I have borrowed a Styrofoam incubator from my county extension office (I'm a 4-H volunteer) to use in an incubation display for our county fair. Problem is that the instruction manual for the thing is long gone. I use a cabinet incubator myself so this thing is new to me.
Can anyone give me a positive identification? I know it's a Hovabator with the picture window. An older model 1583? Something else?
It's fan driven and has the auto-turner. Thermometer included so I can use it to calibrate the thermostat. No hygrometer and that's the part that concerns me. I know folks use these things to hatch with just by filling up a certain number of the water reservoirs underneath. I'll only be using it as a hatcher as the day 1-18 incubation will be done at the house in my cabinet. Then I'll haul the eggs to the fair and put them in the Styrofoam incubator that I will have set up the night before so that it can stabilize before I put the eggs in. The livestock exhibits are in a big tent so the humidity will fluctuate somewhat from high in the early morning to lower in the midday to evening.
I'll have a small display brooder I'm making from a big transparent Rubbermaid container on the table next to it. The idea being to fill the thing with about-to-hatch eggs from my cabinet that I set over a period of three days so they can hatch over the four day span of the fair. Take out the dry chicks once a day to put in the brooder to give those still pipping room for their turn.
I bought a hygrometer/thermometer from Wally World over the weekend, but it gives such wildly inconsistent readings relative to the one I have in my cabinet that I have no faith in it. I'm going to PetsMart tonight to see if I can come up with a better one.
Anyone know for sure what this thing is and how to get the humidity for the final three day lockdown right?
Thanks much!
Can anyone give me a positive identification? I know it's a Hovabator with the picture window. An older model 1583? Something else?
It's fan driven and has the auto-turner. Thermometer included so I can use it to calibrate the thermostat. No hygrometer and that's the part that concerns me. I know folks use these things to hatch with just by filling up a certain number of the water reservoirs underneath. I'll only be using it as a hatcher as the day 1-18 incubation will be done at the house in my cabinet. Then I'll haul the eggs to the fair and put them in the Styrofoam incubator that I will have set up the night before so that it can stabilize before I put the eggs in. The livestock exhibits are in a big tent so the humidity will fluctuate somewhat from high in the early morning to lower in the midday to evening.
I'll have a small display brooder I'm making from a big transparent Rubbermaid container on the table next to it. The idea being to fill the thing with about-to-hatch eggs from my cabinet that I set over a period of three days so they can hatch over the four day span of the fair. Take out the dry chicks once a day to put in the brooder to give those still pipping room for their turn.
I bought a hygrometer/thermometer from Wally World over the weekend, but it gives such wildly inconsistent readings relative to the one I have in my cabinet that I have no faith in it. I'm going to PetsMart tonight to see if I can come up with a better one.
Anyone know for sure what this thing is and how to get the humidity for the final three day lockdown right?
Thanks much!
