Help with baby MASCOVEY duck eggs!

[Eliana Ghen]

Can someone help me too please?! I love this forum I can't believe there is more information about these kinds of ducks. I rescued Mascovey duck eggs. They are in an incubator but when I candled them their air sack looks a lot larger then how they look, I think I am on day 12/13 they are smaller then a pennny, however their air sack to me looks larger then a quarter. I called somone that hatches them but they said they keep their incubators at 70 all the time because they are hatching ducks at different stages, so I have the incubator now at 99.5 f and 60% humidity hoping that will help the babies grow bigger so their air sac doesnt get to big without them. I candled last night and I weighed each egg, Can somoene please tell me if there is anything else I should be doing right now besides keeping an eye on them? I am going to allow them to cool 10-15 minutes a day and spray them with some warm water then put them back into the incubator daily. I just need to know what else I could be doing. ALSO I am using the KEBONNIX incubator and the on top says my temperature is perfect, but I also have in INKBIRD thermamator I just got today and that is reading 98.6 which thermomotor should I trust and calibrate to? THANKS!!!

 

[Debbie292d]

You can calibrate your Inkbird by filling a large bowl or jar with crushed ice, then fill with cold tap water. Stir, then put the sensor end in there for 30 seconds or so. It should register 32F. If it doesn't, they can be calibrated. After it is, then put that in to see what the incubator shows and adjust it.

I think your humidity is a tad high, but since you're weighing them, then you're doing fine.

Here's a great article to read. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/incubating-and-hatching-muscovy-eggs.63532/

Wishing you a great hatch!

 

[Eliana Ghen]

You can calibrate your Inkbird by filling a large bowl or jar with crushed ice, then fill with cold tap water. Stir, then put the sensor end in there for 30 seconds or so. It should register 32F. If it doesn't, they can be calibrated. After it is, then put that in to see what the incubator shows and adjust it.

I think your humidity is a tad high, but since you're weighing them, then you're doing fine.

Here's a great article to read. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/incubating-and-hatching-muscovy-eggs.63532/

Wishing you a great hatch!

Thanks so much! I moved the humidity down to 55% My friend who hatches them hatches them at 55% Thanks for the help with the inkbird!!! I am weighing them again today to see how they are progressing and then from there will adjust again. Thanks!