duck egg incubation humidity hatching

I am incubating Mallard eggs at this moment I started off with about 10 of them and four of them died around day 6 and I did and egg autopsy and they were not developed embryos I did another egg Topsy on for more of my duck eggs that died around 18 to 20 days incubation and they looked fully...

Hi Everyone! New here and first time incubator-er question for you... I am on day 10 of incubating my Cayuga eggs. Took them out and sprayed them, gave them a few min to cool down and put them back in the incubator, now my incubator is resting at a 75%-85% humidity where it was 50%. I assume...

I purchased 20 duck eggs 6 Rouen 7 Pekin 7 Cayuga I have a bator arriving Tuesday August 21. This will give me a few days to test it before they arrive! Do I let eggs sit for a day or two before I put in bator? How do I store them until they go into the bator? How long can they be stored...

hi All! My first post here tho I’ve been lurking for a while! I have a duck egg I found next to my bird feeder 29 days ago. Kind of made a make shift incubator and it’s been developing just as shown on a duck egg candling graphic I found online. Tho I dare say I’ve been pretty good bout...

hi! My first post here tho I’ve been lurking for a while! I have a duck egg I found next to my bird feeder 29 days ago. Kind of made a make shift incubator and it’s been developing just as shown on a duck egg candling graphic I found online. Tho I dare say I’ve been pretty good bout...

I don't know how old the eggs in my incubator are. My female duck has been nesting for a while and she ended up being unfit mother so I brought the eggs inside to incubate. I hear a duckling inside an egg chirping and I can feel and hear it pecking. When do I know to help it if at all? I found...

Hello I'm currently incubating some Cayuga eggs and I've come to candle them , it appears only two are fertile but one has two dark spots which are wiggling so alive but does this mean two embryos ? It's day ten of incubation as well . Hopefully someone can advise .

I have 11 duck eggs (both indian runner and call duck) sitting ready to go into the incubator. However this will not fill the incubator. The ducks are continueing to lay each day and so i was going to wait until i had enough eggs to fill the incubator before turning it on. Although i have heard...

Please help! We have been incubating in a turner & transferring to still air at 25 days - Welch Harlequin & Khaki Campbell duck eggs. We candle at 7 days and again at 15, once more at 25 when transferring. We have several babies - however - our last batch of 15 only hatched 4. All 15 were...