A "HovaBator Incubator" holds 42 chicken eggs. A "Farm Innovators Incubator" holds 48 eggs. You can use the same incubator for hatching chicken, duck or turkey eggs. Since the number of days of incubation is different, you hatch them so all eggs are the same type for each batch.
You need a hygrometer humidity gauge. Keeping the right humidity is very important. It is better to have higher than recommended humidity than lower especially when eggs are hatching. If it is too dry, the birds will have difficulty getting out of the egg. Open the incubator only when absolutely needed such as adding water to maintain humidity. Most incubators have small holes at the top where you can add water with a funnel.
Water is usually added about 2 times per week. Check your humidity gauge. Opening the incubator changes the temperature and humidity that can take hours to readjust. Eggs are put in the turner with small ends down. The turner moves very slowly. Or you can turn eggs by hand times a day. Then switch sides, going back and forth each time.
Turning prevents the embryo from sticking to the shell. Do not turn the last 3 days. Remove turner and put eggs on side on incubator floor. Or keep eggs in turner and turn off the electric when the racks are level. The advantage to keeping them in the racks is that the floor temperature is cooler than the rack temperature. So the egg temperature is kept stable. Also the babies in the eggs have adjusted to a certain position so not moving them may make it easier for them to get out of their shell.
These 2 photos show hatches I have done both ways. First Pip to Unzip to Out of Shell It is usually hours from pipping first hole in egg to hatching, though it can take up to 48 hours. It is called unzipping when the baby chips at the egg in a circle. There can be up to a 4 day difference between when the first baby hatches and the last one hatches.
So let the incubator run more than 21 chicken or 28 Ancona duck days, just in case. That brought the total to 4 out 6. Not bad. I almost, almost, shut the incubator down before that last one hatched. The video is from Anya in Durham, North Carolina. It is great to watch the duckling get out of the shell. I was rooting for him. Fun to watch. Duck egg at 6 days from Jaime in Springfield, Vermont. Duck egg at 7 days from Allison in Citrus Heights, California. Duck egg at 8 days. Duck eggs at 14 days from Joy in Bellevue, Washington.
So thank you for such beautiful eggs :. Candling eggs has seriously been one of the coolest experiences I have ever had with any farm or pet animals. It reminded me so much of ultrasounds I had of my own children. LOL I was almost as excited seeing the baby chicks growing!! You throw away infertile clear or dead cloudy eggs. You do not have to candle eggs at all if you don't want to. The less eggs are moved the better. You can candle eggs at day 1 when you receive your eggs and after 7 days in the incubator.
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I have done it ok depending on the breed of chicken and duck you are hatching, and I generally used the dry incubation method which is good for thick shelled eggs, but not so good for poor shelled eggs. If the eggs are similar size and similar shell thickness then have a go. Remember that ducks take around 28 days and hens 21, but I have always found it depends more on the size of the egg rather than the type of fowl.
Eggs wont begin to develop until the hatching temp had been reached at the centre of the egg. So larger eggs take longer to warm and are therefore slower to hatch. You may have more success if you have an incubator and a separate hatcher. So the eggs are moved to the hatcher about 3 days before the hatch is due, then you wont need to time the eggs so precisely.
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