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GOOD LORD I WOULD NEVER REFER ANYONE TO THIS MESS.....
THAT STRING IS ABSOLUTELY ALL OVER THE PLACE!
THERE ARE SO MANY MYTHS VS TRUTHS THERE IT ISNT EVEN FUNNY. ALSO THAT STRING WAS GEARED TOWARD CHICKEN HATCHING WHICH IS NEARLY BACKWARD FROM GAMEBIRDS. WE NEED TO CARE WHEN ANSWERING QUESTIONS LIKE THIS OR THE RESULT IS SOMETHING LIKE THAT STRING.... AS A PLACE FOR ADVICE THAT THING IS AN ABOMINATION
AND IF NOT CAREFUL I CAN SEE THIS HAPPENING HERE.... AS HECHICKEN POINTS OUT THE MORE ANSWERS THE WIDER THE SPREAD ON ANSWER RANGES... VERY GOOD POINT. AS FAR AS INCUBATING GOES IT IS AN INDIVIDUAL ARTFORM INFLUENCED BY AS MANY FACTORS AS THE WIND... GEOGRAPHY, EQUIPMENT, SPECES IN FOCUS, PERSONAL HABITS ETC... AS LIFESONG FARM POINTS OUT... BUY THE BEST YOU CAN AFFORD AND AFTER THAT YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO LEARN THE BEST WAY TO OPERATE WHAT YOU HAVE IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH YOUR GOALS.
I HAVE MANY INCUBATORS....
BRINSEA 20'S AND 40'S, HOVAS IN STILL AND FORCED AIR, LG'S IN STILL AND FORCED AIR, A DICKEY CABINET, AND SOON HOMEMADE CABINETS... EACH HAS THEIR STRONG AND WEAK POINTS, PROS AND CONS, AND ARE MORE APTLY SUITED FOR DIFFERENT SPECES/ PURPOSES.... MY INCUBATION HABITS VARY GREATLY AS WELL.... I ROUTINEY HATCH YEAR ROUND WELL IN EXCESS OF 10,000 BIRDS.... THEY RANGE FROM CHEAP COTURNIX QUAIL TO EXOTIC AND RARE GAMEBIRDS AND EXPENSIVE MIGRATORY WATERFOWL. I HAVE EVEN DONE WORK FOR STATE AGENCIES WITH SPECIAL PROJECTS...
LG'S ARE GREAT FOR CHICKEN/ TURKEY EGGS.... THEY START TO LOOSE GROUND FAST ON OTHER SPECES.... MOSTLY THE DESIGN FLAW OF NOT HAVING ENOUGH WATER SURFACE AREA IN THEM AS MANY OTHER SPECES REQUIRE MORE HUMIDITY RATHER THAN LESS
HOVAS ARE ROCK SOLID PERFORMERS... THE WAFER THERMOSTATS CAN BE ANNOYING TO GET REGULATED WHEN 1ST STARTING OUT WITH THEM AND WHEN THE THERMOSTAT CONTROL GOES THEY WILL BE ALL OVER THE PLACE TEMP-WISE
BRISNEAS ARE THE RON POPIEL INCUBATORS OF THE WORLD---- SET THE EGGS AND FORGET IT! BUT THE OCTAGON MODELS CAN BE SPACE LIMITING AS MENTIONED EARLIER... THEY MAKE TABLETOP MODELS THAT RESEMBLE COOLER-BATORS BUT ARE RATHER EXPENSIVE WHEN COMPARED TO COOLER-BATORS, THO DO SEEM TO OUTPERFORM THEM... THEIR C ABINETS ARE THE END ALL BOMB! BUT ONCE AGAIN HAVE AN END ALL PRICE TAG.... BRINSEAS ARE GEARED TOWARD PROFESSIONAL USE... THEY ARE INDUSTRY STANDARD EQUIPMENT FOR MORE ZOOS AND CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS WORLD WIDE THAN ALL OTHER MAKES/MODELS AVAILABLE COMBINED.
SPORTSMEN INCUBATORS (BY THE MAKERS OF HOVABATOR, GQF) ARE THE MOST WIDELY USED CABINET BY HOBBYIST HERE IN THE USA AND MANY A PROFESSIONAL GAMEFARM TOO. THE MODELS VARY GREATLY IN OPTIONS AND FUNCTION AS DO THE PRICE TAGS
DICKEY CABINETS ARE KNOCK-OFFS OF THE SPROTSMEN
LYONS MAKES SPECIALTY INCUBATORS WITH EXORBIDENT PRICES, THEY COMPARE IN FUNCTION TO
BRINSEA, BUT SOME ARE NOT AS USER FRIENDLY AND YET OTHERS ARE... DEPENDS ON THE MODEL AND WHILE I LIKE THEM I REFUSE TO PAY THE PRICE FOR THEM
WHAT DID I MESS? (NOT COUNTING THE
EBAY SHANGHAI WEIRD AND UNUSAL SPECIALS...)
this is one of the better posts I have seen , there is a learning curve with styro bators I own use an older 1602N hova my curve was much shorter then mosts will be, I was raised around 50,00 chickens at a time X3 I quit fooling with them for a while, all my hunting Pals raise bobwhites mostly for meat some for training dogs, but again my venture into quail the learning curve was shortened because of all the helpful folks here that and I have been around them the last 30 year if you are just starting to incubate the
brinsea is more plug and play the hovas I use you kina have to pay attention to what they are doing. there was a post that kina outlined how to use the styrobators that was really good it would have been nice as a sticky, I think it was by a lady from Cali. good luck
