Egg Cooling during incubation

[enggass]

Can anyone shed some light based on experience of allowing cooling intervals for their eggs during incubation? I have a new Brinsea Ovation on its way for this coming spring, and it supports this feature. Thanks

 

[silkie1472]

I use a brinsea mini advance and I allow a 60 minute cooling period during the incubation until the last two days. Really, I have not seen any changes in hatch rate, but I know that it is what usually happens when my chickens incubate their own eggs.

 

[enggass]

60 minutes daily I assume. Do you do it at the same time daily?

 

[dekel18042]

60 minutes daily I assume. Do you do it at the same time daily?

If I set it automatically it happens the same time and for the same length of time each day. Sometimes I do it manually and allow it to cool from day 8 to lockdown anywhere from half an hour to two hours a day.
Once I went out and forgot it was off and it remained off for over 6 hours with no problem. When I use my own eggs I have close to a hundred per cent hatch rate.

 

[silkie1472]

The cooling does not begin until 24 hours of incubation. On brinsea incubators, the cooling is automatic and lasts as long as you set it. For chickens and turkeys, I set the cooling for 60 minutes a day, and for ducks, I set it for 120 minutes each day. However, if there is a power outage, the cooling resets and will not begin until after another 24 hours.

 

[sueiris]

Can anyone shed some light based on experience of allowing cooling intervals for their eggs during incubation? I have a new Brinsea Ovation on its way for this coming spring, and it supports this feature. Thanks

Here is a link for research - found this on the Brinsea webpage: http://www.epsaegypt.com/pdf/2011_june/15- 1271.pdf