8.Transfer

Transfer

Take care to prevent excessive cooling, warming, and any damage to the eggs during transfer from setter to hatcher. Carry out the transfer quickly but carefully. This moment is also a good time to collect useful data about the incubation process so far, which will help you predict hatchability. Make sure the setter is in transfer mode, otherwise the machine will respond to the doors opening by Transfer must be handled quickly and smoothly, to avoid the eggs cooling down. Cooling delays copyright protected hatching. So, empty the setter gradually, and avoid starting to heat and humidify, or the alarms will be putting all the trolleys in the corridor at once. The activated. This is especially important if there are eggshell cools quickly, but the contents cool less still trolleys in the setter. rapidly. As soon as a trolley with incubated, and therefore heat-producing eggs (+/- 150 W/1,000 eggs) is Causes of embryonic mortality up to day 18: removed from the setter, the ones in the lower tray cool down and those at the top of the trolley are • Genetic defect warmed up by the rising heat. These conditions • Poor hatching egg quality (abnormal eggshell or shape) must not continue for too long because embryos • Residual formalin vapour after disinfection can barely regulate their temperature. A couple • Infected hatching egg of degrees too warm is more damaging at this • • Incorrect storage/rough egg handling Insufficient turning stage than being a little too cold. So, in view of • Incorrect temperature or moisture content overheating or excessive cooling, fast and smooth • Insufficient ventilation (excessive CO2) transfer is the essence of the task here.