Incubator water idea for healthier chicks!

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Had a great idea! These minerals I normally put in chicks water after they hatch but I realized if I put them in the incubator water they’ll absorb them while they are in the eggs, they’ll probably have less of a chance of deformities and they’ll be much stronger, probably would lay better eggs in the future!
I’m not positive it’ll work but it sounds like it should work seeing as they absorb the water anyways.
In Alaska I can find these everywhere but I’m not sure for other states, could probably find them online if you can’t in a store.

 

[NatJ]

Had a great idea! These minerals I normally put in chicks water after they hatch but I realized if I put them in the incubator water they’ll absorb them while they are in the eggs, they’ll probably have less of a chance of deformities and they’ll be much stronger, probably would lay better eggs in the future!
I’m not positive it’ll work but it sounds like it should work seeing as they absorb the water anyways.

I do not think that will work.

Eggs in the incubator are not absorbing water. They are losing water, all through incubation. That is why the air cell gets bigger: water is evaporating from the egg.

More humidity in the incubator means the egg does not lose water as fast, but it does not add any water to the egg.

Water evaporates, but minerals do not. So even if you add minerals to the water in your incubator, the will not evaporate and be in the air there. The minerals will just stay in the place where you put the water, and will dry there and make a mess. If you have tap water with very many minerals in it, even they can dry and build up (which is a reason for some people to use distilled water in their incubators, because distilled water does not have any minerals.)