggs, 2 batches more chicken eggs, and quail eggs.....

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

This is what I do with my calls, pekins, and mandarins.

Around day 4, I start cooling for around 10-15 min per day. I mist them with water during that cool down period. I do that up until I put them on lockdown. I either incubate them in my brinsea, which sits on a turning cradle or my 1588, and hand turn. I dont add any water to the incubator, just mist. I soak the eggs down when I mist them. With my 1588, I keep the vent either 1/2 open or all the way open. With the brinsea I keep it all the way open. When I mist, I just use room temp water. I also add some brinsea incubation disinfectant to the water with which I spray the eggs with.

Day 26 (for mandies), day 25 (for pekins) or day 23 (for calls), I move them to my 1602n or my other 1588 to hatch. I keep the humidity around 70-75% for the hatch, but the past few hatches it has been around 80% and they have all hatched just fine. I also hatch out all my eggs in cartons.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

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My Holderread Duck books says to mist every 24 hours during lockdown. I use 100 degree water so the short humidity and temperature drop does not seem to be a big issue. I've checked both and they are back up within 5 minutes. Not enough time to effect the eggs.
Katharina

Thank you, good info!

And thank you too Sundown Waterfowl

This is what I do with my calls, pekins, and mandarins.

Around day 4, I start cooling for around 10-15 min per day. I mist them with water during that cool down period. I do that up until I put them on lockdown. I either incubate them in my brinsea, which sits on a turning cradle or my 1588, and hand turn. I dont add any water to the incubator, just mist. I soak the eggs down when I mist them. With my 1588, I keep the vent either 1/2 open or all the way open. With the brinsea I keep it all the way open. When I mist, I just use room temp water. I also add some brinsea incubation disinfectant to the water with which I spray the eggs with.

Day 26 (for mandies), day 25 (for pekins) or day 23 (for calls), I move them to my 1602n or my other 1588 to hatch. I keep the humidity around 70-75% for the hatch, but the past few hatches it has been around 80% and they have all hatched just fine. I also hatch out all my eggs in cartons.

 

[yotetrapper]

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The whole time, or just the last three days?

 

[yotetrapper]

Well, they didnt come today. Should be here tomorrow!

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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The whole time, or just the last three days?

The last 3 days I move them into the paper cartons with the sides trimmed down. I also poke holes into the bottom, that way if I have a duck that pips on the wrong end, I can reach in and flip him over.

 

[One Acre Wonder Farm]

I have terrific hatches with my own eggs; I've never attempted shipped duck eggs.

I incubate days 1-25 same temp as chickens 30-40% humidity.

Day 25 I up the humidity to 60-65%.

I don't mist, and I manually turned 3x/day in a brinsea eco 20 (i.e. rolled the whole incubatora quarter turn).

I have my first batch this year in an LG, still air, hand turning on day 12 (ish?). So far, so good!