Is a Little Giant incubator a good deal or just "Cheep, cheep."?

[cuckoo_orpington13]

I've heard about all kinds of incubators, I wold love to hatch my own eggs but I'm worried about the incubator itself. I've
looked online at several incubators and the LG still air seems a good price, but I've heard bad things about it.

I'm on a budget, so could you tell which incubator is good quality but doesn't exceed over $120.00?

I'd appreciate it.

I really don't want my eggs to never hatch.

Thank you!

 

[geebs]

Brinsea has a sale!!! and also.. for more eggies... 1588.. I am very happy with mine. LG...for a hatch or two might be okay...never cared for the wafer thing... to unreliable... I would never hatch expensive shipped eggs in one... It depends on whether your eggs are important to you ... which way you jump. If I was going to order a bator for just a few now and then... most bang for your buck in a brinsea... If I wanted more eggies.. 1588.. If I didn't care how many of my back yard mutts I hatch ..I would go LG and get the turner too.


sorry to ramble.. you should talk to me in person... that is worse.. ha ha

 

[kelseygirl707]

Some people love them and most seem to hate them. I had one as my first incubator and hated it, after only using it for 2 weeks I upgraded to the 1588 and LOVED IT! I now use an incubator I built, and it's even better than the 1588. IMO it's worth it to spend the extra Dollars to get a better incubator, you will get better hatches. Check out the Brinsea website, I have heard great things about them!

 

[cuckoo_orpington13]

I guess I'll just buy an incubator that's in good shape.
I'll let you guys know when I get some eggs or chicks!

 

[Karrie13]

I have an LG forced Air with auto turner and haven’t had much luck with it. Though I do know there are people on here that have had excellent results. So my luck could be because I have a bad unit, bad thermometer/hygrometer at first, bad incubation procedures, or just plain bad luck. Now I will state that all the eggs I have tried have been shipped eggs. Some of the boxes they arrived in looked like they were sat under an elephant.

I have done 3 hatch attempts. The first 23 made it to lockdown with 7 chicks hatch but 3 died from unknown causes after hatch. Second had 4 make it to lockdown with only one live chick – pipped at the pointy end and I had to help it out or it wouldn’t have even been here. The third and just finished had 17 make it to lockdown but only 5 live chicks hatched. So far they are doing good though. I now have a spot check thermometer so know my temperatures were good and calibrated they hygrometer prior to setting the eggs. This last hatch though, I had the fan and thermostat go out on day 21 after one hatched while I had 3 pips. I had to fix the thermostat fast and the temp only got down to 93 but the fan stayed off until after the hatch was complete. I lost several due to shrink wrapping – even though they hadn’t pipped yet. I don’t know why it quite but it now works fine. Very strange.