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

@Akrnaf2
I don't have a place where I can achieve 70-80C for a big cabinet incubator. I don't have an oven that big.
I don't even have a working furnace upstairs any more. One of my furnaces bit the dust and it hovers in the high 50s F up there now. Thank goodness winter is almost over. My downstairs furnace is on its last legs. I just paid $265 to have it repaired and he had to steal parts of the dead one to do so.
The circuit board and gas valve were shot and would cost $1000 to repair and he said there is no way he'd invest that much money in such an old unit.
They were high dollar Ruud furnaces that lasted 30 years so I guess I can't complain. But replacements will be $3500 each installed with 10 year warranties.
It was 2F Monday morning but we're going to have much improved weather from here on out.
The lower level heat rises up the two stairways to keep the upstairs from getting too cold and I have space heaters in the bathroom and bedroom.
I'll wait till fall to replace the dead furnace then hope I get another year out of the other one and replace it when it dies completely.
And to think, a month ago I was considering one of those insurance policies that cover appliances, heating and cooling systems.
 
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I've got my answer.
I just got off the phone with Guillermo at Bio-Cide International. He explained that it would basically be the same mixture as when disinfecting a poultry house as long as the incubator is empty.
You want to achieve a 500 ppm available chlorine dioxide.
For that you place 3.25 ounces of Oxine concentrate into a clean plastic pail.
Add 10 grams of citric acid activator crystals (or any food grade citric acid of no less than 99% purity)
Wait about 5 minutes (citric acid crystals will be dissolved)
Add this solution to 1 gallon of water. Put that in a sprayer and saturate all surfaces, close it up including air vents, turn on the fan and let it do its thing.
The chlorine dioxide is gassing off and that should be good enough to sanitize all the parts one can't reach.
The gas is harmful to breathe so you need to use a NIOSH/OSHA respirator approved for chlorine dioxide gas.
ETA
I just got more information from Grainger for chlorine dioxide gas and the cartridges on the respirator need to be AG or acid gas type.


He said you can also do it with eggs in the incubator but with a 200ppm concentrate, so the numbers will need to be adjusted.

Oxine sanitizer will kill all bacteria, virus and fungus.
It is relatively safe and can even be used to disinfect livestock water supply.
 
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have kits! :bun Late yesterday or last night Bonnie Bunny had her kits. I'm waiting until tomorrow to get a count (and pictures) so she has some time to calm down. She's not unfriendly, but she's not a big fan of being handled and she still wanted lots of pets and 'good job, momma's this morning. I don't want to risk her possibly killing the babies because I'm hanging around the cage too much today.

When I went out to feed them this morning I was greeted by a huge ball of hair in the nest. You can occasionally see them moving around, but I did stick my hand in there just to confirm I wasn't seeing things. I'm super excited since it's taken me a year to get them to breed and apparently the only thing that worked was sticking Trip in the cage for months because that darn wild rabbit let him out of his cage and broke the latch. He's back in his own cage as of a week ago.
 
I'm still around; just hanging back "copying the mail"
Spent 6 days in the hospital fighting the flu; almost beat me, literally. Gained a pacemaker for my trouble.
:hugs
Glad you are ok now :hugs

Something tells me you were trying to tough it out
OK so I've been through all the information on the first page and as good as it is, I couldn't find any help on using Oxine to sanitize a cabinet incubator.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/using-oxine-to-disinfect-incubators-and-hatchers.1295287/
Any ideas?
Maybe I'll call the company that makes it.
is that what @duluthralphie uses?
Or maybe it's @casportpony

Happy Birthday @daxigait
 
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Gotta add this to the smiley library!
 

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