We have 3 cabinet incubators and 2 hatchers and the most that I ever payed for one was $175.00 and that was for the Dickey all 3 have turners that work I paided $150.00 for the GQF and $100.00 for the Leahy, We go to auctions and find them pretty cheap sometimes.
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i need to move to the south up here we have no poultry auctions we put up alot of adds on craigslist astuff like that we had 2 people try to sell us them for 700 hahahaha i told them a new one is 500-600 hahahaha i will start looking for auctions around here i think they do one at uconn once a year.
I incubated 54 peacock eggs last year,,hatched out 40 of them. 7 of the 14 that didn't hatch were clear when broken open. I won several auctions off e-bay from Park Hollow Exotics in Iowa,,,I always tried to locate eggs withing 300 miles or less from me. I have a Brinsea 190 EX,,have it set on 99.6 degrees,,turner is set for every 180 minutes,humidity is on 45% the entire time,and eggs are placed pointy side down. I stop turning them 2 days before hatch and move the entire tray to the botom shelf.
I have found if the peachick does pip the egg,and takes longer than 24 hours to emerge,,it will have splayed legs or crooked toes,or both,maybe it's just my luck,but every single peachick that took longer needed taped toes and tied legs for 2-3 days,then they were fine.