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Ok, so here we go again. Six eggs in and six eggs perfect. Lock down about to start. Lets hope I get this bit right this time. I have my pots ready to go with water in. Let you all know in 7 days !! Thanks for all the advice, Jo

This is a fantastic article. Thankyou. i am excited again after a bad week of dead ducklings that after reading that i think they drowned !!! Getting ready to try again.

When you say dry incubation, is that with no water in the incubator until a few days before hatching ?? i read that i am meant to spray the eggs daily as the mother duck would be wet when she gets back on the eggs, will this drown them ??

Yes, but i'm too scared to put them in !!! You are right though, the kitchen may have been too hot and too busy. Shall i leave it 24hrs before i put them in.

This morning i have moved the incubator out of the kitchen with an Aga and into another room. And YAHOO the humidity is perfect and the temperature. Should i leave it a few days to see if it stays that way. Thankyou all so much Jo xx

Thankyou all so much for all your help and support. Tonight i have got the humidity up to 44% on both hygrometer, next problem, when i put the bator on the cradle all the water is leaking out the bottom when it's moving and now the humidity is at 38%. Why is this so complicated ?? Does lockdown...

I had all my ducks eggs pipping on Thursday and relly sadly all my ducklings died before they came out !!! I bought a cheap hygrometer which sits in the incubator, but yesterday i bought one with a probe that is in the incubator with the reading outside. Both hygrometers have a very different...