Poultry farming is considered one of the most profitable and quick payback cases. Therefore, many people begin to engage in this activity. However, inexperienced farmers face many challenges. After reading this article, you will learn why and how eggs are processed with hydrogen peroxide.
What is pre-disinfection for?
We must say right away that this is a really justified necessity. Pretreatment of eggs allows to increase the yield of a healthy livestock and protect the hatched chicks from all kinds of infections. Asymptomatic diseases of adults do not give full shell purity.
In most cases, the causative agents of a particular disease are excreted along with the litter. Also, worm eggs are often present in poultry waste products. This is especially true for waterfowl geese and ducks. It is these birds that pollute eggs with droppings more often than turkeys or chickens.
Home technology
Immediately make a reservation that the processing of eggs with peroxide before laying in the incubator is not the only possible method of disinfection. At home, for such purposes, a solution of potassium permanganate is often used . Water is poured into a previously prepared tank, the temperature of which is about thirty degrees. If the eggs are dipped in a colder liquid, then their contents are simply compressed.
Manganese is added to a basin with warm water and mixed until crystals are completely dissolved. The result should be a deep pink liquid. After that, you can dip eggs into it. This must be done very carefully. Keep them in solution for five minutes. After that, the softened dirt is removed using an old toothbrush, gently lay the eggs on a dry, clean cloth and wait for the water to drain from them. After the processing of the eggs is completed, they can be laid out on cassettes.
Industrial disinfection
In large enterprises, the treatment of eggs with hydrogen peroxide before incubation is widely used. For this, a one and a half percent solution is used. The eggs placed in it are aged there for five minutes. Then they are pulled out, washed in warm clean water and dried.
It is important to ensure that the peroxide solution is slightly hotter than the egg itself. The optimal temperature of the disinfectant is 35-40 degrees. In addition to peroxide, not bad proved themselves to “Persint” and “Desoxon”. Processing should be carried out with utmost care, since there is always a risk of destruction of the film that covers the shell. Such sloppiness can cause clogging of holes that let air through to the nucleus.
General bookmarking guidelines
After the pre-treatment of the eggs is completed, they can be placed in the incubator. Moreover, it is recommended to lay chicken in the evening, duck in the morning. It is advisable to choose eggs of approximately the same size for these purposes.
Before bookmarking, you need to wait until they warm up slightly. Cold eggs should not be placed in an incubator. Otherwise, moisture may begin to collect in the shell. Therefore, after the preliminary processing of the eggs is completed, they should be brought into a warm room, the air in which is heated to 25-27 degrees, and left there for eight hours. At higher temperatures, the embryo may begin to develop abnormally.
It is important that the start of the incubation is quick. The first warm-up should take no more than four hours. For the same reason, the pan is filled with water, the temperature of which is about 40-42 degrees.
Do not place eggs infected with bacterial or fungal infections in the incubator. It is important that all selected specimens have the correct shape. They should not have belts, growths and too fragile shells. You cannot get good offspring from such specimens.
It should also be remembered that only fresh eggs that have been stored for no more than a week are suitable for hatching. The quality of the selected specimens is checked by an ovoscope, allowing to illuminate the shell. Egg age is determined by the state of the air chamber. In specimens suitable for incubation, its size reaches from two to five millimeters.