Do you have to have a hatcher for one of those cabinet incubators.....

[countryboy1]

I was thinking of buying one of those cabinet incubators but I here people talking about a hatcher, what is a hatcher. And what would be a good incubator. I will be hatching chickens, ducks, and possibly peafowl.

 

[Pumpkinpup]

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A Dickey is excellent for all types of fowl, and no, you arn't required to have a seperate hatcher but it is nice.

 

[Pumpkinpup]

A Hatcher is a seperate unit that you move the eggs into the last three days of incubation for the actual hatch.

 

[countryboy1]

So they will hatch out on those turners and they will be fine.
and what is a good brand of hatcher.

 

[Pumpkinpup]

Cabinet incubators have a switch that you can turn off the motion and level the trays. Yes, they are fine.
If you have only one tray of eggs due to hatch at a time, most are also equiped with a hatching drawer so you can move the eggs down in that for hatching.

 

[Pumpkinpup]

I like the Dickey brand cabinet incubator best myself. But, GQF makes a nice one as well. James Way is top of the line, but they make LARGE UNITS!

 

[countryboy1]

So which Dickey Incubator would you recomend I would like one with a hatcher in it.

 

[Pumpkinpup]

The 2 by 2 is what I would choose for a small operation at home. It is all the incubator you would ever need and the replacement wafers are readily available at the local feed store or TSC in case of one going out

http://dickeyincubators.com/products.htm

 

[duckluck]

Someone on here had a top of the line Dickey for sale, but I don't know if you are local to them.

 

[farmin'chick]

I have a GQF Sportsman. It has a tray in the bottom to use as a hatcher so you can do staggered hatching -- three trays that turn, and one tray in the bottom that does not. It holds 270 eggs.