Exciting New Brinsea App Controlled Incubator - Testers Journey!

[casportpony]

I just candled the RCOM's eggs and think there is one viable call duck egg, a few quacker duck eggs (mutt ducks), six Muscovy eggs, a couple of turkey eggs, and a bunch of pea eggs.

 

[2ndTink]

Mine are about 75% breeder eggs, and they were set left to right, so mine which filled the rest were some fresh, some two weeks old. If I recall correctly, of the 10 I pulled out, one was mine, nine were the breeder's.

Several of mine have the date laid noted on them. When I candle I'll try to track location if any quitters (hopefully no quitters!)

 

[casportpony]

Bummer... I just candled a few of them and the embyos appear to be stuck on the side marked with an x. I will leave them on their sides with the O facing up and see if they get unstuck.

 

[ronott1]

Are any of the testers going to use periodic cooling? That is proven to help hatch rates and make the chicks hatch better in general.

It is interesting to me that folks will use safety holes, which can be very bad, but not use periodic hatching that studies show helps a hatch?

Of course I might be missing something. If I were hatching shipped or big goose eggs, I would use periodic cooling...Of course I always use it!

 

[2ndTink]

Are any of the testers going to use periodic cooling? That is proven to help hatch rates and make the chicks hatch better in general.

It is interesting to me that folks will use safety holes, which can be very bad, but not use periodic hatching that studies show helps a hatch?

Of course I might be missing something. If I were hatching shipped or big goose eggs, I would use periodic cooling...Of course I always use it!

I don't use it because I haven't ever read up on it. Can you tell me about your experience with it? I'm curious about it!

 

[ronott1]

I don't use it because I haven't ever read up on it. Can you tell me about your experience with it? I'm curious about it!

It mimics what a hen does when she sits on the egg-- get up a couple of hours a day. It helps with the development, much like misting the eggs. the chicks will be dryer when they hatch and stronger along with increasing hatch rates.

I use it with my brinsea octagon.

Brinsea as a section about it, with links to research: https://www.brinsea.com/t-cooling.aspx

 

[2ndTink]

It mimics what a hen does when she sits on the egg-- get up a couple of hours a day. It helps with the development, much like misting the eggs. the chicks will be dryer when they hatch and stronger along with increasing hatch rates.

I use it with my brinsea octagon.

Brinsea as a section about it, with links to research: https://www.brinsea.com/t-cooling.aspx

Thank you, I'll give it a read and think about trying it. Which eggs to test this on

 

[LydiaB]

I thought cooling was only for waterfowl eggs.

 

[Debbie292d]

Are any of the testers going to use periodic cooling? That is proven to help hatch rates and make the chicks hatch better in general.

It is interesting to me that folks will use safety holes, which can be very bad, but not use periodic hatching that studies show helps a hatch?

Of course I might be missing something. If I were hatching shipped or big goose eggs, I would use periodic cooling...Of course I always use it!

I have not. I have an older Brinsea and I saw the feature on it but assumed it wasn't for chicken eggs as I'd never heard of it, until you. Like @2ndTink, I just don't know enough about it but might give it a whirl on the next batch in Jan/Feb. I'm of the mind that if it's not broke, don't fix it, but perhaps there's still something to be said for giving this a try. I highly doubt it would hurt the eggs, and who knows, maybe it'll help!

 

[ronott1]

I thought cooling was only for waterfowl eggs.

It was verified first for chicken eggs and the water fowl eggs. It works for all bird eggs though.