New unit looks great. I have no doubt you'll have many fine hatches in it.
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If you can get the humidity pump for close to the same price later I personally would try without the humidity pump. Remember the only problem is you’re going to have to get a different type of gauge to monitor the humidity because it does not show the humidity on the incubator itself.This will be the first incubator I've ever bought, so I don't have any
methods from which to draw. I've looked at what videos and reviews that there are on this model, and yours is the only one I've seen that is honest and realistic. I down loaded the manual for this model, and it recommends rotating every five days, in order to increase the hatch rate. That seems to contradict the once and done concept. But I guess it shouldn't be a deal breaker.
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Thanks, I really appreciate your review.
If you were a first timer like me, would you buy the pump or could you regulate the humidity sufficiently without it. I'm retired, so I have plenty of time to fool with this thing.
no, I haven't. I might leave a review after I see how my second hatch goes.Have you complained to Premier about the problem?
With the two trays you should be able to get humidity up to around 50. If higher is needed during lockdown they say to addI did NOT have good luck with the humidity pump on my first hatch of quail eggs. It flooded the tray at least twice, and I had to go in and drain out the water. Other times it kept running and running and putting more water in and I had to shut the pump down before it flooded. Maybe it was user error. As a newbie, I'm very willing to accept that I did something wrong, but I read the instructions multiple times and tested the set up for several days while waiting for the eggs to arrive and everything seemed stable during that time....so if I did something incorrectly, I'm not sure what it was.
Even with the pump problems I had a hatch rate of around 60-70 percent...I had more quail chicks than I knew what to do with. Most of the eggs that I lost had nearly formed chicks inside them. My hatch times seemed kind of weird...I had some hatch on the correct day and some hatch late. I did not move my 90-some eggs into new places every 5 days, so maybe the heating inside is uneven?
I set a new batch of eggs just last week--chicken eggs this time. I love how the egg tray can hold different kinds of eggs.
I am too nervous to use the pump, so I am using the incubator without it. Several of my extra back-up thermometers measure humidity as well, and so far it seems like the humidity has been pretty consistient with one tray filled with water. Supposed to fill the 2nd tray with water for lockdown.
We'll see how it goes.
I think I am going to be happy enough with the incubator. Maybe my pump is defective, or maybe I did something wrong, but I am quite disappointed with the pump and feel like it has been a waste of money, and I wish I had not bought it.
Premier 1 is pretty good about taking care of issuesno, I haven't. I might leave a review after I see how my second hatch goes.