Cobb Breeder Control Information: Egg dealing with

12 September 2024

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Editor’s observe: This newsletter is an excerpt from the Cobb Breeder Control Information and further articles will apply. The Information was once designed to focus on important components which are perhaps to persuade flock efficiency. The control suggestions mentioned have been advanced in particular for Cobb merchandise. The suggestions are meant as a reference and complement for your personal flock control abilities to be able to follow your wisdom and judgement to acquire persistently excellent effects with the Cobb circle of relatives of goods. To learn or obtain your entire Information or to view Cobb’s different control guides, click on right here.

Most hatchability and chick high quality can most effective be accomplished when the egg is held beneath optimal stipulations between laying and surroundings within the incubator. As soon as laid, its hatching doable can at perfect be maintained, no longer stepped forward. If mishandled, hatching doable will temporarily go to pot.

• Handbook nests will have to be neatly maintained with blank shavings. Any droppings, damaged eggs and dirty subject material should be got rid of promptly from the nests and changed with blank contemporary nest subject material. In early manufacturing hens will have a tendency to scratch the shavings out if nests are over crammed. Hens like to make a concave sort nest form which may also be performed when shavings are positioned within and can make the nest extra inviting for the hens.
• Common strolling during the flock after onset of lay (level of lay) is a excellent control option to reduce ground eggs. Strolling the flock will disturb birds which are searching for nesting websites at the muddle or within the corners of the home and inspire them to make use of the nest bins.
• Egg temperatures inside the nest, specifically all over sizzling climate, might be very similar to the ones in an incubator. Subsequently, eggs should be often accumulated and cooled right down to garage temperatures (21 to twenty-five °C ; 70 to 77 °F) to sluggish pre-incubation and embryo construction. This may occasionally cut back embryonic mortality and enhance hatchability.
• Egg assortment from mechanical nests will have to be timed to stop the danger of pre-incubation. The morning will have to be used to assemble hatching eggs, and the afternoon can be utilized for space and fowl control, as neatly as upkeep/repairs.
• Wash arms earlier than and after every egg assortment, and earlier than and after dealing with ground eggs.
• Hand accumulate eggs a minimum of 4 instances day-to-day and all over height manufacturing sessions six collections are really useful.
• At all times deal with eggs sparsely to stop cracks. Eggs will have to be accumulated in plastic or fiber trays. When sporting by way of hand, egg trays will have to be stacked and carried at a most of three tiers top.
• Don’t use baskets or buckets as they motive cracked and infected eggs.
• With mechanical programs, don’t permit eggs to acquire on assortment tables. Regulate the machine to a pace that permits egg creditors to paintings very easily.
• In handbook nests, when gathering eggs, shut the decrease nests earlier than the ultimate spherical of egg assortment and depart the higher nests open. On the ultimate assortment, shut the higher nest to assist care for cleaner nest stipulations.
• With the mechanical group nest, open the nests 1 hour earlier than the lighting fixtures are grew to become on and shut the nests 12 hours after the lighting fixtures are grew to become on.
• Use of ground eggs decreases hatchability and is a hygiene possibility. By no means put ground eggs into nest bins. Gather, pack and obviously determine ground eggs one after the other from nest eggs. If ground eggs can be incubated, they will have to be incubated and hatched in machines devoted for ground eggs.

Computerized egg packers – Key issues and issues

Many huge father or mother inventory operations with group nest programs are additional automating the farms by way of connecting the homes with a centralized egg packer.

• Centralized egg packer machines have a spread of hatching egg (HE) assortment capacities. A ten,000 HE/hour gadget is thought of as enough capability for a 30,000 to 40,000 father or mother inventory farm. A fifteen,000 HE/hour gadget is appeared as enough capability for a 60,000 to 70,000 father or mother inventory farm.
• All egg packing paintings will have to be finished in round 4 to five hours on a daily basis. Use the egg packer most effective as soon as in keeping with day to reduce machine put on if the egg belts general 50 cm in width and there’s a separation between the two egg belts. If the egg belts don’t seem to be separated and are smaller (most effective 20 cm extensive) imagine, at least, 2 to three egg collections in keeping with day to scale back eggshell cracks and micro fractures. On this case, eggs will have to be packed 2 to three instances an afternoon and positioned at once within the egg garage room.

