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Everyone has their own niggles and adjusts their incubators to suit their own surroundings and methods, but below is a table containing "averages" regarding humidity, temperature and incubation times for the typical fan assisted incubator.

The temperatures given should be the temperature measured at the top of the egg. 99.5oF is the recommended temperature for forced-air (fan assisted) incubators and 101.5oF in still-air incubators.

Animal
Incubation Time (days)
Temperature (oF)
Humidity
Humidity Last 3 Days
Stop Turning Eggs
Poultry
Large Fowl
21
99.5
60-65%
80-85%
19th day
Bantams
19
99.5
60-65%
80-85%
17th day
Partridge
Barbary
23
99.5
60-65%
80-85%
21st day
Chuckar
23
99.5
60-65%
80-85%
21st day
Hungarian
23
99.5
60-65%
80-85%
21st day
Peafowl
Congo
26
99.5
60-65%
80-85%
22nd day
Green
28
99.5
60-65%
80-85%
26th day
Guineas
28
99.5
60-65%
80-85%
26th day
India Blue
27 - 29
99.5
60-65%
80-85%
25th day
Quail
Benson
22
99.5
60-65%
80-85%
20th day
Blue Scaled
23
99.5
60-65%
80-85%
21th day
Bobwhite
22 - 23
99.5
60-65%
80-85%
20th day
Button
16
99.5
60-65%
80-85%
14th day
Cal Valley
22 - 23
99.5
60-65%
80-85%
20th day
Coturnix
16 - 18
99.5
60-65%
80-85%
14th day
Gambels
22
99.5
60-65%
80-85%
20th day
Mearns
24 - 25
99.5
60-65%
80-85%
23th day
Mountain
24 - 25
99.5
60-65%
80-85%
23th day
Waterfowl
Ducks
28
99.5
70-75%
90-95%
26th day
Muscovy
35 - 38
99.5
70-75%
90-95%
34th day
Geese
28 - 30
99.5
70-75%
90-95%
27th day
Swans
30 - 37
99.5
70-75%
90-95%
29th day