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Lol. Congrats!

Looks like it's going well. Congrats!

Good luck! After lockdown-before hatch, the air cell draws down significantly so they will probably be ok. Well with the bigger bator turners, the turner's motor gives off significant heat. The corner that the motor was in was showing a two degree difference and when I had a full turner the...

I did and I have. The bator is awesome. Rock steady temps, easy to pull out plastic water well thingy...lol and that picture window is just great. I did my first hatch from my own silkie eggs. Not my normal awesome rates, but not because of the bator. I am still having low fertility yet and I...

I think people are put off the older ones because of convenience. There not set them and forget them incubators. They are touchier to get the temps just right, more prone to the fluctuations of environmental temps. People want digital with thermostat control, less to worry about. Many aren't...

The 9200s weren't bad. A little more work, monitoring/fidgeting, but they were decent little bators. It's the newer digital Little Giants that suck big time.

Fully feathered and used to whatever temps they are being put into. If it's warm out and comparable to the temps they were at in the brooder, your good to go. If it's cold out and they've been at 70 degrees then no.

I've hatched many many chickens, a few guineas, might be trying peafowl this summer, but haven't done ducks yet. But, I have quite a few chicken connections that do ducks, you can find some on my hands on hatching and help thread, and the relatively use the same conditions for their ducks as...

Mine didn't have the vent plugs either, I just didn't use them, and I switched from turner to hand turning on my third hatch, prefer hand turning actually. When I got my Hovabator first thing I did was pull the plug out and threw it in a drawer. I bought my thermometers and hygrometer.

I used mine, well, it was actually borrowed from my sister...lol until the heating element went last fall. One side would heat hotter than the other. I ordered the Hovabator last month and am real happy with my choice. There's not much to these bators, what are you missing? Shipped can be a pain.

I don't count clears in my rates either, except fertility rates of course.

Yup. The air cells in my opinion, is the best way to verify how to adjust humidity.

Yes, heat sinks can help with temps. Mine usually settled around 100-101, and I left it even though it had a fan, cause that knob was touchy..lol, but it would creep up, especially if I wasn't running dry but my water was drying up. And just the fact it was known for spikes kept me on edge...lol

1602N. I know quite a few that have used that bator. My "borrowed" LG's heating element was going, and I wanted the picture window and more stability of the Hovabator. The LG kept me up at night checking temps. With this thing I sleep like a baby. It's so nice to have a bator that holds a steady...

Doing well, thanks for asking. Trying to hatch their eggs now.

Running dry what was your humidity?

The first 17 days. Raising the humidity at lockdown doesn't compromise the progress of hatching, but you really don't want to see condensation either. Did you monitor the air cells at all during incubation? I used an old LG 9200 for 2 1/2 years. It was work, but it did good by me. Just got...

Humidity, usually high, is one of the most common reasons for hatch time deaths. High humidity doesn't let the eggs loose enough moisture. At hatch they often drown because they can't pip into a too small air cell, they pip into the air cell but excess fluid also seeps into the internal pip...

That's an excellent shipped hatch rate. Congrats!

Yeah, I don't like it below that for extended periods of time.