EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[shawluvsbirds]

I give my Broodies worthless eggs (EE) to hatch and keep the good ones to myself. Broodies cannot be trusted, They decide to stop, they roll away good eggs. They are great mothers and an easy way to raise chicks, but they have their risks.

When I say reach into an incubator, naturally, I mean with a sterile latex glove,,,,,,Introducing "not that much" is more than I want to introduce. I hatch to the standards my USDA vet requires for NPIP and then a tad more.

I know some of you will find this odd but I got through over 10 gallons of Bleach year hatching and rearing chicks. This does not count the bleach I use in my normal chicken keeping.

I know someone on here thinks I am a tad anal about my hatching practices....Luckily she is MIA for a few days.... I think she said she would be back tomorrow...

I practice survival of the fittest once they hatch. It is just too easy for a bacteria to get a foot hold inside the incubators and lose 220 plus eggs in a fast swoop..

@Pensmaster aRE yOu iMpLyING MIGHT b Cray cRAY?

So she didn't get eaten by a polar bear? Maybe she got stuck behind her fridge with fire ant farm.

 

[ScottandSam]

Having never used anything else I can't compare. But these do a nice easy rotation compared to others I saw on YouTube. The go in easy enough. I did like was I can take one or two out. And still have the others turning. That worked great for some loose air sacks. Some models you cant do that. I also am able to oncubate the eggs bog end up. Or on there side. From everything i looked at $500 or less. I felt and still think the ovoation 28 ex ws my best bet.
Scott

 

[Honora]

You are not crazy for dis infecting. Be careful not to breath the bleach fumes though. A recent study showed an increase of lung cancer with only one cleaning with bleach a week with hospital workers.

Maybe use something like lysol? Wear a mask though

I used lysol this time and had a great hatch rate! It took a while for the smell to go away though. I was worried the eggs were going to be breathing in fumes so I ran it for a while before I put the eggs in. Best hatch ever but it was probably because they were my own eggs instead of shipped.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I am not a very big drinker but bobs jack daniels bottle is chasing sum of the blues away. hot sticky sweaty nasty oily gritty zitty chitty chitty bang bang. water bottle feeding some of the adult pigs. moma told me there would be daze like dease... who needs firewood?

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I used lysol this time and had a great hatch rate! It took a while for the smell to go away though. I was worried the eggs were going to be breathing in fumes so I ran it for a while before I put the eggs in. Best hatch ever but it was probably because they were my own eggs instead of shipped.

we have a 0% hatch rate last 2 batches. they all died. we put them in the bo fire with the others. kumbaya we sung. We have 96 dozen eggs the generator is chilling... .. phone dont ring no moe.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

After being away a few days, then coming home and feeding the chickens, I have come to the conclusion that I have too many chickens.

My neighbor hates the automatic turners. She says she has much better hatches with turning by hand.

I prefer hand turn. We run still air. I change around and swap areas. Also at candle

 

[ronott1]

we have a 0% hatch rate last 2 batches. they all died. we put them in the bo fire with the others. kumbaya we sung. We have 96 dozen eggs the generator is chilling... .. phone dont ring no moe.

I am so sorry!

I hope you can get it figured out

 

[ronott1]

My neighbor hates the automatic turners. She says she has much better hatches with turning by hand.

I have heard this before but the truth is more likely that she let the eggs go through a cool down cycle. Turning is not that big of a deal actually....It can get you a bit higher hatch rate, but not that much more. That is for adequate turning. Changing to by hand over an auto turner. I am not saying to not turn at all.

Added: turning hundreds of egg by hand is not spectacle. Small hatches yes but big ones? Auto turners will turn the eggs up to 10 or so times a day

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I used lysol this time and had a great hatch rate! It took a while for the smell to go away though. I was worried the eggs were going to be breathing in fumes so I ran it for a while before I put the eggs in. Best hatch ever but it was probably because they were my own eggs instead of shipped.

I am so sorry!

I hope you can get it figured out

 

[mlm Mike]

This is a wonderful solution!

Oh yes, there will be some of that.

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there are dif sizes on the internet and dif prizing should you research overseas

Chicken can live 17 year or more......

Not here they can't.

So, a question for all of you hatchers out there. Currently incubating in a Brinsea Octagon eco. It's completely base model, I don't have the cradle or any other bells and whistles. I've had it for several years and while it works, the built-in water reservoirs are much too large for anything other than lockdown and the metal wire racks used to hold the eggs are nearly worthless to me personally.
It has done the job, but I'm still hand turning eggs (since they often don't fit into the racks well.) So I'm looking into a possible upgrade. Prefer something I can "set and forget" for the most part. I've been looking at the Rcom Max 20 with adding the separated egg tray, but it's pricey. Just thought I would reach out and see if any of you fine folks have any opinions on them or Rcom incubators in general. Thanks!

I use the Brinsea Octogon 20 Advanced with all the bells and whistle to set it and forget it. The Brinsea mini are pretty easy to. Then my didn't even know I set it and don't have to do anything is broody hens. That's my favorite.

I am not a very big drinker but bobs jack daniels bottle is chasing sum of the blues away. hot sticky sweaty nasty oily gritty zitty chitty chitty bang bang. water bottle feeding some of the adult pigs. moma told me there would be daze like dease... who needs firewood?

Hang in there, we're are still praying for you all.