Has anyone else NOT had a good experience with the Nuture Right 360?

[shane13]

I know this is an old post, but you are not crazy. We have one of the old LG Styrofoam incubators and get 80% plus hatch rate and only 10-20% on the NR360 with the exact same eggs placed at the exact same time and they are always a day or two later. That the whole reason I got on today is to ask if we were the only ones.

 

[Georgeie]

It's been some years. I'm wondering if the poster figured it out. I have the same one and bought shipped eggs from two different producers which are NPIP. I'm afraid shipping just ruined them. Had 16 eggs and they were all yokes when done except three. One died after a few days and another after a few more days and one looked full term.

I ran it through another batch but that had multiple unrelated problems but the one egg that I thought was developed ended up looking like a undercooked and rotting hard boiled egg.

I thought the temp and humidity was perfect almost all the time and definitely within the temp range. The humidity only dropped once and that was way before lockdown.

 

[BoundlessLove]

Shipping can be extremely hard on eggs. Especially nowadays when USPS seems to ignore anything written on the outside.
I am on hatch day now with several shipped eggs. Set 21 in my NR and only 12 made to lockdown.
All of my girls’ eggs I added are doing great. The shipped eggs rate is abysmal. But the air cells were SO wonky in those eggs. I know this is USPS and not my NR because I get high hatch rate with my eggs.

 

[Georgeie]

Shipping can be extremely hard on eggs. Especially nowadays when USPS seems to ignore anything written on the outside.
I am on hatch day now with several shipped eggs. Set 21 in my NR and only 12 made to lockdown.
All of my girls’ eggs I added are doing great. The shipped eggs rate is abysmal. But the air cells were SO wonky in those eggs. I know this is USPS and not my NR because I get high hatch rate with my eggs.

I was just about to text my mailman that the delivery that day was eggs and to please set them on the ground when I looked up and he was walking away and he had dropped them over the fence.

The shipper had put a small fragile sign on the box and a sticker with black fancy font to indicate it was eggs. I just think it should be the large fragile sticker and in red. It has to look official. I wouldn't expect the mailman to read any pretty font. But you would think that "F R A G I L E" is enough. but again it has to be on all six sides as they can place additional barcodes on the sides or ends and never see the single "fragile" sticker otherwise.

 

[cavemanrich]

I was just about to text my mailman that the delivery that day was eggs and to please set them on the ground when I looked up and he was walking away and he had dropped them over the fence.

The shipper had put a small fragile sign on the box and a sticker with black fancy font to indicate it was eggs. I just think it should be the large fragile sticker and in red. It has to look official. I wouldn't expect the mailman to read any pretty font. But you would think that "F R A G I L E" is enough. but again it has to be on all six sides as they can place additional barcodes on the sides or ends and never see the single "fragile" sticker otherwise.

It is not just the mail carrier, that dropped the box. When boxes go thru automatic sorting, they do get additional pushing, banging.
Try to get your eggs locally if possible, where you drive, and pickup.
I see You are NEW here,, and no Idea where you reside. If I knew your location,, I would suggest you post On Your State thread. There you can ask peeps in your general vicinity,, if they have eggs for sale.

 

[Georgeie]

It is not just the mail carrier, that dropped the box. When boxes go thru automatic sorting, they do get additional pushing, banging.
Try to get your eggs locally if possible, where you drive, and pickup.
I see You are NEW here,, and no Idea where you reside. If I knew your location,, I would suggest you post On Your State thread. There you can ask peeps in your general vicinity,, if they have eggs for sale.

Of course, that was just an example of what the box went through for transit. I can't speak to any other part of transit as I didn't see it. I think you did suggest that I look locally. I'll look. I already have found many locals. I bought online because I wanted a specific breed. I didn't find it locally but something close. But yeah, I will look here for local too. Supposed to be buying some tomorrow.

 

[NorthwoodsChick]

Timely thread, even if it’s a bit older.
I like the ease of N360 setup but my biggest pet peeve is seating the dome lid correctly when trying to be quick. The lid scoots all over, can entrap a chicks head, foot, wing, etc as it rattles on the thin rim.
I decided last night after assisting two shrink wrapped chicks (alive and well) to buy a lift and snap top style incubator no matter the cost.
Brinsea has one, I think.
I’ll keep the N360 as a hatchling drying critical care unit.

 

[Georgeie]

It is not just the mail carrier, that dropped the box. When boxes go thru automatic sorting, they do get additional pushing, banging.
Try to get your eggs locally if possible, where you drive, and pickup.
I see You are NEW here,, and no Idea where you reside. If I knew your location,, I would suggest you post On Your State thread. There you can ask peeps in your general vicinity,, if they have eggs for sale.

Say, how I find my state thread on here? I thought it would be obvious. Maybe my account isn't setup. In my email I see that I first had an account in 2011 but lost access to that email (all old email was forwarded to my current one when I switched over - so that is how I still see it).. but my current account .. I'm just not sure about it.

 

[NatJ]

Say, how I find my state thread on here?

Try this section:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/where-am-i-where-are-you.26/

There should be a thread for your state in there somewhere.

If you can't find it by looking, check this thread that contains a list:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/find-your-states-or-your-countrys-thread.270925/