The WATER you use in incubater ?

[Crower]

I understand that baciteria grows in your incubator which can lower your hatch rate. I have read articles in which some people say to use a antibacterial soap to wash eggs before hatching. My question is as follows. Is slightly clorinated water safe to use in the incubater. Could this perhaps be benifical . I am talking about the water you use to control Humidity. I personaly use well water. I appreciate any feed back .THANKS Crower

 

[dadsdeercamp]

i clean my incubator with bleach water after every hatch with no problems. hatched 11 out of 12 my last hatch

 

[magoochie]

It is my understanding that you do NOT want to wash the eggs.

I believe any water is fine, as long as you do a thorough cleaning after each hatch.

 

[dadsdeercamp]

do not wash your eggs!!! only use the bleach water to clean your incubator

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I wash egg an all hatcherys that I know of do to. Does it make much difference ether way? No I just use hot water to wash the eggs myself. I wash the incubator with 10 to 1 bleach water. I use regular city water for humidity...

 

[gumbii]

you guys totally mis understood the question...



my friend uses RO water on the incubator... we're reefers and have RO/DI units installed for pure H2O... but i'm too lazy, and use tap water... chlorinated too... no biggie... i drink that water too... it's not that bad... but i know some cities put a lot of chlorine and chloramines in the city water... i'd watch out about that stuff... i hear that it evaporates in a matter of minutes, but if it evaporates, it's staying in your incubator in the humidity...



maybe use drinking water, but my bator waste a lot of water during incubation... i dunno how much water you would use... every bator is different...

 

[Tala]

I use tap water. That's what they're gonna be drinking every day of their life with me anyway (except for rain puddles of course) so they might as well get tough early

 

[ND Sue]

Our area has some very hard tap water. So hard that it leaves white sediment if left to evaporate.
So I use RO water. I was even thinking distilled would be a good choice too, but I don't have it on hand so just use the reverse osmosis.
The reason I use RO is so the incubator doesn't have a bunch of mineral sediment on it more so than bacteria.

 

[gumbii]

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made a good point... gonna turn on my RO/DI right now and fill up two gallons or so...

 

[gryeyes]

I'm on well water, which is untreated and VERY hard. I used distilled water in the humidity pumps until I got lazy and used "filtered" water (what I use for cooking, via a Britta pitcher). After several hatches, I noticed the ick in the tubing, and had to replace some of it. I am going back to keeping a gallon of distilled water on hand for the incubators.