What temp should incubator be at overnight. (Ducklings)

[Jmiller89]

I have 7 out of 9 duckling hatched out in my small incubator. I’m planning on leaving them all in there over night. I lowered the temp to 99 degrees for lockdown and humidity is around 80% right now. Is 99 a safe temp overnight?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Why aren't you moving them to the brooder?

 

[Jmiller89]

Why aren't you moving them to the brooder?

Most are still wet

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Are they actually wet or dried but not fluffy? It only takes like 30-45 minutes for them to dry

 

[Jmiller89]

I can move them if that would be better. But I don’t want to have the incubator open to long and end up with the other two shrink wrapped.

 

[Jmiller89]

Are they actually wet or dried but not fluffy? It only takes like 30-45 minutes for them to dry

Most are probably dry then. One just hatched. Will it be safe for the unhatched to open?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Just move them quick and make sure to bump the humidity when it's closed. I remove my chicks all the time from the incubator since it's not good for them to be knocking over the eggs that are hatching.

 

[Jmiller89]

Just move them quick and make sure to bump the humidity when it's closed. I remove my chicks all the time from the incubator since it's not good for them to be knocking over the eggs that are hatching.

Thank you, I will. I put a cloth underneath them before lockdown to try to keep them from rolling but there’s not much room in there now.