Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Iain Utah]

Congrats to everyone who had good hatches! Love those little fuzzy butts!

I'm hoping to improve my next try and have a few questions. First, what does everyone think of misting the eggs every day? I didn't do that, but the eggs developed through day 26 before dying. I've heard that it simulates the mother duck sitting on them after going in the water. Second, how does it affect the eggs differently when incubated in a still air or forced air incubator? Third, my incubation conditions worked right up until the end in a hovabator. Do you think moving them into something other than styrofoam for hatching would improve their chances? I have a homemade storage bin incubator, still air, that I got good results in when hatching chicken eggs. I can't keep buying eggs when nothing hatches...

~ Stacy

I don't mist my duck eggs, but I do mist my goose eggs starting on day 7.

I use a still air LG for incubating and hatching, and so far have had 75%, 50% & 66.6% hatch rates (of the eggs that developed by day 7) with shipped eggs. It's not great, but I've been very pleased with the babies I have hatched.

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

Oh gosh! I feel SOOOOOO bad! I thought a baby chick was shrink wraped! to i opened the egg a little, and the bottom of the egg cracked! thats not the bad part!

The bad part is, that hes REALLY shrink wraped! and he never internally pipped! What do i do? he hasn'y exorbed all the blood yet... almost though!

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

THREE PIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONE IS ZIPPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So far loving the still air as a hatcher. Fingers crossed.


And I need to find YET another brooder.

 

[Evelle]

Yeah! I'm going to need help with all these chickens. We're thinking of the town Forks. Ever heard of it?

its about 8 hours from where i live
ooooooo quackers is going to vampier country

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

Oh gosh! I feel SOOOOOO bad! I thought a baby chick was shrink wraped! to i opened the egg a little, and the bottom of the egg cracked! thats not the bad part!

The bad part is, that hes REALLY shrink wraped! and he never internally pipped! What do i do? he hasn'y exorbed all the blood yet... almost though!

So... can you see his beak?

 

[QuackerJackFarms]

its about 8 hours from where i live
ooooooo quackers is going to vampier country

Gonna find me some Edward.

 

[Iain Utah]

THREE PIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONE IS ZIPPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So far loving the still air as a hatcher. Fingers crossed.


And I need to find YET another brooder.

 

[JulieNKC]

You don't mist your duck eggs? I've done both and I don't see a difference.

I did once, on my calls since I had geese in there anyway, and I had an awful hatch, although I had temp problems and they were shipped. My first duck eggs were 2/2 and so far these are 14/14 not spraying so I'm not bothering with it.

 

[Evelle]

Gonna find me some Edward.

its REALLY wet there!
GO TEAM JACOB!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO

 

[DUCKGIRL89]

So... can you see his beak?

Uuummm, kinda. his hip more... hes trying to pip on the wrong end!... You gave me bad luck! LOL