Nurture Right 360 is trash

[cmobley]

I might have missed it, but is your incubator in a temperature stable room at about 70 degrees? The thermometers you're checking it against were calibrated and calibrated correctly? And re-calibrated recently?

I bought mine May of 2020 and I love it. It's sooo stable and reliable. I check it with multiple thermometers and it's always at 98.7-99.5 at all spots in the incubator. Cooler is always better and since I usually incubate duck eggs in mine 98 is great. I have over a thousand worth of eggs in mine right now, that's how much I trust it. I have two other Brinseas as well and they just aren't as good. I had two of those magicfly/janoel 12 ones and they worked ok for a while, again with constant tinkering to keep the temp stable, until one day about a year after I got them, they both freaked out and cooked my eggs. I can't get them to work at all now, they just went bad. I've used my NR 360 hard since I got it, running it from late April until August these past two years, and it's still perfect.

Got my interest what exactly are you hatching that’s eggs are worth thousands? Just wondering.

 

[MGG]

Got my interest what exactly are you hatching that’s eggs are worth thousands? Just wondering.

Well my incubator is full of ornamental waterfowl eggs right now, Mandarin duck eggs, Wood Duck eggs, cinnamon teal eggs, green winged teal eggs, and northern pintail eggs.
I don't sell eggs or chicks unless local but the price for any of those species would be $50 each. That's what I bought my original birds for. I have I believe 38 duck eggs in mine right now, 38 times 50 is $1,900.

 

[cmobley]

Well my incubator is full of ornamental waterfowl eggs right now, Mandarin duck eggs, Wood Duck eggs, cinnamon teal eggs, green winged teal eggs, and northern pintail eggs.
I don't sell eggs or chicks unless local but the price for any of those species would be $50 each. That's what I bought my original birds for. I have I believe 38 duck eggs in mine right now, 38 times 50 is $1,900. View attachment 3491211

That’s awesome my son wants me to get into the wood and mandarin ducks but I’m not set up for it.

 

[junior67]

Figured I would share my last hatch. I had 16/18 hatch. 2 quit between days 3-7... But one had a dented crack in the shell to start and I put wax over and figured I would try it anyways since it was a shipped egg. That was one of the quitters. So if I count that in my hatch rate then it was 89%. If I don't then it was 94%. 4 of those were shipped eggs. All that went into lockdown hatched with no problem.

I have a govee to track temp and humidity. Attaching a pic of it for days 1-18. Some of the major dips are from candling, the extremely low ones. But u can see dips and spikes. But average temp was 99.4. Ave humidity was 44.1. This is what I focus on is the overall average. And this is how all my hatches are.

 

[The Birb King]

I can see your side. I was having good luck with it until my last 2 batches. My last hatch I ran 3 weeks ago only 8 chicks hatched out of 22 eggs! I sold them all to a friend that wanted them. Today is hatch day for this hatch and only 5 hatched so far with one more on the way. The other eggs don't look like they will hatch. That is only 6 chicks out of 22 eggs! Someone else wanted to buy 6 chicks. I said yes thinking I would get a much better hatch rate. Now I probably have to sell all 6 I wanted to keep at least 2 to give to my broody hen. Very frustrating!

 

[The Birb King]

I think it's because the egg turner wasn't working but I'm not sure

 

[Dinosaur Village Keeper]

I think it's because the egg turner wasn't working but I'm not sure

It’s because the incubator has very hot and very cold spots. I put thermometers in each egg slot and recorded the data every hour over several days. In some locations, the eggs are in temps just above 98° for a couple of hours and then instantly rotate into nearly 101° for a couple of hours. I think your strongest eggs (good genetics, healthiest, parents, and cleanest eggs) can probably hold up to this, but it kills more than it doesn’t. I will probably be bashed again for saying anything bad about this incubator. I actually purchased a second one because I was told I had a faulty one. Both of them had the same horrible hot and cold spots. It seems this is only a problem with incubators purchased after 2020. If you hand turn the eggs and avoid the slots that are “death zones” you will probably have great success. But if you have your incubator calibrated based on a reading from one of the cold spots, note that your temps when the eggs hit the bad spots, will go from 99.5 - 102.5. The temperature on the incubator is a joke all around.

 

[junior67]

It’s because the incubator has very hot and very cold spots. I put thermometers in each egg slot and recorded the data every hour over several days. In some locations, the eggs are in temps just above 98° for a couple of hours and then instantly rotate into nearly 101° for a couple of hours. I think your strongest eggs (good genetics, healthiest, parents, and cleanest eggs) can probably hold up to this, but it kills more than it doesn’t. I will probably be bashed again for saying anything bad about this incubator. I actually purchased a second one because I was told I had a faulty one. Both of them had the same horrible hot and cold spots. It seems this is only a problem with incubators purchased after 2020. If you hand turn the eggs and avoid the slots that are “death zones” you will probably have great success. But if you have your incubator calibrated based on a reading from one of the cold spots, note that your temps when the eggs hit the bad spots, will go from 99.5 - 102.5. The temperature on the incubator is a joke all around.

mine fluctuates a lot but is calibrated based on the average temp. I have amazing hatch rates even with the fluctuation. I mainly do shipped eggs and get 85-100% hatch rates. I have quail in there now. I put 9 in that someone gave me. 2 had cracks I didn't see till I candled on day 3, so 1 of those quit the other is still going, and 1 egg had a detached air cell so that never started. I still have 7 going on day 9. So we will see how they do with hatching. and the 2 that didn't make it I can't blame the incubator for.

 

[Bicoastal]

I have I believe 38 duck eggs in mine right now,

Do you pack 'em in and then hand turn? Not use the egg turner with its 22 slots?

Or was this photo to share and not how you actually incubate them?

 

[MGG]

Do you pack 'em in and then hand turn? Not use the egg turner with its 22 slots?

Or was this photo to share and not how you actually incubate them?

No that's how I actually incubate. I have even more in it right now, haha. Yes, I hand turn five times a day.