Harris Farms Nurture Right 360 Incubator is AMAZING!

[CrisAnderson27]

The upright brown egg in pic 1 is the special egg, the blue in pic 2 is from my flock. You can see the brown one on the opposite side in the back on pic 2.

With the TP tubes, different angles of cuts gives better tilting options. I measured 45 degrees on a test egg, marked it, and found the angled tube allowed a full 45 degree till better, if one is inclined to tilt that far. I did experiment with carton cups, but my eggs were too big to tilt back and forth without cutting the sides down, which in turn made the cups wobbly.



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Brilliant! I bet I could make some out of balsa that would allow the eggs to sit a bit lower and give a bit more stability. In addition, they'll retain some heat which will make up for the temp difference from top to bottom.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Brilliant! I bet I could make some out of balsa that would allow the eggs to sit a bit lower and give a bit more stability. In addition, they'll retain some heat which will make up for the temp difference from top to bottom.

Good idea! If I had done the entire hatch upright and without the turner, the TP tubes would have been my method. As it was I was still scrambling the morning I set them to figure out something that didn't make the turner lopsided.
I do have to be very careful with the lid or reaching in to adjust the flat eggs.

 

[CrisAnderson27]

Good idea! If I had done the entire hatch upright and without the turner, the TP tubes would have been my method. As it was I was still scrambling the morning I set them to figure out something that didn't make the turner lopsided.
I do have to be very careful with the lid or reaching in to adjust the flat eggs.

I'm going to fashion some guides for the lid from polystyrene sheet. I can weld them to the sides of the base, which will let me simply lower the lid, and it will guide itself on all four sides.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

I'm going to fashion some guides for the lid from polystyrene sheet. I can weld them to the sides of the base, which will let me simply lower the lid, and it will guide itself on all four sides.

Those will be great!
Last hatch I tried the bigger wall hooks like ..who was it...MGG posted? But there was no place to apply them that was stable and flat so I could never trust them not to let go so they were only an aid.

This hatch I put smaller hooks on the raised white part of the dome and attached a handle, but the sides are still a little, well...you know. My handle does help me lift it up one handed, but putting it back on is always the tricky part. Even with two hands.
Probably the worst flaw of the whole design through all the models.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I really struggled with how the lid functioned initially. I even made my husband open it while I grabbed chicks when I first started using it. Somewhere along the way I just started using one hand to tilt it back without opening it completely and it seals perfectly when you close it again that way. I don't have any trouble anymore so I guess I just got used to it.

 

[aart]

I can weld them to the sides of the base, which will let me simply lower the lid, and it will guide itself on all four sides.

Plastic welder?
Risky business.

 

[Gooseface]

Are the NR360 still being manufactured? I can’t seem to find them anywhere. Sorry if this has been covered already....I couldn’t go through all 73 pages of this thread to look for that into! Ha

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Are the NR360 still being manufactured? I can’t seem to find them anywhere. Sorry if this has been covered already....I couldn’t go through all 73 pages of this thread to look for that into! Ha

As far as I know, yes. Incubators are just sold out everywhere. With the chick boom there was also an incubator boom. Lol

 

[SnapdragonQ]

I really struggled with how the lid functioned initially. I even made my husband open it while I grabbed chicks when I first started using it. Somewhere along the way I just started using one hand to tilt it back without opening it completely and it seals perfectly when you close it again that way. I don't have any trouble anymore so I guess I just got used to it.

I was doing that the last hatch too, (not using the hooks) but found many times it would jump/slip out of the narrow ridge and either bump inward, or outward causing other areas of the rim to tap the eggs somewhere.
I don't know if they made changes on the latest model, but tipping it more than about an inch or two makes it rather unstable on my model. And closing smoothly? pfft, not this model.

I mean it get it, it's made to be taken completely off and on, and the dome holds the heat fairly well when it's off for a full candling, but sometimes you need to just grab one egg for a check, or nudge an egg that's gotten a little wonky in the turner. Or you know...just touch the eggs because you can't help yourself.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Are the NR360 still being manufactured? I can’t seem to find them anywhere. Sorry if this has been covered already....I couldn’t go through all 73 pages of this thread to look for that into! Ha

I had to order through my local Tractor Supply Company....after waiting until it came back in stock. Had it shipped to the store and picked it up when it arrived.