I just got some birthday money and decided now that we moved to the country and I can actually keep roosters I would get a bigger incubator. I already had a Brinsea Mini Advance. I ended up getting a getting a used Hovabator 1602N with egg turner and then ordering some hatching eggs off Ebay. Problem is when I went to set up the Hovabator for the eggs I realized it doesn't have a fan. The person had said it was one with circulated air, and I wasn't familiar with the model enough to notice the fan wasn't there when I picked it up. So I didn't really want to put my eggs in there because I know still air incubators have much worse hatching rates, and shipped eggs are touchy enough as they are. But I just had 8 Odlansk Dwarf eggs arrive and 14 Bielefelder eggs arrive any day. I thought I'd set up the Brinsea for the Odlansk eggs and order a Hovabator fan kit and hope it arrived before the other eggs... But it doesn't seem like it would get here in time and when I just to set up the Brinsea, it won't turn on. It's as if the power isn't on, but I tested the plug it's plugged into and it is working fine. I haven't used it for about a year and a half.
So I don't know what to do... suggestions? Should I just use the Hovabator as it (still air)? Is there any way to increase my hatching percentage without the fan?
So I don't know what to do... suggestions? Should I just use the Hovabator as it (still air)? Is there any way to increase my hatching percentage without the fan?