Evaluate: R-Com 3-Egg Mini Incubator

[conny63malies]

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I think s/he means the yellow junkabators.

 

[BoJo]

Ths stupid yellow one....we had that at the school house and it did not work worth crap.....The teachers tried it like 4 times and it never could keep a temp.

But that white looks cool....maybe I should do something like that for school!

BoJo

 

[AHappychick]

I have the r-com 20 and it is great I would think their smaller 3 egg modle would be good as well.

 

[orcasislandchickens]

The Rcom 3 is great. As I said above the ONLY problems with it I can find (and I use it all the time) are

1. Size- it only holds 3 eggs
2. Cost- it is about $130 dollars.

The temperature and humidity is not only stable but electronically monitored and automatically controlled with a little computer brain. It is quiet, clean, well insullated, turns the eggs when they need to be turned, stops automatically on day 18 etc. etc. etc.

Only you know whether it will work out for you. Anyone that has the time and attention to learn and monitor the process can do everything manually but it is nice to have it done for you.

Rcom does make a couple of larger models, but once you get away from the 3 egg model they jump in price big time. Like to 400-700 dollars. The 3 egg model is almost affordable but the larger ones are priced for specialty bird breeders. Brinsea makes nice 10 and 20 egg models that are a little cheaper and not quite as automatic but still good.

That little yellow deal pictured a few posts back- stay away from it. Make your own incubator or save up longer and buy something else.

 

[Squeaky]

I have the R-com and it's doing great. I've got three fertile Easter Egger eggs from GracefulBantams in there, I'm a week and a half in, and all three are showing nice development.

I thought about getting a bigger incubator, but do I really need to feed my chicken addiction that badly? As it stands, with the R-com I'll get a maximum of three baby chicks. The roosters will have to be re-homed since I live in the suburbs, but the pullets can be raised to 16 weeks and then squeaked into my existing flock. With a Hovabator I'd end up with at least a dozen and that's too many.

 

[bearfeet3]

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The R-com mini and that piece of crap yellow thing is no comparison!!! I've had both, and the mini yellow "incubtor" is pretty much a toy, its a cheap plastic dome thats heated by a tiny lightbulb and comes with a peice of foil for "temperature regulation"and a 50 cent thermostat. I realized mid incubation with this thing that by placing the thermostat at different eggs I got huge temperature differences. Good luck not killing the whole batch with this. The r-com mini on the other hand regulates its own temperature humidity and turning based on the bird type you select. You just fill it with water and leave it. Its really amazing if youre not planning on incubating alot of eggs...

 

[kelseygirl707]

Yea, Don't get the Yellow one, I had one probably like 10 years ago, I think I was about 12, could have been 14 or 16 though, but anyway, everytime I would check on it, it would be at about 106-112, I'd bring the temp down, but then it would go down to like 80, needless to say, I never got any eggs to hatch, I think my mom still has it at her Day care, but has never used it, as she knows it's useless.

 

[jonty]

I started with the R-Com mini and it's a fantastic incubator. 100% hatch with it. Then went onto the R-Com 20, again great incci. Now only yesterday my new R-com King Suro arrived. Lucky I had eggs ready so just 20 days to go for another great hach. In short, I would never use any other incubator. Oh and by the way I bought straight from R-Com From Korea to Germany where I live 4 days and up and running. That is what I call service.

 

[crait]

Wow. I guess everyone loves these things!
It's definately something I will buy when I want to start hatching! Thanks guys!

 

[cottagegarden]

My kids really wanted the R-Com mini with the scope and @ Nov or Dec Brinsea had some for $109
scratch and dent so to speak. Since we have mostly colored eggs not much luck with the scope(and I'm just not that patient putting things together)
but the incubator has had 100% hatch rates with everything in it. It has worked out great for some of our projects where there is only one hen.