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Egg Incubation Info: Hatching and Incubation Facilities

1. General Tips About Egg Incubation
2. Waterfowl Considerations
3. Incubating with Surehatch Egg Incubators
4. Incubation Facilities
5. Incubation Temperature
6. Weight Loss During Incubation
7. Turning of the Eggs
8. Ventilation of the Egg Incubator
9. Monitoring Egg Development
10. Hatching Facilities
11. Keeping Records
12. Incubation and Embryology Frequently Asked Questions
13. Incubating Your Eggs
14. Frequently Asked Questions on Candling

Hatching Facilities

• A higher humidity is required for hatching and a separate incubator should be maintained for this purpose. High humidity is very important to avoid the shell membranes drying out, sticking to the chick and being unable to turn properly and push its way out of the shell. Either a still air or a moving air incubator may be used as a hatcher. N.B. frequent opening of the incubator , by lowering humidity, may result in hatching problems. A hatcher with a clear top or panel is useful to allow monitoring of hatching without constant opening of the hatcher.

• Hatchers tend to get dirty rapidly with bits of fluff, shell, etc. Frequent cleaning and sterilization is recommended, preferably after the hatching of each chick or batch of chicks. If chicks are hatching daily, two hatchers may be used, so that eggs may be in one hatcher while the other is being fumigated. If fumigation is not used, hatchers may be disinfected with a disinfectant of suitable efficacy and safety for use with eggs.

• Chicks may be hatched inside individual plastic boxes within the hatcher. This will reduce contamination of the hatcher with fluff, bits of eggshell etc. and also allows easy monitoring of which chick has hatched from which egg.

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