I cleaned my incubator with water and bleach rinsed really good and dried and set my bator back up. I am letting temps and humidity stable and opened it up and it smells just like bleach. I unplugged my bator and opened it with the lid off and letting in air out. Will the bleach smell leave? Should I rinse it again and set it outside. Or will the bleach smell hurt my turkey eggs?
I should have let it dried outside but I wanted to get it set up fast so I could put my turkey eggs in. I am letting it air out in the house for awhile then I'll set it up again see if it still smells like that. Ugh if its not one thing its another I planned on putting these turkey eggs in monday but due to delayed hatch I had to wait till today.
puhh..I didnt "plan" to incubate anymore-my first and only attempt bombed-so I was only going to order "some" silkie eggs..well I have now ordered from 3 people -the eggs will be here this week some time and...I ordered too many -my girlfriend is taking some to incubate for me-I promised her a bunch for free if she helps me get them all in!!! what am I thinking-help!!
I know you had trouble with your last batch.. we were on the same "hatching tread" a few days ago. I am sorry.
If it was a humidity problem, I might be able to help. I do much better with hatching when I set humidity by egg weight loss.
To do this you should weigh you eggs when you put them in. "jewelry" scales which are rated for 1 - 250 or 1 - 500 grams would probably handle turkey eggs pretty good. I got one for $15 including shipping on ebay for hatching my chicken eggs.
Even if you can't weigh on day 1 because you are waiting for a scale, I would set the humidity at whatever is the recommended and then weigh as soon as you get a scale.
I would be glad to enter your weights on a spreadsheet with formulas and help you estimate your orginal weight as well as whether you humidity needs to go up or down.
Hoping things go much better this time. I know how sad it is to have a hatch that didn't make it or very few make it.... this is what convinced me I had to set humidity by weight loss.
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Thanks so much for wanting to help me. I'll get a scale and be in contact with you. I use to have a scale that I used to weigh puppies when I use to breed them but I got rid of all that when I had my kids. I will get another and get back to you. That would be awesome to fix this problem. My 1st hatch I only got 2 out of 6 and this time I got 7 out of 11 eggs. I am gonna try to add my turkey eggs today and in 7 days I am going to get 2 dozen of a barnyard mix of chickens to hatch.
Even after rinsing it again with dish washing liquid It still has a strong bleach smell. I really wanna get my turkey eggs in there and I know how pourous eggs are. So will just the smell of the bleach hurt my turkey eggs?
