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stillmecle said:
But I need my humidity up for my ducks don't I? What does the humidity need to be for geese?
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I keep mine at 30-40% for everything until lockdown. I hear too many horror stories about babies pipping and drowning, so I'm scared to put the humidity too high.During the summer it stays around 40 without adding any water at all. Since the house is so dry during the winter from the heater and all I have 2 cups of water in there with sponges to up it a bit otherwise the humidity's only about 15%, but I don't worry about it other than that during incubation. I also mist waterfowl eggs twice a day, so that raises the humidity a little bit, but not enough to drown the chickens. This is my first time incubating goose eggs though, and I still have almost 3 weeks to go, so who knows if I'm doing it right. I'd rather have shrinkwrapped birds I can maybe help though than dead drowned ones, so hopefully I'm doing the right thing.
 
JulieNKC said:
I keep mine at 30-40% for everything until lockdown. I hear too many horror stories about babies pipping and drowning, so I'm scared to put the humidity too high.During the summer it stays around 40 without adding any water at all. Since the house is so dry during the winter from the heater and all I have 2 cups of water in there with sponges to up it a bit otherwise the humidity's only about 15%, but I don't worry about it other than that during incubation. I also mist waterfowl eggs twice a day, so that raises the humidity a little bit, but not enough to drown the chickens. This is my first time incubating goose eggs though, and I still have almost 3 weeks to go, so who knows if I'm doing it right. I'd rather have shrinkwrapped birds I can maybe help though than dead drowned ones, so hopefully I'm doing the right thing.
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OH WOW. Have I been doing my ducks wrong then? I keep my humidity about 75 to 80 the entire time for my ducks and I mist then everyday
 
JulieNKC said:
I do, but I'm pretty sure ducks are supposed to be at like 60-70, and 75-80 for lockdown only. Let me go try to figure out how to search things on this dang new forum...
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Everything I had read before I started said 70-80 and 85 at lockdown. Or around there.
 
craz e laid e said:
I'm never going to catch up with you guys. The other night I logged on and it said there were 201 unread messages. I got it down to about 90, and now it ways 234!
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I'm still on Friday the 13th. Hope your days all ended better than they started. Sorry for all of your troubles. By the way, you DO realize this now has "Spell Check" don't you? LOL (It doesn't like LOL, though.
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Oh my goodness! That's a LOT of talking!
 
stillmecle said:
Everything I had read before I started said 70-80 and 85 at lockdown. Or around there.
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I would make another thread and ask either in the duck or incubating section but I am pretty sure that's too high. You had a good hatch last time though, so who knows.
 

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