Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: 90+ is not good enough lol! I usually don't have to pull any of mine! well the quail had issues!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: LMAO!!! that could be 5 eggs!!! I have two broodies right now that leaves 3 hens and who knows if they will lay an egg or not! turds I tell you!!! Lets keep praying for them to get up to par with the egg laying and give me some good decent looking eggs. I swear my next batch will be laying before those brats put off more good eggs! They either step on them or they have too much calcium or the hens are too hot or broody!

 

[ozexpat]

90+ is not good enough lol! I usually don't have to pull any of mine! well the quail had issues!

Oh well

 

[scooter16]

Just curious. What do you do with the quail? I haven't posted much, but am enjoying all the reading. My one hatch this summer from 15 shipped eggs was poor. Two survivors. Most of them had huge air cells and pipped at the wrong part of the egg. Only 6 made it to lockdown, and other 4 were well developed, but either dried out/couldn't zip due to malpositioning, or had egg full of yellow fluid and drowned. Will pick up any eggs in the future, the USPS is not a friend to anything fragile or alive. I appreciated your advice early on. Thanks

 

[loveourbirds]

Quote: those are expensive or am I missing something? I don't want to spend much, we looked at Chads turner that I have here yet and think we cut off two of the rows, but not sure the cost is worth cutting that many eggs "off" but otherwise wont fit in the cooler. I will research and see what I can find, maybe I will put the egg trays back in and do the entire tile for a hatch and see how they fair.
the one i gave the link for is $15.00 the timer moter is around $30 switches should be under $5. they may have a cheaper actuator, that was just the one i chose for me.

 

[loveourbirds]

Quote: the turner motor is part of the timer. it pushes switch 1 and 2 every 2 hours. LS 1 and 2 are limit switches to stop the shelf where you want.

you can use a digital timer in its place, but in my experience digital and an incubator's humidity dont mix. i mainly designed this for ease of getting parts. since i didnt include it earlier here is a link for the turner/timer motor. http://incubatorwarehouse.com/egg-turner-motor-110v.html and i was wrong on the price, its $10.00

edited for clarity, i know what im doing but its hard to explain

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Just curious. What do you do with the quail? I haven't posted much, but am enjoying all the reading. My one hatch this summer from 15 shipped eggs was poor. Two survivors. Most of them had huge air cells and pipped at the wrong part of the egg. Only 6 made it to lockdown, and other 4 were well developed, but either dried out/couldn't zip due to malpositioning, or had egg full of yellow fluid and drowned. Will pick up any eggs in the future, the USPS is not a friend to anything fragile or alive. I appreciated your advice early on. Thanks

Lynn!

We processed ours, but in the end gave the breeders back to Chad (friend close by and on BYC) not worth raising unless u sell eggs or a lot of people sell to Asian markets and restaurants. Eventually we will do meaties. Some people keep the button quail for in the bottom of their big bird cages inside, they help clean up the mess the big birds make and run the bottom of the cage. They sing a pretty song too.

I cant help you out with incubating them, I can never see inside my Coturnix eggs at least most of them, too dark and splattered spots. But mine were all local eggs.

I broke down and ordered WFS eggs from Nebraska..... not sure how they will turn out : ( But sometimes you just have no choice when you are looking for a certain breed. But I already know I will be disappointed and will keep trying till I get a few more hens, like 2 or three! LOL

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: those are expensive or am I missing something? I don't want to spend much, we looked at Chads turner that I have here yet and think we cut off two of the rows, but not sure the cost is worth cutting that many eggs "off" but otherwise wont fit in the cooler. I will research and see what I can find, maybe I will put the egg trays back in and do the entire tile for a hatch and see how they fair.
the one i gave the link for is $15.00 the timer moter is around $30 switches should be under $5. they may have a cheaper actuator, that was just the one i chose for me.
pasted to email for DH, sometime or other I hope I can drag his butt on here. He has a FB account now! to play games with the kids!

 

[loveourbirds]

overall that turner mechanism shouldnt cost over $75 including shipping, wire, and a seperate switch for leveling out the shelves. my plan was to mount it close to the front and just push the contact on the proper switch and not add the leveler switch.

 

[ozexpat]

the turner motor is part of the timer. it pushes switch 1 and 2 every 2 hours. LS 1 and 2 are limit switches to stop the shelf where you want.

you can use a digital timer in its place, but in my experience digital and an incubator's humidity dont mix. i mainly designed this for ease of getting parts. since i didnt include it earlier here is a link for the turner/timer motor. http://incubatorwarehouse.com/egg-turner-motor-110v.html and i was wrong on the price, its $10.00

edited for clarity, i know what im doing but its hard to explain

I get it - very clever to use the small motor as a switch gear