Havobator 1602N~ Is anyone using this? Good or Bad?

[rebel yell]

I use my 1602 as a hatcher & it seems tdo fine, I dont open & close it all the time od fool with the thermostat, I have set it where it needs to be & dont mess with it & it might vary 1 deg. ever so often, but it works fine.

 

[The Critter Place]

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The 1588 has an electronic thermostat and the 1583 has a wafer thermostat.

Oh, O.K.
I've heard wafer thermostats are not all that reliable.

I talked to hubby, and we decided we will go with the 1588 and get a turner down the road.

I picked a bad time to get excited about something and start shopping!

Hubby was out of work for several weeks prior to back to school and we have a Son who needed a whole new wardrobe for his freshman year of high school.

Up till now, it was always uniforms. So it was fun (not!) shopping.

We had a few chickens a few yrs back. And recently I saw an add on Craigslist for baby quail! That's all it took! We got 8, and well everyone here knows the rest... Addicted

and no turning back.

 

[The Critter Place]

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I thought about getting one as a hatcher, but wasn't happy about the small windows.

 

[AlienChick]

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I paid $174 + $18.49 for shipping.
And it comes with the quail racks, turner, and hygrometer.

 

[jesus freak]

Im using it and it seems to be working great but this is only the third day

 

[The Critter Place]

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I paid $174 + $18.49 for shipping.
And it comes with the quail racks, turner, and hygrometer.

Thank you.

The one I was looking at did not have the hygrometer. And not sure about thermometer.

 

[rebel yell]

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The 1588 has an electronic thermostat and the 1583 has a wafer thermostat.

Oh, O.K.
I've heard wafer thermostats are not all that reliable.

I talked to hubby, and we decided we will go with the 1588 and get a turner down the road.

I picked a bad time to get excited about something and start shopping!

Hubby was out of work for several weeks prior to back to school and we have a Son who needed a whole new wardrobe for his freshman year of high school.

Up till now, it was always uniforms. So it was fun (not!) shopping.

We had a few chickens a few yrs back. And recently I saw an add on Craigslist for baby quail! That's all it took! We got 8, and well everyone here knows the rest... Addicted

and no turning back.

Wafer thermostats are the most reliable to me, wouldnt have anything else, they have been in use for 100 years, so yea they are pretty good.

 

[thekid]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HovaBator-E...385?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4cec0f0751

 

[ki4got]

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so get the genesis (1588) for incubating and use the still air picture window model for just hatching... it's a bunch cheaper than the genesis but without the electronic thermostat, circulated air or turner...

www.incubatorwarehouse.com has both i think, at the best prices i've found.

i'm still shopping for mine, haven't made a decision one way or the other yet. used to have a hovabator picture window with the wafer thermostat and it did OK... but i used it more as a brooder for my cockies and keets. (sorry, cockatiels and parakeets... keep forgetting bird words change among hobbies LOL)

I'm actually contemplating building a cabinet style incubator but it's a ways down the list as i have 2 large sheds (for people storage LOL) and another large coop in the plans before I'm allowed to build anything else... who would have guessed the power tools were mine, not hubbies LOL.