Hey Wulf!
Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today
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Hey Wulf!
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Hi! just trying to catch up a little before work.
LaGeniaLoca
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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'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
- Sep 5, 2011
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My muscovy hen is still on her nest... I think it will be the end of the month before anything hatches. She doesn't want me to look and the couple of times she has been off the nest Blondie (the chicken) has been sitting on it for her.
Well that's cool. Good little Blondie.
Hey LaLoca! I have a cabinet with a fan, and before I had a LG with a fan.. I didn't have great luck with the LD process. So this time, I have taken the fan out of the LG and I'm using if for a hatcher.
Last weekend was the first time I tried this and I was VERY pleased with the results, but that was chickens.
I have 8 Saxony ducks in there now, and I'll know here in a day if I get better hatch rates on the duck eggs. So I'll let you know.
I liked the forced air for getting the eggs to the hatching point, but then the fan was drying them out as they pipped.
I mist my eggs everyday. I honestly don't know that it makes much difference.
I will NEVER use a automatic turner again ever though. EVER. I'm convinced that ducks do not do well in them. Mine didn't anyway.
Ps: My name is Stacy, spelled the same.
Last weekend was the first time I tried this and I was VERY pleased with the results, but that was chickens.
I have 8 Saxony ducks in there now, and I'll know here in a day if I get better hatch rates on the duck eggs. So I'll let you know.
I liked the forced air for getting the eggs to the hatching point, but then the fan was drying them out as they pipped.
I mist my eggs everyday. I honestly don't know that it makes much difference.
I will NEVER use a automatic turner again ever though. EVER. I'm convinced that ducks do not do well in them. Mine didn't anyway.
Ps: My name is Stacy, spelled the same.
i would love that thank you!!!
I have bad luck trying for boys so it wouldn't surprise me. Ask hubby, lol. Their quacks should get more clear soon and I'll know for sure though. The bigger ducks were obvious by this age, they are loud but I can barely hear these little guys.
I like Fiona too.
If your hatcher works for chicken eggs I say try it with ducks. Still air styrobators are supposed to be good for hatching though, just not as trusty for incubating. I don't mist duck eggs, but it won't hurt them either so I say try it.
You don't mist your duck eggs? I've done both and I don't see a difference.
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