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[Sylviaanne]

If the electricity goes out, depending on the type of bator you have, you are better off not opening it. Adding hot water bottles after the fact will be difficult to control the temp.

The eggs will survice a few hour outage.

I have an 12V to 110V inverter for a car hooked up to a marine battery (actually a bank of them) for extended outages

Ooo, we have an inverter for a car too! We have several cars that run so if the electric goes out, we could do that. I just have to remember it. LOL

 

[Sylviaanne]

I have had power outages that long and had some eggs survive prior to my back up system.

A styro bator only pulls 40 watts. If you have a PC UPS you can ger a few hours out of it - just wrap the styro in lots of towels to keep the heat in and thus no thave the thermostat turn the heat on as often.

What is a PC UPS?

 

[Teila]

PC UPS = Personal Computer Uninterruptable Power Supply.

Basically, it sits between the power socket and whatever you want to keep running for a shortish period of time when the power cuts. It has a deep cell battery in it which remains charged; depending on the size, it can run a computer (or similar) anywhere from minutes to hours.

The basic idea behind them is that when the power cuts they keep your computer running long enough to save anything you are working on and log off rather than the PC just crashing and losing work.

 

[Lacy Blues]

Ooo, we have an inverter for a car too! We have several cars that run so if the electric goes out, we could do that. I just have to remember it. LOL

Depending on what kind of incubator you have, you can put a permanent note on it to yourself. I have only had hovabators (styrofoam) and I had a dickens of a time remembering what the temperatures and humidity were supposed to be and so I wrote it on the incubator...

"Days 1-18: 99.5 degrees and 50% humidity"
"Days 18-21: 99.5 degrees and 65% humidity"

I have since learned that this much humidity is WAY TOO MUCH for my birds. Anyway, you can make yourself a note on your incubator... "In case of power outage, use the car battery inverter"

 

[ozexpat]

Ooo, we have an inverter for a car too! We have several cars that run so if the electric goes out, we could do that. I just have to remember it. LOL

I have transported eggs that were in the incubator for 15 days to a friends house while in the styrobator.

I took them out of the turner, put them in foam for shipping eggs and drove them 100 miles using an inverter

She had a good hatch rate

 

[Sylviaanne]

I have transported eggs that were in the incubator for 15 days to a friends house while in the styrobator.

I took them out of the turner, put them in foam for shipping eggs and drove them 100 miles using an inverter

She had a good hatch rate

I have seen the packing foam for eggs online. Where did yours come from?

 

[vehve]

 

Sooo, if the electric goes out and I had a way to put hot water in some bottles, it might help? As long as the bottle would be away from the eggs?

If the electricity goes out, depending on the type of bator you have, you are better off not opening it. Adding hot water bottles after the fact will be difficult to control the temp. 

The eggs will survice a few hour outage.

I have an 12V to 110V inverter for a car hooked up to a marine battery (actually a bank of them) for extended outages

But, if the bottles are already in there, they will keep the bator warm longer, since they are storing heat.

 

[Sylviaanne]

That's a good idea. I have been planning on marking my incubators #1 and #2 so an added note won't be an odd thing. Someone named their incubator. LOL

 

[ozexpat]

Gosh its been a long time as I reuse it for shipping overseas.


I found it http://www.texaspoultry.com/foam.htm

The 24 egg size fits 2 to a flat rate box. I get 3 rows in the larger non flat rate box. 3 boxes in a golf bag 216 eggs lol

The shipping on the foam makes it pricey because of its size not weight.

I have several other sizes as well. The 24 hole is good for large and extra large eggs.

There is another supplier that sells white foam with 36 holes that is good for medium eggs. I can't remember if I bought that or I just received eggs in it. I use that often as well but size to eggs.

I like the Texas poultry foam because the holes are off set so you can reverse the second row and the eggs don't put pressure on each other.

If you try and squeeze a large egg into the 36 hole stuff they may crack in shipping from side pressure.

If I wasn't reusing it I would probably ship using cylinders of foam pipe insulation. That's one of the best methods I have seen.

 

[Sylviaanne]

Gosh its been a long time as I reuse it for shipping overseas.


I found it http://www.texaspoultry.com/foam.htm

The 24 egg size fits 2 to a flat rate box. I get 3 rows in the larger non flat rate box. 3 boxes in a golf bag 216 eggs lol

The shipping on the foam makes it pricey because of its size not weight.

I have several other sizes as well. The 24 hole is good for large and extra large eggs.

There is another supplier that sells white foam with 36 holes that is good for medium eggs. I can't remember if I bought that or I just received eggs in it. I use that often as well but size to eggs.

I like the Texas poultry foam because the holes are off set so you can reverse the second row and the eggs don't put pressure on each other.

If you try and squeeze a large egg into the 36 hole stuff they may crack in shipping from side pressure.

If I wasn't reusing it I would probably ship using cylinders of foam pipe insulation. That's one of the best methods I have seen.

LOL I went to save your link and found I already had it. Do you have pictures of the foam pipe insulation? Sounds like the noodles used for swimming.