Has anyone tried the Little Giant Incubators?

[aart]

I haven't had my turner burn out yet, so I must have gotten a good one?

Maybe.....or they've improved.
My experience was a couple years ago....2 different turners and 3 motors.

 

[BlueBaby]

Maybe.....or they've improved.
My experience was a couple years ago....2 different turners and 3 motors.

I bought mine 3 year's ago when I bought my incubator at a feed store right here in town at my local small feed store. It was sold separately from the incubator itself. I'm using it again right now for my hatch of 32 egg's that are due to hatch on the 14th. It's still holding both the temp and humidity good.

 

[aart]

I bought mine 3 year's ago when I bought my incubator at a feed store right here in town at my local small feed store. It was sold separately from the incubator itself. I'm using it again right now for my hatch of 32 egg's that are due to hatch on the 14th. It's still holding both the temp and humidity good.

I had no trouble with temp and humidity.

 

[Chickassan]

I use the 9200 too, it got tweaked a little just taking the plastic sheet off the temperature probe and making a steady hanger for the probe with bread ties to avoid it getting moved.
I have burned out one turner but it wasn't sounding so great even brand new so probably a mass production problem, just a cheap little pressed motor driving it. Current turner sounded alot better.
I've done four hatches since 2016 in mine, some extremely small 2 eggs and had good luck. Only had 2 dead in shell in that span. This spring's hatch ended yesterday, 9 eggs with 8 live hatching. Number 9 pipped but there was a yolk problem and it didn't make it past.

 

[FoodFreedomNow]

I own the Little Giant 9300 Circulated Air incubator. I have not hatched many eggs in it yet, but I just wanted to say I am very impressed with the temperature consistency. It's always within ~0.3 of a degree, and my second thermometer confirms that. Has anyone else tried this incubator?

Glad yours seems to work well, but that was not my experience - the digital display was way off and it didn't hold temps consistently. I only used it as a hatcher, but it was so unreliable that I replaced it with a Hova-Bator 2370 (which was not much more expensive). Based on my personal experience, I couldn't recommend this one.

 

[CaffeinatedRN]

What are you going to try to hatch? Got to love the coffee. I'm a big coffee drinker.

Easter Eggers and Barred Rock.

I see a lot of people complaining about the turners. We actually plan to do that manually, so hopefully it won’t be an issue for us

 

[BlueBaby]

Easter Eggers and Barred Rock.

I see a lot of people complaining about the turners. We actually plan to do that manually, so hopefully it won’t be an issue for us

Good luck on your hatch! I'm at the half way mark now on mine. I'm doing Naked Neck/Breese mixed ones, plus some silkie's.

 

[FoodFreedomNow]

Good luck on your hatch! I'm at the half way mark now on mine. I'm doing Naked Neck/Breese mixed ones, plus some silkie's.

Naked neck/Bresse? Do you have any pics of previous hatches - they must look really interesting!

I've crossed FBCM and Bresse before and they were really nice birds that looked like (white) Bresse with a dark feather here and there. The hens laid a dark brown egg, and roos were fast-growing and pretty mellow.

Best wishes for a great hatch!

 

[BlueBaby]

Naked neck/Bresse? Do you have any pics of previous hatches - they must look really interesting!

I've crossed FBCM and Bresse before and they were really nice birds that looked like (white) Bresse with a dark feather here and there. The hens laid a dark brown egg, and roos were fast-growing and pretty mellow.

Best wishes for a great hatch!

I got my breeding stock of them a year ago, and was told that they had hatched out in Feb. I wanted white Naked Necks, so the one that I had bought my starter's from added some White Breese hen's to the Naked Neck rooster's pen. So, my adults that I have now are already mixed that way. The egg's I'm hatching now are their's. The rooster in my avatar is one of those that I bought from her. He is the best rooster that I have had! You can also see in my avatar one of the girl's that is white and a few scattered black feathering. The picture was taken last year. Yes, I hatched a couple of eggs from Charley over that Crested Cream Legbar hen that lay's blue eggs too, and her daughter's are now laying green colored eggs.

 

[FoodFreedomNow]

I got my breeding stock of them a year ago, and was told that they had hatched out in Feb. I wanted white Naked Necks, so the one that I had bought my starter's from added some White Breese hen's to the Naked Neck rooster's pen. So, my adults that I have now are already mixed that way. The egg's I'm hatching now are their's. The rooster in my avatar is one of those that I bought from her. He is the best rooster that I have had! You can also see in my avatar one of the girl's that is white and a few scattered black feathering. The picture was taken last year. Yes, I hatched a couple of eggs from Charley over that Crested Cream Legbar hen that lay's blue eggs too, and her daughter's are now laying green colored eggs.

Neat! He's quite a striking boy - like a naked neck Bresse!

I'm a big fan of Bresse crosses...I started a group with shipped eggs and had a mediocre hatch, which didn't really raise any red flags, but had really poor hatches from the grown-out adults, including some where no eggs hatched (no incubation issues, either).

When I crossed the Bresse with FBCM, the hatch rates went back to what I'd expect (high), so I think there was a genetic issue at work - probably lack of diversity in the pure Bresse gene pool.

You must have a very colorful egg basket!