Sunday 10 April 2016

More eggs incubating

I bought a new incubator which turns the eggs automatically, and manages the humidity. 
The other one is fine, but I wondered how much difference it would make to our hatch rates. With quail particularly they have not been great.
We have put a batch in which us half chicken and half quail. The other incubator, the way the eggs are turned means you can only do one size of egg at once. Some of the quail eggs we weren't sure how old they were, so this batch won't necessarily be very conclusive about whether it makes a difference or not.
The little box at the size is the humidity pump, the incubator is on a stand and rocks from size to side slowly several times a dat.

It is a bit dark to see it here, but you set temp and humidity and can also set it to cool the eggs for some time each day to simulate the chicken getting off the eggs to feed!

We have also put on more chicken eggs in the other incubator.


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