Long egg storage times in hatcheries are often unavoidable because of logistics, market conditions, variable order sizes, etc. If these storage times exceed 7 days, however, losses in hatchability and chick quality become inevitable. On top of that, incubation time will increase and post-hatch performance will suffer. Petersime has developed the long-awaited answer to this problem: the BioStreamer™ Re-Store. This incubator warms up the eggs for short periods of time during storage, restoring a significant part of the hatch decrease.
Machine features and benefits
-The BioStreamer™ Re-Store is a 12-trolley machine with a capacity of 57,600 or 64,512 eggs.
-It is equipped with more heating capacity than a BioStreamer™ setter to ensure swift and controlled heating of the stored eggs.
-The BioStreamer™ Re-Store also has an increased number and diameter of cooling coils. As a result, the eggs can be cooled gradually to a temperature level that allows to place the eggs back in the egg holding room without disturbing the temperature there.
-Fertile eggs that are stored for a longer period of time are transferred from the egg holding room to the Re-Store incubator.
-The first phase of the program consists of a gradual warming-up of these eggs from egg holding room temperature to a temperature above the physiological zero. Thanks to OvoScan™, the warming-up can be done in a very precise and controlled way.
-This temperature is sustained during several hours.
-The air temperature inside the Re-Store is gradually lowered again.
-As soon as the eggs reach egg storage temperature, they can be transferred back to the egg holding room.