For small-scale pheasants farmers, due to the high cost of machine hatching, electric blankets plus water bag incubation and kerosene lamp warm water bag incubation can be used to solve this problem. Details are as follows:
Electric blanket plus water bag hatching method
1. Appliances: electric blankets, water bags (plastic bags), sheets, quilts, beds, thermometers.
2. Set up the bed: Place the electric blanket on the bed first, then place the water bag on the electric blanket, cover the water bag with the sheets, lay the eggs on the sheets, insert the thermometer into the eggs, and put on the quilts.
3. Incubation Management 1 Thermostat: Plug in the power supply so that the temperature of the water bag reaches 40°C. 2 Egg laying: Put the sterilized eggs on the sheets. At this stage, pay attention to controlling the temperature and keep it at 38°C. 3 turn the eggs, cool eggs: 10 hours after the egg began to turn the egg, turn the egg every 3 hours 1, turn the egg angle to 90 °C is appropriate, until 21 days after the stop turning eggs. After one week of incubating, cool eggs are started once a day for about 15 minutes. It is advisable to reduce the temperature of the eggs to 30-33°C, and then warm up again.
4. Tickling: Eggs were hatched for 7 days and 11 days. In a timely manner, no zygote, dead zygote, weak zygote, and dead embryonated egg are discarded.
5. Wait for the hatching 21 days after the egg surface is sprayed with warm water once a day, when there are some chicks clam shell, the temperature can be increased to 39 °C. Chicks that cannot be hatched in time should be artificially assisted.
Kerosene lamp warm water bag hatching method
1. Utensils: Homemade 4 lamp kerosene lamp, water bag, sheets, quilts, thermometer.
2. Position the open wooden box stalls: The size of the open wooden box is determined by the number of eggs. The height is 20 centimeters. In the middle of the wooden box, a square hole of 20 centimeters and 25 centimeters is opened, and a square sheet of metal is nailed. The bottom of the iron sheet is covered with about 5 cm thick ash, surrounded by cotton wool, and then placed on the ash. The kerosene lamp is placed under the iron sheet so that the flame just touches the sheet metal. Control the temperature of the kerosene lamp by controlling the flame size.
3. Incubation management Ibid.