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Poultry

COLLECTION AND STORAGE OF EGGS
Collection of Hatching Eggs from Hen House
  • Collect eggs at least 3-4 times daily, more often if extremely hot or cold weather.
  • Use clean baskets, plastic or paper flats, cartons.
  • Discard dirty, cracked or mis-shapen eggs.
  • Immediate transfer to egg cool room
  • The cracking of eggs between the time they are laid and set in the incubator should be less than 1%. If the cracks appear in more than 2% of the eggs collected, the collection method is faulty
Choosing Fertile Eggs
  • Selecting fertile eggs is vital for successful incubation. Ensure you have a reliable source, such as a trusted breeder or healthy backyard flock. Choose eggs that are clean, uncracked, and of the appropriate size for the breed.
Sanitation of Hatching eggs
  • Litter floored contain about 20 to 30 times the microbial load than the egg in a wire floor house.
  • To avoid adverse effects on hatchability do sanitization with fumigation or spraying QAC (200 ppm in luke warm water)
Egg Quality  
  • Selecting fertile eggs is vital for successful incubation. Ensure you have a reliable source, such as a trusted breeder or healthy backyard flock. Choose eggs that are clean, uncracked, and of the appropriate size for the breed.
Choosing Fertile Eggs

1) The egg size:  

  • Extremely large and very small eggs
  • Large eggs require more time and less humidity than normal egg to hatch well.
  • Eggs weighing 50 to 55 gm hatch better

2) Shape of egg :  

  • Don’t select abnormal, wrinkled, slightly off shape eggs use  Oval/ normal shape

3) Shell quality :  

  • Cracked, rough, thin shell not preferable for hatching
  • it should be sound with smooth texture and free from body checks, hair cracks, Strong and normal.

4) Clean eggs :

  • Soiling substance seal the pores of the shell interfering in air movement through the shell to the embryo.
  • Dirt also arbor microorganisms rendering eggs more prone to spoilage

5) Shell color :

6) Interior quality :