how do you Clean an incubator?

[guinea fowl galore]

How do you properly clean an incubator?
I have just spent heaps of money buying eggs and the last thing I want is them all dying of some bacterial infection.

 

[Festa X11]

We disinfect our incubators with a mild bleach solution, after cleaning any debris with as hot water as you can safely use. Any electrical components are obviously not be get get wet, however I clean the fan etc with kitchen paper damped with the bleach too. I then leave the whole thing open to the air, to air dry until the bleach smell has dissipated.

Good luck with your incubation. What eggs do you have to set?

 

[guinea fowl galore]

what is the bleach solution?

So far I have Washed the bottom half with dishwashing liquid and hot water and I was going to wash it with bicarb soda and vinegar then wipe over it with metho.

I am setting light sussex, silkies, silver penciled wyandotte bantams, silver laced wyandottes, australorps and heaps of others that a friend wants me to hatch out.

 

[Festa X11]

We use 2 cap fulls of normal household bleach to a gallon of very hot water. Or you could use baby bottle sterilising solution just follow directions on packet.

Nice mix of eggs, we currently have Pekins, mixed colours of silkies that a friend gave us to try, some of our own silkies and some silkie frizzle cross from a pullet we hatched last year. All in all 41 eggs

 

[guinea fowl galore]

Thank you so much. hopefully the incubator will be clean and running ready for me to put the eggs in on tuesday.

Oh and ours, all in all, are around 100 eggs

 

[Mahonri]

I did the procedure as mentioned with the hot water... then just before I sat them this time, I used some Cholorox disinfecting wipes over the entire thing once again. .. and waited for that to dry. Then I put water in and fired up the bator.

 

[guinea fowl galore]

Would metho work instead?

 

[FluffyColor]

I use disinfecter wipes and a cleaning solution, then wash it out with hot water.