To be honest eggs without incubator is not preferable. There are many reasons for it. It is not only the temperature is important in the whole process of hatching, but also control of incubation RH, which is important. But, these days many people are trying to experiment in some unusual ways to hatch ducks eggs.
The most sought after techniques to hatch duck eggs without the use of the incubator is to place the lamp under the lamp. However, you should make sure that the egg is placed directly under the lamp, moreover, you have to rotate the sides of eggs per four-five hours to avoid the concentration of light at certain page only. Besides this, make sure that your spirit that duck with water at least twice a day.
Then there is a process called natural incubation. In this, you can easily put duck eggs under a broody duck. Muscovite considered the best eggs legislators and these have the capacity for hatching eggs 12-16. But you have to ensure that the nest box should be placed in the dry and clean shelter, bedded with suitable litter. There should be sufficient quantity of water and feed available for broody ducks and false for ducklings when they hatch.
Eventually we need to understand that there is a huge difference between eggs hatched by incubator and the eggs are incubated by other methods. Incubator not only provide heat for the eggs, they are many other methods that can keep the eggs at 80-90 degrees Celsius, but it is also the humidity, which is regulated in an incubator. If the humidity is not that chick can get stuck on the side of the egg and may eventually die before hatching. People do try different methods of hatching, but only some of them succeeded. Incubator is risk free, and is also not very expensive that it could burn a hole in your pocket. Therefore it is advisable to go to the incubator.
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