What is the coolest temp eggs can be successfully incubated at.

[jsvand5]

I have an incubator going for my reptiles and would love to try to hatch out a few Welsh harlequin eggs in there as well. My only problem is that all of the snake eggs are incubated at 89 and they will still be in there for a few months. Is there any shot that duck eggs could hatch at that temp? I could possibly bump the temp up to 90, but that is as high a the snakes can take it.

 

[ColbyNTX]

I don't think it would work but if the eggs are from your ducks and you have plenty, what do you have to loose but if you are buying eggs, I wouldn't try it. Remember if they do happen to develope, the hatch would be late. I don' think it would work though.

 

[dancingbear]

I can't say for ducks for sure, but with chicken eggs, if the temp is too high or too low, you can get all kinds of health problems, and a poor hatch rate, and high mortality rate in those that do hatch. A variation by as little as 2 degrees off can cause problems. (That's steady temp, it's not uncommon for temp to fluctuate one or two degrees. As long as it doesn't go too high or too low for viability, as long as the average temp is on target, you can get a very good hatch.)

Ducks are supposed to incubate at 99.5°F, and the last 3 days for hatch should be at 98.5° F, so that's a pretty big difference. I think you'd just be wasting eggs.

 

[saddina]

I'm going to say no, however the homemade bator hubby made me was about $10 in parts from the hardware store, and the rest was odds and ends in the junk drawer/garage.

 

[DANNY]

No. That is way to low to attempt to hatch ducks or chickens.

 

[poultryhaven]

I wouldn't try it buttttttttttttttttttttttttt............................

From Ocala too =]