incubator question ???

[toptom]

Toptom: If I read you correctly, what you're asking, is that if you have an incubator full of eggs, and your power is interrupted for 24 hours, will you loose your brood? Is that what you're asking? It all depends on where you are in the incubation process. There is a technique that can be done, where a batch of eggs is started and incubated long enough to see embryonic development. (3 - 4 days, i think) That batch can then be taken out and the next batch started. This allows the non-developing eggs to be removed from each batch, thus ensuring that when the 2 batches are combined, your bator space is maximized with developing embryos. I don't know any one who is actually doing this. Early on in development, incubation can be stopped without damage to embryo's. You'd have to read the studies for all of the details.

Now, here's a follow up to what I think is the question behind your question: "Am I wasting my time trying to hatch eggs if I have frequent power outages?" Not at all if you have a 12 V battery and $29 to spend. You can go to Walmart, and get a power converter. This will hook up to a car battery, or to a cigarette lighter in your car, and convert that 12V to household current. That should give you enough power to weather any outage.

Im just planning to buy one incubator, but knowing that the electricity here in PH is unstable, I might just need to also buy a generator. Sometimes power here goes on and off, like 2 or 3 times in one minute. Oftentimes, a day. I don't like the idea of plugging into my car, I treasure it much.

Thanks for the suggestion, I found it valuable.

Also I'm sure one could buy or construct an incubator with a different power source such as propane maybe?

Im not sure if this method is used in household areas like ours, probably on commercial and industrial ones. I was thinking of a solar power since I would spend just the same for a silent diesel powered generator. And I won't need any fuel, just the sun. Im not just sure how stable it could be.

Mabuhay, toptom, a constant supply of electricity in your country is a challenge. I've been there a couple of times and even if one has power, it may be "brown" meaning, of unknown and inconsistent voltage.

I'd strongly suggest finding a few birds of breeds or varieties known to sit on eggs, to brood eggs. Here, we seek a Silkie/Cochin cross. That mix makes a broody hen that surpassed all mechanical incubators. A couple such broodies and you'd never have to be concerned.

Thanks Fred! Yes that happens here.

I got three silkie hens actually. Each one of them has 5 eggs already. There are 10 eggs already in one nest (2 of the hens like to share a single nest). None of them is getting broody. I tried putting additional eggs from our Philippine native, still no effect. Some eggs are about to get 2 weeks already, I wonder if they would still hatch once set; though I can see that they are being turned from the nest.

 

[bullyfarm]

Well I just candled my eggs for the first time at day 10, I usually skip the earlier candling because it's hard for me to see anything in my colored eggs anyways. I set 42 eggs which is all my turner holds, I pulled out 3 clears, and it looks like maybe 2 quitters but I will leave them in there for now as I don't know for sure. I can see definite veining and the chick swimming around in most of the eggs, there are a couple without movement, I don't know if they are stuck to the side of the shell or what, time will tell how many hatch, but for now I will say the small temp difference from one side of the incubator to the other doesn't seem to have mattered much if at all. This hatch looks pretty promising.

thats good news that they are doing good even with the temp difference

 

[bullyfarm]

Im just planning to buy one incubator, but knowing that the electricity here in PH is unstable, I might just need to also buy a generator. Sometimes power here goes on and off, like 2 or 3 times in one minute. Oftentimes, a day. I don't like the idea of plugging into my car, I treasure it much.

Thanks for the suggestion, I found it valuable.

Im not sure if this method is used in household areas like ours, probably on commercial and industrial ones. I was thinking of a solar power since I would spend just the same for a silent diesel powered generator. And I won't need any fuel, just the sun. Im not just sure how stable it could be.

Thanks Fred! Yes that happens here.

I got three silkie hens actually. Each one of them has 5 eggs already. There are 10 eggs already in one nest (2 of the hens like to share a single nest). None of them is getting broody. I tried putting additional eggs from our Philippine native, still no effect. Some eggs are about to get 2 weeks already, I wonder if they would still hatch once set; though I can see that they are being turned from the nest.

i was going to say why not use sollar pannels that seems to be best long term

 

[tjbuckshotbarn]

pip

 

[tjbuckshotbarn]

24 hours after pip

 

[tjbuckshotbarn]

45 hours after pip. Still not all the way free

 

[toptom]

i was going to say why not use sollar pannels that seems to be best long term

I'll have to consult the local users here since this is a local supplier. Users seem few.

 

[bullyfarm]

45 hours after pip. Still not all the way free

congrats on ur new chick

 

[bullyfarm]

we got 2 chicks over night on day 20 and 6 more starting to come out

 

[blucoondawg]

Good deal mine lock down tomorrow