There is a junco nest in my backyard and she has 2 beautiful babies and 1 stray egg that fell out of the nest. I dont know if it is fertile or not but since the mother was nowhere near it and it was out of the nes I put it in my duck incubator with no duck eggs in it. Considering it is fertile what temperatures will it need to properly hatch. Please do not tell me I made a bad choice because what help does that do because theres no hope of putting it back. Thank you.
2007-06-09 12:23:41 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Birds
NEED MORE IMFORMATION ABOUT BABIE JUNCOS
2007-06-09 13:20:47 · update #1
If you can put it back in the nest, do so; that's the best place for it. Incubation period is 12-13 days for a dark-eyed Junco, of which the Oregon Junco is a sub-species. I'm not able to tell you much about temperatures, so I'd have to go with whatever temperature you'd use for a duck, my thinking being that if you put the egg under a REAL duck, it would probably hatch :-)
The Cornell University site on wild birds (below) is EXCELLENT.
Good luck, and come back and tell us if it hatches!
2007-06-09 12:31:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If she already has chicks and there was still an egg left...it is most likely unfertile or it would have hatched when the others did.
2007-06-10 01:48:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe about the same as a duck and chicken. but if its a big eggs try to raise the temp.
2007-06-17 14:24:28 · answer #3 · answered by thedawg 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if it is for every bird, but for house sparrows, the temperature should be between 96.8 to 104.9
2007-06-09 19:42:11 · answer #4 · answered by Kribensis lover 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