Hatching Ducks, Geese & Chickens With an Incubator

In this video I go through the complete process of hatching ducklings, goslings, and baby chickens. I start with collecting the eggs and go through temperature and humidity, basic brooder set up, and removing the hatchlings from the incubator.
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[@GoldShawFarm]

Great video, Tucker!

[@MizpahFarms]

Thank you.

[@TwoFamilyHomestead]

Welcome to the YT homesteading community

[@MizpahFarms]

Thank you

[@roseannloker6030]

Nice work Tuck! I’m impressed with your videography and setup. Great explanations, too.

[@MizpahFarms]

Thank you

[@charlottefyfe2431]

This is excellent - so clear and so instructive. I hope you'll do more like this!

[@MizpahFarms]

Thanks, I will be releasing a new one every week! 🐣

[@joannepantale483]

I really enjoyed this so I subscribed. Can't wait for another! Great stuff!

[@MizpahFarms]

Thank you so much. New vid will be out by Monday night.

[@CityBoyFarmingAndrewSeegars]

I really have to get some ducks now thanks for sharing!

[@MizpahFarms]

Yes ducks are the best. I am uploading a video now about their house.

[@DoubleDChicksNStuffHomestead]

Will be watching! New subscriber 🤗

[@MizpahFarms]

Thank you

[@mariesheppard3750]

This was the best goose egg hatching I ve seen, My goose egg using a incubator did not work not fertile he s shouting blank and there 4 years old

[@multi-transportationsystem11]

Great video very educational thx

[@MizpahFarms]

Thanks

[@andresllafquen7909]

que buen video

[@bobbymoriahyoho537]

Great video!

[@MizpahFarms]

Thank you

[@NanasMenagerie]

Awesome video

[@MizpahFarms]

Thanks. Their will be a new one by Monday night.

[@builtontherockhomestead9390]

Waiting for UPS to show up with my new incubator at this very moment. Plan on putting some duck eggs in first. Then chicken eggs next month.

[@MizpahFarms]

Great! Good luck

[@rh5022]

Mazel Tov

[@rh5022]

Water with a bucket cut an oval on the side

[@write2dawn]

How are you able to tell sex of geese? Mizpah Farms is a great name.

[@MizpahFarms]

With the Embden geese the female goslings have darker feathers.

[@noahriding5780]

In your video you said to turn the eggs 5 times a day. I'm interested to ask if you had better hatch rates turning them that many times over say 2x or 3x a day? Thank you.

[@MizpahFarms]

I have tried turning them less, but I had worse hatch rates doing that. With duck and chicken eggs I like to use an automatic egg turner ( the geese eggs didn’t fit) and it turns them every 2 hours and I had good results with that as well.

[@noahriding5780]

@@MizpahFarms thank you for the reply. Its good to learn from your experience.

[@MizpahFarms]

My pleasure

[@noahriding5780]

@@MizpahFarms I ran into another idea about this I wanted to ask you about... Some ppl have this idea that the eggs can overhead when growing and that because of this you need to have like a half hour break once or twice a day in the incubation process which lets them vent heat a bit. Then immediately keep them going. I was curious if you thought this was right? And how much that affects success rates? I had tried to incubate eggs last year a few times and it didn't work out. So I'm trying to figure out where it went wrong. But then I found out a family member had been opening the incubator at night also because they didn't want more animals. So I have to basically relearn it the whole process because its not clear where things went wrong, and maybe it would have worked if there hadn't been interference. ... Right now I really like having a broad set of life skills to apply in life. I like the idea that people can be self sufficient and try to better themselves. So skills like this are interesting and can help reduce a grocery budget. so they are on the rise as being more recognized to be useful to families.

[@nvdstoo]

Do you cool the goose eggs? And spray them after cooling a bit?

[@MizpahFarms]

Hi, this year I have been misting the eggs with warm water (about the same temperature as my hand) once daily from day 7 until I stop turning them. I don’t cool the eggs, because I don’t have the time. And I have had really good results with what I’ve been doing, but that’s just what I’ve found for me in our climate.

[@nvdstoo]

@@MizpahFarms okay thank you for reacting, what were you’re results? In procents about?

[@MizpahFarms]

Hi, I have had a hatch rate probably around the 90s. Keep in mind that is for the viable eggs and not including the infertile eggs that I removed when candleing.