Hi all my name is Jake and I am from New Zealand.
I have a query regarding a Chinese egg incubator I have used, I don’t have the exact model number. It is a 96 egg one but I have only used it as a single layer with 48 eggs.
Anyway to my question.
On my first attempt last month using it about 30 eggs were fertile and I had a disappointing hatch rate of 8. The humidity was hard to maintain at 65 and constantly fluctuated.
On my second attempt just recently, I had read multiple people online stating to use the styrofoam packing the incubator came in. I decided to do so but only after day 18 in order to keep the humidity high enough.
From the instructions I also filled the vents up with warm water which seemed to help and it maintained a humidity of 65-66 during hatching.
Out of 36 eggs 13 eggs hatched, so still not an outstanding rate by any means but a improvement on last time.
The issue however was when today I went to take the chicks out they were absolutely soaked in water as the condensation had got into the fan on the roof and was going all over them (some would of been for an entire 24 hours or more).
Luckily, after putting them under a heatpad all day they have dried out and are eating etc.
What suggestions would anyone on here have in future with this incubator to avoid this happening, as I definitely wouldn’t want it to occur again.
The reason I didn’t take the chicks out earlier, is that I always like to leave them in the incubator to dry and also not lift the lid until most if not all have hatched, to avoid affecting the temperature and humidity.
Luckily, this is only my secondary incubator when I want to hatch a few extra. My main one is a Brinsea 56 EX which works perfectly with great results.
I’m not surprised that a cheap Chinese incubator can’t compare but I still wouldn’t of expected it to do what it did.
I won’t likely be hatching more eggs for a few months now due to it being well into Autumn in NZ now and the fertility rates being lower, but if someone who may have experienced similar issues with a Chinese incubator has any suggestions, your help would be appreciated.
Kind regards,
Jake
I have a query regarding a Chinese egg incubator I have used, I don’t have the exact model number. It is a 96 egg one but I have only used it as a single layer with 48 eggs.
Anyway to my question.
On my first attempt last month using it about 30 eggs were fertile and I had a disappointing hatch rate of 8. The humidity was hard to maintain at 65 and constantly fluctuated.
On my second attempt just recently, I had read multiple people online stating to use the styrofoam packing the incubator came in. I decided to do so but only after day 18 in order to keep the humidity high enough.
From the instructions I also filled the vents up with warm water which seemed to help and it maintained a humidity of 65-66 during hatching.
Out of 36 eggs 13 eggs hatched, so still not an outstanding rate by any means but a improvement on last time.
The issue however was when today I went to take the chicks out they were absolutely soaked in water as the condensation had got into the fan on the roof and was going all over them (some would of been for an entire 24 hours or more).
Luckily, after putting them under a heatpad all day they have dried out and are eating etc.
What suggestions would anyone on here have in future with this incubator to avoid this happening, as I definitely wouldn’t want it to occur again.
The reason I didn’t take the chicks out earlier, is that I always like to leave them in the incubator to dry and also not lift the lid until most if not all have hatched, to avoid affecting the temperature and humidity.
Luckily, this is only my secondary incubator when I want to hatch a few extra. My main one is a Brinsea 56 EX which works perfectly with great results.
I’m not surprised that a cheap Chinese incubator can’t compare but I still wouldn’t of expected it to do what it did.
I won’t likely be hatching more eggs for a few months now due to it being well into Autumn in NZ now and the fertility rates being lower, but if someone who may have experienced similar issues with a Chinese incubator has any suggestions, your help would be appreciated.
Kind regards,
Jake