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1 Incubating ducks and turkeys/chickens on Sat Apr 30, 2011 8:50 pm

HighCountry


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Can you successfully incubate duck eggs with turkey and chicken eggs?

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2 Re: Incubating ducks and turkeys/chickens on Sat Apr 30, 2011 8:58 pm

Amy


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Lol, you're getting ducks!

I have two duck eggs due tomoorow with my chicks, but I think ideally I would do them seperate.

What kind of ducks are you getting?

3 Re: Incubating ducks and turkeys/chickens on Sat Apr 30, 2011 9:20 pm

HighCountry


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Saxony and possibly some others .... need some more LOL? Razz

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4 Re: Incubating ducks and turkeys/chickens on Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:04 pm

Prairie Chick


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Yes you can, I have do it myself. Very Happy

5 Re: Incubating ducks and turkeys/chickens on Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:29 pm

HighCountry


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so what did you run your humidity at during the incubation and lockdown through to hatching. I will be hathcing 1 set of trays per week now so wondering if the humidity will affect the other eggs still growing?

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6 Re: Incubating ducks and turkeys/chickens on Sat Apr 30, 2011 11:25 pm

chickeesmom


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I have all of them in the incubator right now, with three goose eggs, everyday I open the door and mist the duck and goose eggs. Someone said to take them out and let them cool for 10 minutes or so, but I never seem to have the time to do that, so they just get a spray everyday. I also read to keep the spray bottle in the incubator so it is the same temp as the eggs, but I haven't don't that either. I hatched a few goose eggs last year and that is all I did.
Of course they didn't get a spray when the lockdown was on and chicks were hatching. I really havn't done that many so not sure how it affects the other eggs.

7 Re: Incubating ducks and turkeys/chickens on Sun May 01, 2011 10:31 am

HiddenAcresBC


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I just incubated 22 ducks and 50 chicken eggs together. About 21 ducks hatched and I still have chicks hatching this morning. SO far I think 40 chicks have hatched and there are still about 5 pipped. PHEW! I just misted the duck eggs twice a day and added the chicken eggs a week after the ducks so they would hatch at the same time. Worked pretty darn good Id say! It can be done Very Happy Good luck!

Jaclyn

8 Re: Incubating ducks and turkeys/chickens on Sun May 01, 2011 12:04 pm

HighCountry


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Okay, so mist twice a day and keep the humidity set at 45% during incubation? I think I will incubate the ducks in the Brinsea but lockdown and hatch in the hovabator so I can up the humidity with out affecting the chicken and turkey eggs. What humidity should I lockdown and hatch with?

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