BLOWING EGGS
using an aquarium pump
by Larry Stratton
Following a request from an egger on an
easy way to blow quail eggs Larry offered the following description
of his setup.
Make sure the eggs are
room temperature before attempting to blow them. If not you'll
never get them out even if they are only one day old.
Now, I
will give you super advise as what to use for blowing any size egg
from quail to ostrich.
Note: In Australia try K-Mart or
an aquarium shop for supplies. |
At Wal Mart you can pick up a aquarium air pump called the
Aqua Culture for 20-60 gallon / Double Outlet.
Also you'll need three more items to make the connection to
the pump.
One is a roll of tubing to will fit both connections on the
pump, which should be the same size. |
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a two line adapter which has a two line connection on one side
and one connection on the other |
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and a air stem for putting air in a bicycle tire, football,
basketball, etc.
All
the connections use the same size tubing, and everything can
be found at Wal Mart. |
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When
setting the pump up, cut two pieces of tubing about 5 to 6"
long, a pair of wire cutters will do the job nicely with a
clean cut. Fasten the tubing to each outlet on the pump.
Next attach the other ends to the double sided adapter that
has plastic hand turned screws to each line. Then use the
remaining tubing on the single connection on the other side
of the adapter, or if too long cut down as needed.
The last thing attached, is the air stem to the other end of
your tubing coming from the adapter. Once you have the stem
worked into the tubing, epoxy it so there won't be any air
escape, and you have it.
This pump is perfect in air pressure for all eggs from quail,
duck goose, rhea, emu and ostrich. I've had mine for several
years and its still working great. |
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One other piece of advise if
you can get a hold of a IV bag like those used in hospitals
with the complete line hook-up, with on and off shut off
connection and needle on end of plastic line, get one. I got
mine from a Veterinarian here. |
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I'll use it by mixing a Clorox (bleach) solution, (1 part
Clorox to 3 parts water ) in the bag, just make sure your line
is in a off position first. What I do is fill my IV bag with
the solution and hang it on a small nail on the side of the
cabinet just over the right side of my sink in the kitchen,
then run the tubing line down to the sink. Next I plug in my
pump and run it's tubing into the sink. Drill a 1/8" to 1/4"
hole in what ever egg your working on and poke something like
a piece of coat hanger in the egg to break the yolk and you're
ready.
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Also another tip, to keep from having to plug and unplug the
line to the pump, I attached a small on and off switch you can
get at any hardware, home depot, Lowes, etc about 4" or 5 "
from the pump going towards the plug.
This way instead of unplugging and plugging, you just use the
switch, which means you don't have to move from where you are
each time you use it.
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Now
all you do is make sure both lines coming from the pump to
the adapter has both hand screws turned open for air to come through
line. Hold your egg over a bowl or something and turn the pump on,
stick the stem into the hole and whammo, out comes the egg, turn the
pump off.
Once
all the egg is removed I'll turn the tap water on and fill about
half way, shake it around, turn the pump back on and flush out,
again I'll fill about 3/4 full from tap water and shake, then stick
the needle from the IV bag and turn on until full, shut off valve to
IV, turn pump back on and flush out. All through.
Hope
this helps, but know that it will make short time of cleaning 50
quail eggs verses the shop vac. I just cleaned out 22 emu eggs using
this method and it works like a charm. Plus I have over 12 qrts of
egg in the freezer now. If my eggs are fresh I'll save the eggs
whites and yolks, plus I have done 500 quail eggs at a time using
this same method and saved all the eggs whites and yolks for
scrambled eggs, cakes etc. Very good too.
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