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Game Bird Incubation Chart

Category: Game Birds



Game Bird Incubation Chart
Temperature is to be 99.5 forced-air.
Temperature at 101.5 in still air.
measured at the top of the eggs.

Species	Incubation Period	Temp (F.) Forced Air	Relative Humidity	Humidity Last 3 Days	Stop Turning Eggs
Poultry Large Fowl Bantams	21 days 21 days	99.5 99.5	60-65% 60-65%	80-85% 80-85%	19th day 19th day
Partridges Chuckar Hungarian	23 days 23 days	99.5 99.5	60-65% 60-65%	80-85% 80-85%	21st day 21st day
Peafowl India Blue Green	27-29 days 28 days	99.5 99.5	60-65% 60-65%	80-85% 80-85%	25th day 26th day
Pheasants Red Golden Lady Amherst Reeve's Ringneck Silver Yellow Golden	22 days 22 days 25 days 24-25 days 25-26 days 22 days	99.5 99.5 99.5 99.5 99.5 99.5	60-65% 60-65% 60-65% 60-65% 60-65% 60-65%	80-85% 80-85% 80-85% 80-85% 80-85% 80-85%	20th day 20th day 23th day 22th day 23th day 20th day
Quail Blue Scaled Bobwhite Button California Valley Coturnix Gambels Mountain	23 days 22-23 days 16 days 22-23 days 16-18 days 22 days 24-25 days	99.5 99.5 99.5 99.5 99.5 99.5 99.5	60-65% 60-65% 60-65% 60-65% 60-65% 60-65% 60-65%	80-85% 80-85% 80-85% 80-85% 80-85% 80-85% 80-85%	21st day 20th day 14th day 20th day 14th day 20th day 23rd day
Turkeys Bourbon Red BB Bronze Giant White Royal Palm Wild	28 days 28 days 28 days 28 days 28 days	99.5 99.5 99.5 99.5 99.5	60-65% 60-65% 60-65% 60-65% 60-65%	80-85% 80-85% 80-85% 80-85% 80-85%	26th day 26th day 26th day 26th day 26th day
Waterfowl Ducks Muscovy Geese Swans	28 days 35-37 days 28-30 days 30-37 days	99.5 99.5 99.5 99.5	70-75% 70-75% 70-75% 70-75%	90-95% 90-95% 90-95% 90-95%	26th day 34th day 27th day 29th day
Ratites Rea Ostrich Emu	35-40 days 42 days 50-56 days	97.5 97.5 97.5	30-35% 30-35% 30-35%	50-55% 50-55% 50-55%	34th day 40th day 49th day