Selection And Preservation Of The Eggs For Incubation - Borotto REAL Series Instruction Manual

TRANSPORT
ATTENTION: the entire package must be kept for any machine movements.
OPENING THE PACKAGE
To remove the machine:
1) Open the box carefully without damaging it
2) Remove all protective devices from the incubator
3) Check that the package contents include:
- Incubator base
- 2 "DUST STOP" antimicrobial caps to close the water filling nozzles. (ONLY SUPPLIED WITH REAL 49 PLUS)
- Base hatching grid
- Egg tray
- Complete incubator cover
- Automatic egg turning unit (if purchased)
- User manual and purchase receipt
HANDLING THE INCUBATOR
Take the incubator from the package and place it directly on a horizontal surface higher than 500mm. Since its
weight varies from 2.45 Kg to 6.80 Kg (depending on the model), this operation can be carried out by one person.
ATTENTION: the incubator must be lifted from the base only. Do not lift the incubator by applying force on the
clamps, lever, or similar.

8 - Selection and preservation of the eggs for incubation

It is recommended to incubate eggs from one's own farm or neighbouring breeders. Eggs that have travelled for
kilometres with couriers will normally have less than 50% hatching, due to factors of travel stress, vibration,
temperature changes, embryos that have died from asphyxiation, because eggs that are closed inside packaging do
not breathe!
If you have actually taken eggs that have travelled, let them rest on an egg platform for at least 24 hours with the tip
downwards before incubating them.
Choose eggs from parents that are well developed, well fed and healthy.
MANDATORY: The parents must not be inbred
another farm), as they would result in eggs containing weak embryos destined to die in the process of hatching
(the chick grows, but remains trapped inside the egg as it is weak and does not have the strength to break the
shell to hatch), nature is very selective and does not allow vulnerable creatures to be born!
The breeders must be sexually mature, and the males must be present in the right proportions with respect to
females, adhere to the information given in the following table:
Species
Hen
Pheasant
Duck
Goose
Guinea fowl
Partridge
Quail
Turkey
PROPORTION BETWEEN
Male and
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Remember breeders lose most of their fertility after 3 years of age.
(no brothers must be crossbred; the males must always come from
Female
6
4
4
4
2
1 10/12 months
3
8
AGE AT SEXUAL MATURITY
Male
6/8 months
6/7 months
8 months
8 months
8/10 months 8/10 months
10/12 months
60 days
7 months
Female
6/8 months
6/7 months
4 months
7 months
50 days
7 months
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