Only when eggs are laid and incubated under optimal conditions can they achieve high hatching ability and good quality of chicks. Once a hatching egg is laid, its hatching potential can only be maintained and cannot be increased. If not handled properly, the incubation potential will rapidly decline.

oneArtificial egg nests should keep the shavings clean. Feces, broken eggs, and dirt must be promptly removed from the egg nest and replaced with clean fresh egg nest padding. In the early stages of egg laying, if the egg nest is overfilled, the hen tends to scrape off the shavings. Hens like to make a concave egg nest, so when adding new shavings, they can make a concave egg nest, which is more attractive to hens to enter.

2. After laying eggs (at the beginning of laying), frequently moving around in the flock is a good management technique that can reduce the number of ground eggs. Walking around the flock of chickens can disturb those who are searching for egg laying points or egg nests in the corners of the house. Encourage them to use egg boxes.

3. The temperature of the egg in the nest, especially in hot weather, may be similar to the temperature inside the incubator. Therefore, it is necessary to regularly collect hatching eggs and cool them to storage temperature (21-25 ° C) to slow down pre hatching and embryo development. This will reduce embryo mortality and increase hatching rate.

4. The collection time of eggs in the mechanical automatic egg nest should be well controlled to prevent the risk of pre hatching. We should concentrate on collecting eggs in the morning and use the afternoon for house management and chicken flock management, as well as maintenance and upkeep work inside the house.

5. Wash hands before and after collecting eggs and handling ground eggs.

6. Collect eggs manually at least 4 times a day, and it is recommended to collect 6 times during peak production periods.

Be careful when handling eggs to prevent cracking. Eggs should be collected in plastic or paper trays. When transporting by hand, the egg trays should be stacked, but each time they are transported, an additional 3 layers should be added.

8. Do not use baskets or buckets to collect eggs, as they can cause the eggs to rupture and contaminate.

9. For mechanical egg collection systems, do not let the eggs pile up on the collection platform. Adjust the system to a speed that allows egg collectors to work comfortably.

10. If using an automatic collective egg nest, it is necessary to open the nest 1 hour before turning on the light and close it 12 hours after turning on the light.

Using ground eggs can reduce hatching capacity and pose hygiene hazards. Do not put ground eggs in the egg box. Separate the ground eggs from the nest eggs, collect and package them separately, and clearly label them. If you want to hatch ground eggs, they should be hatched and hatched in the ground egg machine.

Egg automatic collection and packaging machine - key points and precautions

Many large parent breeder chicken farms that use mechanical centralized egg nest systems further automate the farm by connecting the chicken houses with centralized loading machines.

The collection capacity of different specifications of egg packaging machines varies. A machine with 10000 types of eggs per hour is sufficient to meet the needs of breeding farms with a stock of 30000 to 40000. A machine with 15000 eggs per hour is sufficient to meet the needs of 60000 to 70000 parent breeding farms.

All egg packaging work should be completed within 4-5 hours every day. If the total width of the egg ribbon is 50 centimeters and there is a gap between the two egg ribbons, only use the egg packaging machine once a day to reduce system wear and tear. If the egg strips are not separated and have a small width (only 20 centimeters wide), consider collecting at least 2 to 3 eggs per day to reduce cracking and microcracks in the eggshell. In this case, the eggs should be packaged 2-3 times a day and placed directly in the egg storage.

The egg packaging machine can place the eggs into cardboard boxes or directly onto incubation trays depending on the degree of automation.

Ensure that the egg identification stamp is correct, especially for exported products.

Egg trays (30-150 eggs per tray) can be used for on-site egg loading (egg trays stacked).

The egg packaging machine can operate with or without egg tray stacking.

Paper egg trays must be dry and stored in a dry room for easy separation between the two layers during the packaging process.

If there are many small feathers and dirty eggs, it indicates that the egg nest has not closed or closed too late.

Use a good light source (warm light) at the packaging machine to ensure that all eggs with capillary cracks are removed.

The maintenance team needs to lubricate all moving parts on a weekly basis.

The workspace should always be kept clean.

Egg collection time

The egg gathering time given here is presented as an example. The speed of the egg conveyor belt can be adjusted, and the manufacturer of the egg collection equipment can provide more information about adjusting the speed and time of the egg conveyor belt.

The following concept can only be used when the house temperature is below 22 ° C to prevent pre hatching of eggs on the belt. Due to the fact that each chicken coop is collected in order, the start time of the next coop's collection will be delayed due to the time required to collect the previous coop (as shown in the figure below). For example, the collection of distant chicken coops begins 7 hours after turning on the lights. The second chicken coop will start collecting in 45 minutes, with an additional 5 minutes for the eggs on the egg belt to pass through the next coop (i.e. 7 hours and 50 minutes after turning on the lights). When the third chicken coop started collecting eggs, it had already been 8 hours and 40 minutes since the lights were turned on. For continuous chicken coops, due to time constraints, nearly 100% of the eggs laid on the same day will be carried on the egg belt.

Normally, while production continues, the eggs from the first and second chicken coops are also collected. In this case, after the second collection, the eggs in these chicken coops can still account for 10% of the daily production. Therefore, after the secondary collection of all chicken coops, a second collection will begin for the second chicken coop. During this second collection period, the majority of the daily production should be collected. Since the chicken coop has already collected all the eggs before they lay, the second round of collection can be carried out by increasing the belt speed, and all the eggs can be collected within 10-12 minutes.

Egg speed

When the temperature inside the house is below 22 ° C (to prevent pre hatching of eggs on the egg belt), start the machine after turning on the lights for 7 hours. At this time, most of the eggs planted on the day will be on the egg belt. Only an automatic collective egg nest with 2 25 centimeter wide straps and a certain distance between the straps to reduce capillary cracks in the eggs is feasible.

Always start collecting eggs from distant chicken coops. A 100 meter long chicken coop takes about 45 minutes to deliver all the eggs to the external connecting conveyor belt.

A 100 meter long corridor collects egg belts. When all egg belts run at a fixed speed, it takes about 20 minutes to deliver all the eggs to the central packaging machine.

Maintain a distance of a few meters between the last egg in one chicken coop and the next egg in the next coop to track the production status of each coop.

It is a good practice to install an egg counter at the exit of each chicken coop conveyor belt before the eggs reach the outside egg belt.

After completing the collection in all chicken coops, it is important to note that there will still be one chicken coop left on the conveyor belt as the seed eggs for the second round of collection. During the second egg gathering period, the majority of daily egg production (>99%) should be collected.

Within the first 8 hours after turning on the lights, the breeder chicken lays over 90% of its eggs.