I am building ms. Prissy's incubator model, but I found a hovabator on ebay for a decent price. Are they reliable? it's the still air model without a turner in it..can it be modified with a cpu fan?
Yes, you can put a fan in it. We found one at a yard sale and did that. Chicks are hatching in it now. The styrobators are okay for a number of hatches,then become more difficult to clean. They all have similar components to them and the sum of those is nowhere near what they charge for them, so I do like my homemade ones as well, except that those do not fit the turner.
Thanks! It's nice to get a second opinion. My mom has a little giant and we never were able to get eggs to hatch out of it.
Any bator is better with a fan, that's for sure. The LGs seem prone to temp spikes for some reason, maybe just because most of them are still air.
I have good hatches out of my hovabator. Its a still air with a turner. Only thing I don't like is I need more room, would like to be able to hatch more eggs, and beable to put more in once I already have some started. I find eggs I want but have to wait till a hatch is done before I can order more. I like it though.
I'll only ever use a hovabator... I just candled this afternoon, 4/4 good to go on day 7! No turner, no fan... just follow the directions.
I have the 1588 and am really happy with it. I have a turner and fan and just got done with a 87% hatch rate (26/30) with shipped eggs. It's very reliable and easy.
I have a hovabator with the fan and am doing my first hatch. So far on day 20 I have 12 hatched out of 30 set. It seems to be doing the job just fine.
