Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[Christie Rhae]

I really like my Brinsea 190 with humidity pump. I hatch in a Hovabotor 1588 to keep the Brinsea cleaner.

I wish there was something in between the Hovabator 1588 and the cabinet incubators... price wise I mean.
Dang I just cannot see spending 700.00 to 1000.00 on an incubator right now, but really want something bigger/better than my styrofoam incubators.

 

[Lesler5]

I have a hen who is supposed to be Ameracauna. I got her and another at 6 weeks old but unfortunately lost the other a couple weeks later. I've been patiently waiting for months for her first egg and it arrived today!!! However, it is more greenish than blue. Does this mean I was sold an EE not a pure Ameracauna? She is black, has a greenish hue in the sun much like my Australorp and her legs are slate colored. I have been a little suspect because there are a few feathers around her neck with flecks of gold in them. Any experts out there care to comment? Thanks!

 

[tennesseeckn]

I wish there was something in between the Hovabator 1588 and the cabinet incubators... price wise I mean.
Dang I just cannot see spending 700.00 to 1000.00 on an incubator right now, but really want something bigger/better than my styrofoam incubators.

I love my Brinsea Advance EX. It is WAY more reliable than my foam bators but didn't cost as much as the big commercial units. When I have to do staggered hatches or hatch a lot of eggs at once, I'll incubate in the foam ones and then use the Brinsea as a hatcher because the humidity levels are so important then.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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Interesting!! I was planning to do it the other way around - use my Brinsea with humidity pump for the early part of incubation to keep the humidity low and steady for the first 18 days then hatch in the styrofoam hovabator because getting high humidity for hatching isn't an issue with the foam.

 

[ChickenLeg]

i wish i owned an incubator -.-

 

[Christie Rhae]

Just did a quick search on the Brinsea EX. It holds 20 eggs? If it is the same one it looks like it is over 500.00. Gosh for that much money a couple hundred more and I could hatch 300 eggs.
I want something that will hatch about 100 eggs and be easy to monitor...and only cost about 300. lol Got that incubator makers of the world?? That is my wish.

I use a hovabator with fan and turners and I have no problems really. Just wanted to be able to hold more eggs. I have two more styrofoam incubators. One has a fan and no turners. I use it for hatching. One has no fan and no turners. Maybe I should just get another set of turners and a fan to install in my fan-less one. Then I could incubate 84 eggs and have the last one with fan installed for hatcher. (I tried hatching without a fan... crazy temperature variation inside the incubator)

I guess that is probably my best bet right now. Maybe someday I will get a fancy incubator. Can't really justify it right now....but if I could..... I would be all over that!!

 

[shesaredroan]

i wish i owned an incubator -.-

ChickenLeg, if you keep hanging out on BYC you'll have one before long!!! LOL I got my first one in the spring of '10 and my second one in spring of '11.
I have 30 bitties peeping in my guest bathroom (now my hatchatorium) right now.
It's SO much more fun to hatch your own than to buy from the feed store. But I did buy from the feed store for the first 8 yrs of my chicken experience.
Best of luck and I'm sure you'll get a bator when the time is right.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

Just did a quick search on the Brinsea EX. It holds 20 eggs? If it is the same one it looks like it is over 500.00. Gosh for that much money a couple hundred more and I could hatch 300 eggs.
I want something that will hatch about 100 eggs and be easy to monitor...and only cost about 300. lol Got that incubator makers of the world?? That is my wish.

I use a hovabator with fan and turners and I have no problems really. Just wanted to be able to hold more eggs. I have two more styrofoam incubators. One has a fan and no turners. I use it for hatching. One has no fan and no turners. Maybe I should just get another set of turners and a fan to install in my fan-less one. Then I could incubate 84 eggs and have the last one with fan installed for hatcher. (I tried hatching without a fan... crazy temperature variation inside the incubator)

I guess that is probably my best bet right now. Maybe someday I will get a fancy incubator. Can't really justify it right now....but if I could..... I would be all over that!!

Christie, just face it, you NEED the cabinet incubator.

(Nothing stopping you from just setting 100 eggs in there - except your own willpower!!!!

)

Just think! You could potentially populate the entire state of Hawaii with Ameraucanas and Marans ....

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Build one. I took a dumped chest-of-drawers, 3 Little Giant heating elements and 3 LG thermostats, a couple of ceramic light sockets, fans, some scrap plywood, and MUCH help from my electrician husband (now he won't even admit to having a hand in it), and turned it into a big incubator/hatcher (incubator holds 512 eggs and hatcher holds 196 eggs). I do have to hand turn and rotate the eggs.

 

[tennesseeckn]

Interesting!! I was planning to do it the other way around - use my Brinsea with humidity pump for the early part of incubation to keep the humidity low and steady for the first 18 days then hatch in the styrofoam hovabator because getting high humidity for hatching isn't an issue with the foam.

It's probably something I'm doing wrong, but I never could get the humidity level up above 40%, even with wet paper towels covering the entire bottom. It was probably more humid outside than it was in the bator!