- Mar 21, 2009
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Please help me decide! I have put off getting a new primary incubator for months. It can't wait any longer. It will be used entirely for waterfowl eggs and I need something that can really overcompensate for the very dry humidity in our area. Does anyone have the newer version of the Roll-X that is equipped with the Grumbach type rollers? I bet that is a dream for hatching duck eggs. I used to have a Grumbach and it was incredible. Having the rollers and the potential for a large water surface area is huge. The Roll-X would probably be awesome for our situation and type of eggs.
The main drawbacks to the Roll-X are the price and the size. I could only get probably 80 bantam duck eggs in there, so I would have to eventually get a second or third incubator. For less money, I could get a Dickey that would hold probably quadruple the number of eggs. That said, it is probably not *quite* as suited for waterfowl (although, I'm sure it would be great too). I am also a little concerned about being able to get adequate humidity in the Dickey as we are in a *very* dry climate. We have always had issues with being able to get enough humidity in our waterfowl incubators here in this area. When we lived in TX, the humidity was fine no matter what we used.
Which would you guys go with?
The main drawbacks to the Roll-X are the price and the size. I could only get probably 80 bantam duck eggs in there, so I would have to eventually get a second or third incubator. For less money, I could get a Dickey that would hold probably quadruple the number of eggs. That said, it is probably not *quite* as suited for waterfowl (although, I'm sure it would be great too). I am also a little concerned about being able to get adequate humidity in the Dickey as we are in a *very* dry climate. We have always had issues with being able to get enough humidity in our waterfowl incubators here in this area. When we lived in TX, the humidity was fine no matter what we used.
Which would you guys go with?
