Incubators Anonymous

[serama hen]

how do i clean the top of the incubator with all the cords and what not.

 

[ChickNmamma]

how do i clean the top of the incubator with all the cords and what not.

It should need much cleaning - just a quick wipedown. Hopefully the chicks didn't get it too dirty. Look for anything stuck and take it off.

 

[serama hen]

ok.

 

[serama hen]

I think ill try hatching button quails next.

 

[ChickNmamma]

I think ill try hatching button quails next.

Can you at least wait until you are finished hatching the ducks this time?

 

[Megan Amber]

Can you at least wait until you are finished hatching the ducks this time?

LOL!! Yeah that would be a good idea!

 

[Arielle]

Quote: That's when I made another incubator!!

 

[Flowerbh]

I am sorry.

Make sure you have everything ready to clean it before you take the eggs out, you will want to do it quickly enough that the eggs don't cool off too much.

If you go back further in this thread somebody else described what they did to clean their incubator when they had an issue very close to yours, except their ducks were actually hatching .. I can't recall exactly what they did. Maybe they will come and post it.

I used to use warm soapy water, scrub it out and spray it with a 10% solution of bleach water and let it dry - but that would take too long and I don't know if the bleach water would hurt the embryos.

I would either use clean hot soapy water or a hydrogen peroxide /water mix. The peroxide won't hurt anything but kills germs. Also add a copper penny to any wells of water to keep it from producing more bacteria. Good luck

 

[Duck Drover]

I bought two dozen Orpington eggs to hatch and when I candled there are 16 clear and 8 developing. They have been in the incubator long enough that the clears are definitely clear. What I don't know is if they are infertile or something happened to the eggs before they could begin to develop. The breeder has had high fertility so I wonder if something went wrong. If I had done something to kill the eggs before they began to develop, would it be possible to have one third developing while two thirds did not develop? I don't know of anything that would have killed some eggs and not all of them. I am not new at hatching so I can't think of what I could have done different with this batch.

 

[Flowerbh]

I bought two dozen Orpington eggs to hatch and when I candled there are 16 clear and 8 developing. They have been in the incubator long enough that the clears are definitely clear. What I don't know is if they are infertile or something happened to the eggs before they could begin to develop. The breeder has had high fertility so I wonder if something went wrong. If I had done something to kill the eggs before they began to develop, would it be possible to have one third developing while two thirds did not develop? I don't know of anything that would have killed some eggs and not all of them. I am not new at hatching so I can't think of what I could have done different with this batch.

My first thoughts would be that they were infertile. Were these eggs sent by way that they may have been x-rayed? That can kill embryos. Also excessive heat or cold and possibly high altitude.