Brinsea 190, & other cabinet incubators, Positives & negatives please

[BeardedLadyFarm]

Guess who has the Brinsea Ova easy 190 arriving on Jan 4.... mwah ha ha hahhhhh.

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

So, am I the only sucker who took the plunge?

It arrived today, and I'm quite pleased.

My only complaints so far are that the humidity pump is quite loud. We'll see if I can sleep with it on, as the incubator is in my bedroom.

I also dropped the clear plastic reservoir on the humidity pump as I was unpacking. It only fell 12" and onto a carpeted floor, but it shattered. I can order a new one for $40! yikes. I guess they don't make plastic like they used to (ie, cheap and durable). Luckily it will work work with a piece of tuperware as the reservoir too.

I moved the eggs that were in the old incubator into the new one. I have a few test eggs coming by mail tomorrow. I'm hoping my faith in shipped eggs with be restored. Of course I know an incubator can't fix postal service damage.

 

[dak]

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You're not alone. I still need to fire mine up. I'm waiting til my Cochins have been segregated for 3 weeks to test hatch in mine. What I've got going in the hovabators can stay there, though now that I'm hatching my own eggs rather that shipped, they're giving me much better results. I think I saw a thread for a new Brinsea hatch-along.

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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You're not alone. I still need to fire mine up. I'm waiting til my Cochins have been segregated for 3 weeks to test hatch in mine. What I've got going in the hovabators can stay there, though now that I'm hatching my own eggs rather that shipped, they're giving me much better results. I think I saw a thread for a new Brinsea hatch-along.

I'll have to check that out. The New Year's Day hatch thread was too much for me to keep up with!

Now that I have my own Seramas out of very good stock, I thought I needed something more consistent than my hovabator. And staggered hatching is a pain in a hovabator. I'm still not sure if I'm going to hatch in the Brinsea, or move them out for hatching time...

 

[dak]

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You're not alone. I still need to fire mine up. I'm waiting til my Cochins have been segregated for 3 weeks to test hatch in mine. What I've got going in the hovabators can stay there, though now that I'm hatching my own eggs rather that shipped, they're giving me much better results. I think I saw a thread for a new Brinsea hatch-along.

I'll have to check that out. The New Year's Day hatch thread was too much for me to keep up with!

Now that I have my own Seramas out of very good stock, I thought I needed something more consistent than my hovabator. And staggered hatching is a pain in a hovabator. I'm still not sure if I'm going to hatch in the Brinsea, or move them out for hatching time...

I really should read my manual, but how to you compensate for varying humidity at hatch time in the Brinsea. I figured I'd use my hovabator Genesis to hatch.

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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I'll have to check that out. The New Year's Day hatch thread was too much for me to keep up with!

Now that I have my own Seramas out of very good stock, I thought I needed something more consistent than my hovabator. And staggered hatching is a pain in a hovabator. I'm still not sure if I'm going to hatch in the Brinsea, or move them out for hatching time...

I really should read my manual, but how to you compensate for varying humidity at hatch time in the Brinsea. I figured I'd use my hovabator Genesis to hatch.

I have a hunch that if you ran it on lower humidity for 5 days a week, and then raised it for 2 days a week (hatch days), you could even out the water loss necessary for a good hatch. I have a sensitive scale, so I'm going to weigh my next batch and see if I can get the proper water loss with raising 2 days a week for hatching. I think average humidity and average water loss are more important than consistent humidity. Maybe I'll start another thread...

 

[kennedyscochins]

I was told to raise the humidity for hatch and then let it drop back down into the 30's to even everything back out. The problem for me is that even with the humidity pump, it is very hard to get my humidity to 70%. I had to fill the internal tray, humidity pump and put sponges in there to get the humidity up. I know the pump is working because it stays right on when I have it set at lower humidities. I also have a brinsea octagon 20 ex so I have been using that for hatching (if I have a low number to hatch on that day). It will raise the humidity easily!

 

[MuranoFarms]

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I may have to join you and order another one.

I just did the math. If 9 guineas lay for 10 days....guinea eggs take 28 days to incubate.....In 20 days I'm out of space

Might need the 380

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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I may have to join you and order another one.

I just did the math. If 9 guineas lay for 10 days....guinea eggs take 28 days to incubate.....In 20 days I'm out of space

Might need the 380

Come to the dark side! ha ha ha. I don't plan on running out of space in here very often, but it could happen... I've been getting pretty creative with my egg stacking in the hovabator!

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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I haven't tried to raise my that high yet. I figure even if I tinker with it a bit with eggs in there, it's more reliable that what I was doing before in my hovabator.

Is your humidity pump annoyingly loud? Maybe loud isn't the right word, but I can hear it from 2 floors away.