Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco AND Hova-Bator 1602N Set!** Hatching Pics **

[Baralak]

Temps All ok tonight... Hova 102.1 Brinsea 99.5...

Candled all the eggs tonight, All of the BO X RIR, and SLW eggs were developing great had eye's on each. 2 of the Black Australorps had NO developement so they were pulled. Compaired between incubators both showed development about the same. I noticed more eyeballs in the Brinsea, compaired to the Hova, but all of the eggs were only 7 days completed.

I did an eggtopsy on the two BA eggs. Both were not fertilized. While I had the lid off of both bators, I filled the outer tray on the Hova, and filled the Brinsea.

END of day 7

 

[Baralak]

Nothing new to report.. All temps good all day both bators

 

[Baralak]

All temps have been good for the past 2 days... This is the end of day 10..

Candled tonight... 20 eggs ...

And I'm happy to report..20 are growing!!!

Both bators eggs appear to be developing the same.. The Air sac's in the Brinsea were a little bit larger than the Hova..

I filled the water in the Brinsea, Hova was good.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Sweet! -

Can't wait to see what you hatch!!

 

[Baralak]

A question was asked on another topic concerning this test... It basically was, how do you account for the variable of un-fertile eggs... here was my response.

Well.. First of all that is an unexpected variable in all clutches, and an non-controllable.

The easiest way to ensure the best rate of fertility is to only get your eggs from a source you have had a high fertility rate from.

The group that is in there currently came from Grambys farm which did a test hatch before she sent me her eggs. She had 90% fertile eggs, so mine were the same. Out of 22 set only 20 were fertile.

The point of the vs is to compare the mechnical attributes to the incubator, with the progress of the known fertile eggs. Since I candle on day 5 which is early I know, but I do this to seperate the potiential infertile eggs at that time. I pull and do an eggtopsy on day 7 to verify if it was fertile. Tonights observation was that for some reason the Brinsea's air sac's were just a little larger than the Hova's.

I will repeat this test and compare to this test with the eggs coming from the same location. So after the 1588 VS.. you will see once again the 1602n V Octagon 20 Eco V2.0

I also chart the temps taken 3 times daily.. I need to take a pic.. Right now I have 5 Thermometers in the hova, and 4 in the Brinsea.. Looks like a science experiment gone bad. I'm not looking at the temp, just the variance.. For example when the Hova gets really low on water, it indicated that by changing the internal temp on 4 of the 5 thermometers by .8 degrees on all of them, not just one. Once water was reintroduced into the pan, the temps (and after it became stable) the temps fell by .8.. Very interesting.. I also have 2 thermometers out side each bator for room temp variance readings.

Here's a pic of the setup in action!

 

[texaschickmom]

I'm impressed! Thanks for what you're doing, Baralak.

 

[happyhens44]

Ya thanks!

thats a heck of a set up

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Baralak - Are you sure that's a 1588 Genesis Hova-Bator? Mine doesn't look like that.

Mine has a full view picture window on the top.

 

[happyhens44]

its a 1602 Hovabator

 

[Baralak]

Yes... this is the Octagon 20 Eco and Hova-Bator 1602n. My comment above is for the next test.