NY chicken lover!!!!

[Cass]

I'm not necessarily bashing the LG, because I know very well it works great for others and that's what frustrates me. I can't get it working properly for my hatches. I've tried it in different rooms, different times of the year, dry hatches, adding water to it to get humidity in the 30's. Nothing has worked. So it's just not for me. If anyone is interested in it I will gladly ship it you for free if you pay shipping. ;-)

I will pretend I didn't read that. (do not need 'bator, do NOT need 'bator, Do need 'bator)

 

[Cass]

Can I just say something? Brand bashing or no, I prefer folks to discuss difficulties they've had with a certain incubator...if there are quite a few people having issues with a certain brand, I'd like to know that, so I can avoid wasting money on something that may give me the same issues many others have had.

I can't see why that's "brand bashing".

Even if it is "Brand bashing", I want to hear how people used the product, what worked, what didn't and why. I don't have a bunch of money to spend on chicken stuff and if someone had told me how plastic feeders got clogged with poop and metal waterers didn't do well with medication in the water I would not have spent any of my limited funds on those items. (Anyone want some leaky metal waterers? No? Neither do I. Grrr) I would have gotten plastic waterers, at the start and metal feeder PANS too. Cuz that is what I wound up with. And lots of things that don't work as well in storage "just in case".

 

[Pyxis]

Evening everyone. The four month olds are doing well outside. Today was gorgeous and I was sad I had to go to work. Seems like I have my first broody of the year, Penny, my buff orp. She is a very dedicated broody and she will get some eggs. The snow is receding and I may finally be able to get to work on finishing my new coop this weekend. I also hatched six beautiful silkies yesterday. All blue, strangely enough. Still waiting for the late goose egg to hatch. At this rate the eggs I set a week later than it will beat it.

On the LG topic, I agree that they are not the best incubators out there. To get them to work you often have to do some modifying and that is annoying. I know I started off with one, got annoyed quickly, and moved on to an easier to use incubator. Most people I know who use them, myself included, need to make some adjustments to get them to work for them, which is fine if you just want a cheapo incubator and are okay with the fact that you'll have to babysit it constantly. Mine, I won't use as anything other than a hatcher. I have zero luck with it as a main incubator, even after tampering with it, installing a fan, trying covering it with blankets to insulate it, etc etc. For some reason every egg I started in there would die. As a hatcher though it seems to be serving okay, with the exception that it is awful trying to keep up the humidity and I'm always nervously babysitting the temperature, which fluctuates as the humidity does for some reason. So I think it would work for someone who was willing to modify it, watch it constantly, and sacrifice some eggs to try to get it right. That's not for me though.

 

[Nuttyfrom6kids]

and that is exactly what was not being discussed. The "how people used the product, what worked, what didn't and why.Instead all we get is .....Just ...to paraphrase "don't buy them, they are crap".

If it were an intelligent conversation ...fine, but it is not. It is "don't buy them, they are crap". Which is just ...well crap

And when I add the "how people used the product, what worked, what didn't and why" it was made abundantly clear, it did not matter, as they are crap.

Excuse me but it was an intelligent conversation I did say and so did others what was wrong with them they do not hold steady temps and no I will not alter them by putting them in a box with insulation it is a tabletop incubator which is supposed to be able to plugged in and keep accurate temps no where does it say on the box or in the directions you have to put it in a box with insulation. If I have to do that I might as well not contribute to LG's profits and make a homemade incubator.

My question is if you had such great hatches in the beginning without putting it in a box with insulation then why did you put it in the box why would you even bother if the hatches were so good that you even went out and bought another? I know if I would have had great hatches with it I wouldn't have tried that.

They do not hold a steady temp when being used as they were intended to be used as, which is sit them on a table plug them in. Mine was in a room that has a very stable temps, I used an auto turner so it was not being opened and the temps were all over the place like I said previously and if you listen to what others here say about it and read the reviews that is common with them. My other bators have been used in the same room under the same conditions and I get great hatches with steady temps. The only 2 of my incubators that I can't say were used under the same conditions are my 2 with the auto humidification but the others that don't have it were and I get better than 90% on local eggs and better than 75% on shipped eggs with the LG I tried it numerous times and would be lucky to get 1 egg to hatch.

 

[Lapeerian]

I will pretend I didn't read that.  (do not need 'bator, do NOT need 'bator, Do need 'bator)

I'm telling myself the same thing and I'm within an hour driving distance lol

 

[featherz]

Speaking of incubators, firing up the brinsea this weekend to make sure it's still working (love my brinsea!!).. Anyone nearish saratoga/glens falls have eggs for anything interesting? NN would be awesome, or frizzles, or EE. Or pretty much anything LF - no bantams. (my three banties are precious but I worry they'll get beat up when I have to move them into the 'big house' coop.

 

[Lynzi777]

I've seen a couple of you state you've used the the LG as "nothing but a hatcher", what do you mean by that? You put the eggs in at the end and allow them to hatch in there but not spend the entire time developing in there?

 

[Nuttyfrom6kids]

Speaking of incubators, firing up the brinsea this weekend to make sure it's still working (love my brinsea!!).. Anyone nearish saratoga/glens falls have eggs for anything interesting? NN would be awesome, or frizzles, or EE. Or pretty much anything LF - no bantams. (my three banties are precious but I worry they'll get beat up when I have to move them into the 'big house' coop. 

I have been itching to get my other bators, (brinesa, genesis hovabator , or my r com love them all they are great incubators), going with some more eggs I am thinking some more different orpingtons I have blue, black, splash, buff, chocolate, lavender, white and jubilee want lemon cuckoo, and red next was looking at green fire site last night debating on whether to order some eggs or chicks I love my fat little orpingtons.

 

[Lynzi777]

Nutty, I might be interested in orpingtons from you later on...

 

[Nuttyfrom6kids]

Nutty, I might be interested in orpingtons from you later on...

Okay. They are just starting to lay again am gathering up eggs now from them to put in the bator fertility is always great each rooster gets 5-6 girls.