AQUAMAGIC WASHER
AND GRADER
12 CASES PER HOUR
Model
60-CG-67-10-1326L6BL
IDEAL TO WASH
HATCHING EGGS*
AQUAMAGIC WASHER
AND GRADER
12 CASES PER HOUR
Model
60-CG-67-10-1326L6BL
IDEAL TO WASH
HATCHING EGGS*
*This unit is ideal to wash Hatching Eggs.
Here is why. Each egg gets clean water.
Not recirculated contaminated water.
The wash water temperature is about
120 degrees. As the eggs are only
exposed to the high temperature
water for 10-12 seconds in the washer
with the brushes scouring them,
(you can also ad egg wash detergent
if you wish), the eggs then go to the
next section where the drying brushes
continue brushing and the cool air
from the drying fans stops any heat
that may have a threat. Our hatchery
had an Aquamagic and we used it a lot.
Those high dollar hatching eggs
that would have been culled out and
lost can now be saved. We did not
wash all the eggs, just the dirty ones.
For the Hatching eggs, they were first
put into a basket and we scraped them
with a knife, removing any manure
and/or broke egg off of them. Then
they went through the Washer. The
stubborn ones went through sometimes
3 or 4 times till they got clean.
I would then put them into the one
piece trays when they were clean,
and then they were ready for the incubator.
We usually marked the tray with a magic
marker. Some of these eggs usually
had stains left on the shell, so you
could tell them all the way through
the hatchery. From the 132 eggs in
the tray at hatch time, sometime there
would be as many as 6 or 8 explosions,
but sometime there were none.
When the eggs hatched out, you could
see the markings on the eggs and
recognize this was one of the dirty
trays. Sometimes you could tell a
difference in the tray as to how it
hatched and sometimes not. I know
it saved us a big bunch of work and
it sure salvaged thousands and
thousands of hatching eggs that would
have went into the broke eggs without
the Aquamagic. Yes, it paid for its
self several times over. Especially
with the young flocks, with all those
floor eggs and ones with broke egg
on them when the shells got thin. It
made money for us several times over.
When we had surplus eggs, we let
them go on through the grader and
sold them as graded eggs. We
usually kept 5,000 to 8,000 breeders.
This was all before 1992.
I still have the Aquamagic
and it is for sale. The particular
unit pictured come from a
farm producing SPF eggs.
Look how many High Dollar
eggs they saved. The unit pictured
on this page cost $18,000.00 new.
No telling what it would cost now.
Joe Lawing
