HELP! Please sell me your older model hovabator :-(

[exop]

Dear forum members, I recently used a borrowed hovabator, a few years old, to hatch out a clutch of fantastic silkies.

Unfortuanately, the bottom tray of the incubator was left in a non-chicken-proofed location... where it fell fell victim to some chickens who found out they loved to peck apart styrofoam.

The new hovabators have curvy corners - this hovabator is from about 5 years ago, I think, and has square corners, so the bottom tray from the new model won't fit on it. I just want to fix the hovabator and make this right. Does anyone have an old bottom tray, or a complete old hovabator, that I can buy? I'll gladly pay the price of a new hovabator. It doesn't have to be in pristine condition, as long as it doesn't look like crubled feta cheese. :-(


The company no longer makes bottom tray replacements for the old hovabator, and no one has them in stock any longer.

Thanks for your help- I'm DESPERATE!

Best - exop in Indiana

 

[BirdBrain]

Sorry the chickens got to it. I hope someone comes along to help.

If you are willing to pay the price of a new hovabator to make it right, why not just buy a new one and give that back to your friend. You can then take the parts from the top and make you a homemade bator. That way you both win!!

 

[jimnjay]

Do the LG incubators have the square trays? I was thinking that they do. You could possibly try one of those and see if it will work. They may not be the same size.

 

[KellyHM]

LGs are square, but they're not the same size & the top sits outside the edges of the bottom instead of inside.