• The egg packer gadget can position the eggs in a carton or at once on hatchery trays, relying at the degree of automation.
• Be sure the right kind egg identity stamps are to be had, particularly for export merchandise.
• Egg trays (30 to 150 eggs) may also be crammed on website (egg tray stacking).
• Egg packers might perform without or with egg tray stacking.
• Paper egg trays should be dry and saved in a dry room for the simple separation all over the packing procedure.
• The presence of many small feathers and grimy eggs signifies the nests don’t seem to be last or last too overdue.
• Use a excellent mild supply (heat mild) on the packer to verify all hairline cracks are got rid of.
• Upkeep groups want to lubricate all transferring portions on a weekly foundation.
• Paintings spaces will have to all the time be saved blank.

Egg assortment timing

Egg assortment timing given this is proven for instance. Egg belt speeds are adjustable and the producer of the egg assortment apparatus can give extra knowledge on adjusting egg belt speeds and timing. The next idea can most effective be used when the home temperature is beneath 22 °C (72 °F) to stop pre-incubation of eggs at the egg belts. Since every space is accumulated in collection, the time assortment begins in successive properties is behind schedule by the point essential to assemble the former space (see representation beneath). For instance, the furthest space assortment begins 7 hours after lighting fixtures on. The second one space will start assortment 45 mins later with an extra 5 mins for eggs that are at the belt to transport previous the following space (i.e. 7 h 50 min after lighting fixtures on). When the 3rd space begins gathering eggs, the entire time from the beginning of lighting fixtures grew to become on is now 8 h and 40 min. For successive properties, on the subject of 100 % of the day-to-day manufacturing can be at the belt on account of the timing. In most cases, eggs within the first and 2d properties are being accumulated whilst manufacturing continues. On this case, those properties can nonetheless include as much as 10 % of the day-to-day manufacturing after the primary assortment. Subsequently, after the primary assortment from all of the properties, a 2d assortment starts with the primary and 2d space. All over this 2d assortment, lots of the day-to-day egg manufacturing will have to be accumulated. Because the first space was once accumulated earlier than all eggs have been laid, a 2d spherical of assortment can be performed by way of expanding the belt pace to assemble all eggs in 10 to12 mins.

An instance of egg packer arrange and timing

Lighting are grew to become on at 3:00 AM and belts are grew to become on 7 hours later starting with space #1 (furthest from the egg packer).

Egg belt speeds

• When the home temperature is beneath 22 °C (72 °F) (to stop preincubation of eggs at the egg belts) get started the egg packer 7 hours after the lighting fixtures come on and lots of the manufacturing is at the belt. That is most effective possible with group nests that experience 2 belts of 25 cm (10 in) extensive and a separation between the belts to reduce hairline cracks.
• At all times get started selection of the HE with the furthest space. A 100 m (330 toes) lengthy space would require about 45 mins to convey all of the eggs to the connector belt.
• A 100 m (330 toes) hall collector belt would require ±20 mins to convey all the eggs to a central packer when all belts are at a hard and fast pace.
• Stay a number of meters between the ultimate eggs of 1 space and the primary eggs of the next space to trace particular person space manufacturing.
• Set up of an egg counter at every space belt go out, earlier than the eggs move at the connector belt, is a superb follow.
• After the primary assortment from all of the properties, as 2d assortment start with the primary properties that also have some eggs left at the space belts.
• All over the second one assortment, lots of the day-to-day egg manufacturing will have to be accumulated (>99 %).
• Within the first 8 hours after the lighting fixtures come on, greater than 90 % of the hatching eggs may have been produced by way of the birds.

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