Little GIant vs. Homemade bator

[victor1800]

Wow quick reply, hey I got the egg turner with little giant any problems with that? Yes I am planning on setting up tomorrow to start getting temp and humidity set. Going to put in a room that is stable temp all the time also. Thanks Victor

 

[Petej]

No issues with little Giant Egg turners.

Mines motor is locked up, but upon looking at it, I can see corrosion inside, so I just need to clean it.....

 

[Baralak]

I do have a project that I could use them for.. Sorta unrelated to hatching.. You know me.. My Brinsea Vs 1602n.. I was going to do LG vs 1602n vs Brinsea.. but my LG didn't work.

I plan on another VS as soon as this hatch finishes..

It will be the LG VS ???? I have some more bators that friends are letting me use for another VS. It will be the 1588 VS LG(Yours) VS Brinsea Mini Eco

The second I want to re engineer to make it more reliable..

My wife will say that I'm bringing my work home.

 

[Petej]

How do you rule out the discrepancies, like infertile eggs and initial hatch rates?

There's a science to it, but how?

 

[Baralak]

Well.. First of all that is an unexpected variable in all clutches, and an non-controllable.

The easiest way to ensure the best rate of fertility is to only get your eggs from a source you have had a high fertility rate from.

The group that is in there currently came from Grambys farm which did a test hatch before she sent me her eggs. She had 90% fertile eggs, so mine were the same. Out of 22 set only 20 were fertile.

The point of the vs is to compare the mechnical attributes to the incubator, with the progress of the known fertile eggs. Since I candle on day 5 which is early I know, but I do this to seperate the potiential infertile eggs at that time. I pull and do an eggtopsy on day 7 to verify if it was fertile. Tonights observation was that for some reason the Brinsea's air sac's were just a little larger than the Hova's.

I will repeat this test and compare to this test with the eggs coming from the same location. So after the 1588 VS.. you will see once again the 1602n V Octagon 20 Eco V2.0

I also chart the temps taken 3 times daily.. I need to take a pic.. Right now I have 5 Thermometers in the hova, and 4 in the Brinsea.. Looks like a science experiment gone bad. I'm not looking at the temp, just the variance.. For example when the Hova gets really low on water, it indicated that by changing the internal temp on 4 of the 5 thermometers by .8 degrees on all of them, not just one. Once water was reintroduced into the pan, the temps (and after it became stable) the temps fell by .8.. Very interesting.. I also have 2 thermometers out side each bator for room temp variance readings.

 

[Petej]

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That's not Science, that's an art!

Sounds like you have it all worked out. The Scientific method will prevail on all accounts.

Can't wait to see the results.

 

[Hanna101]

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Yeah i do Dad um go and oh almost forgot

yeah and uh could you tell me how many egg you got???

 

[ZooMummzy]

Just another reason not to get the LG....last night when I went to bed my LG set up as a hatcher this weekend was sitting at 70-71% for humidity (that has been the ideal setting for hatches for me). Water looked good, paper towels were wet, etc so I didn't mess with it. This morning I get up and the thing is at 46%, everything dried up! The Brinsea, still at 40% (in incubation stage still) - same room, some conditions. It kills me.

 

[Cold Canadian]

? No problems with my LG ?? keeps a consistant temp , humidity is not a issue ( keep vents closed till lock down , will be installing a hose so I can add water with out lifting the lid ). I keep mine in a room where there is no traffic and the room temp is a consistant as well .I have had great hatch's , and a few bad ones ( blame those on the seller of the eggs ...FIRTILE !!! I don't think so !!

 

[MrsPinkKitty]

wouldnt trust anything but my hovabator hehehehe