🍃August Hatch-a-Long🍃

[aliciaplus3]

2 weeks till hatch! Still have some in the 360 incubator too.

 

[Climax]

I have to chime in here. What is the environment you will have the incubator in? The recommended one (I sent back two of them) because they wouldn't hold temp in my 60ish degree basement. So if you are going to have them in a household temp room 75+ degrees. I agree with FortCluck. If not, don't do it.

Yes it will indeed be indoors, might I ask why the lower temperature would cause you to send it back though?

 

[Vantic]

Yes it will indeed be indoors, might I ask why the lower temperature would cause you to send it back though?

Sure, with very little insulation and a heating element that requires the ambient temp to be above a set level to function correctly it wasn't the right one for me. To say it another way, I had it turned up to 103 degrees on its thermostat (the max), but it only got the inside of the incubator to 94, which is too low for incubation, because of my 60-degree room.

I had a lot of recommendations on how to fix it (like put a towel over it). That wasn't what I was looking for, I want an incubator that gets to temp, holds it without the rooms ambient temp being something or me needing to add insulation (which will restrict airflow (so bad)).

Hope that helps. Unfortunately, I can't recommend another as I made my own.

 

[kelseyk]

I am looking to buy an incubator for hatching chicken eggs, pheasant eggs, and duck eggs.
Preferably:
Automatic egg Turner
Accurate thermometer
Forced air
Under 300$
Reasonably good hatch rate

I hope I can join you all for the hatch along next spring

I have 3 Hovabotor 1602N incubators - 2 that I use as incubators and one that I use as a hatcher. I have a horizontal roller in one and bottomless egg cartons in the other for my poor shipped eggs. They are somewhere around $150. I got mine from incubatorwarehouse.com - the first one I got as a kit to get the roller and it came with a thermometer/hydrometer (I paid for the upgraded one).

 

[kelseyk]

2 of the isbar/silverudds were pipped last night and hatched out by this morning. I candled the remaining 2 and found no movement and no veins at all, so thinking they quit.

 

[FortCluck]

I have to chime in here. What is the environment you will have the incubator in? The recommended one (I sent back two of them) because they wouldn't hold temp in my 60ish degree basement. So if you are going to have them in a household temp room 75+ degrees. I agree with FortCluck. If not, don't do it.

My house is 67 at all times. I have had great luck with mine, but maybe it’s just me.

 

[Vantic]

My house is 67 at all times. I have had great luck with mine, but maybe it’s just me.

I don't know, maybe they don't like me. I know others that have it and they put towels/blankets/etc on them to "help them". I am glad that they work for you.

 

[Vantic]

Three hatched so far:. Two CCL and the original BBS Maran on the right. New zip is sick of the three of them messing with it and at the bottom of the pic a malposition that I checked on, it is still chewing.

 

[FortCluck]

I don't know, maybe they don't like me. I know others that have it and they put towels/blankets/etc on them to "help them". I am glad that they work for you.

I just have the touch

 

[FortCluck]