Borotto Automatic REAL 24 for shipped eggs?

[Erba]

I let it run all night with my second heat and humdiity sensor, all good and really accurate heat, like 0.1 difference. I'd like to get the humidity to 45% though. Might put a spash of water in the second chamber and see if that works. Or do you think 40% is good and they designed the first chamber like that?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I think 40% is good to start.
However, I would put some water in all reservoirs as a test to see how high you can potentially get it before you put eggs in.

 

[Erba]

The reservoir kind of sucks the water in, so you don't know if it is full or not, so I added more. and It's up to 44% now, having just came home from work. So great news! Good idea with testing the max humidity, i will do that. I haven't put the turner on yet, but I will do that today, and see if the motor has any effect on the over all readings before I yank the humidity up.

 

[Erba]

Ok I filled all the water compartments and have 64% humidity and that is showing on 2 seperate hygometers so I think that is max and very accurate. Last shipped egg hatch I raised it to 55% and it shot up to 80% when the first chick pipped and hatched, so I am ok with the 64% max on the Borotto.

The other thing, I was thinking because I read somewhere, it is always better to have your incubator full. So i ordered 20 eggs and he normally sends a spare. That makes 21 and I was thinking about filling it up to the max with my own three eggs. If I get some duds I can always add more of my eggs. If more quit, more eggs, or am i being crazy now?

 

[DuckYouMan]

This thing is supposed to be the super car of home incubators. Ordering one myself right now. Let me know how it goes. Really happy to hear that the sensors are extremely accurate.

Are you talking about staggered hatching? That can be a mess sometimes, but I've found the way to make it easy is to write down all the lockdown dates on my computer and mark the shells with a liquid chalk. Then I know exactly which ones to take out when. I used another incubator for the hatching when I'm staggering.

 

[Erba]

Yeah, would be awful hard to track them. I think I'll stick to the three that I will put in with the shipped eggs, sort of like a control group, and company in the worst case. Breeder sent me an email, my eggs are on their way! So soon I'll be test driving this super car of incubators, LOL I was looking at their 16 egg incubator today, I wouldn't mind having that one too!

 

[DuckYouMan]

It is hard to track them, but the worst part is having the turner on when they hatch and I dont catch them. That thing easily kills chicks. If only they made an incubator that could auto turn without needing to be taken out for hatching. That's the only thing that is standing in the way. Otherwise, keeping a schedule makes it a lot easier to do it.

 

[Erba]

You cam actually unplug the turner on the Borotto, and take sections of it out, which is cool. I saw a video of a guy that let them hatch in it, by mistake. It was obviously not turning though. So theoretically you could lay some eggs down and turn some, not that I'm going to do that.

 

[Erba]

My eggs arrived today with one cracked and one with a small hole that I patched with beeswax. He sent a spare, so 20 will be going in with four of my own. They are in worse shape than the first 20 he sent. If I am seeing right, a lot with rolling air cells

So as the Borotto takes one hour to turn from 45° on one side to the other at iside 45° should I turn them, even with rolling air cells? @ChickenCanoe

 

[DuckYouMan]

You cam actually unplug the turner on the Borotto, and take sections of it out, which is cool. I saw a video of a guy that let them hatch in it, by mistake. It was obviously not turning though. So theoretically you could lay some eggs down and turn some, not that I'm going to do that.

Unfortunately, thats not really viable either as its the turner itself that they can get caught in and have their insides squeezed out like cupcakes. The brinsea ones so far look the safest in case you get accidental hatches. It has the floor which rotates and has little room for anything to get caught. I'm still using the borotto though. The heat and humidity monitors are pretty accurate and thats hard enough to find now days.