Rcom Suro King Incubator official thread ***HIGH ALERT***see post 93

[1-duckling]

Welcome to the club Shella! May your hatching days be many and the joy last throughout your life.

You've picked the right forum to live and learn all about our feathered friends.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

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I have had my fan start making a loud noise when I take the lid off to candle, etc. But I just give it a little thump and it quits. The only problem I've had with mine is that the power will go off because the plug that goes into the bator gets a tiny bit loose. I now have taped it securely so it can't come loose.

 

[shella]

i would just like to say a big thank-you to youall for making me feel so welcome.

 

[Nodaksnakelover]

I finally got around to putting mine together and am going to try to hatch out some eggs. Am trying to regulate the temp now. When I first got it going, the display said 99.5 but the digital thermometers I placed on the floor with probes to different spots in the incubator all showed two to three degrees less! So I am working on getting the floor temps to show higher. Am considering just using the egg cartons to incubate the eggs in. As these eggs are all different sizes. Thanks for the ideas guys!

 

[shella]

i love my king suro 20 after a really bad start. It is truly a plug and play bator. i have my 6th lot of eggs in and they are due to hatch 7th DEC. i have failed 5 times. but for the first time when i candled these eggs i saw movement i nearly dropped the egg. some of the air sacks look wrong to me. but having nothing to compare it to i'm winging it so fingers crossed.

 

[ColeyPoultry]

Sadly I didn't have a great hatch this time round (I'm using the King Suro 20).

This is my fourth time at incubation and each time, my experience seems to have gotten worst and worst.

This time round, I had set the Suro on 'factory settings' and had only 1 chicks out of 16 bantam eggs and 1 chick out of 2 LF eggs.


At the beginning (the first time I've used this Suro), I didn't have the instruction sheet at hand because it went missing on me *I suspected that one of my little kids took off with it while I was unpacking the box* I had to googled for information on incubation (time consuming and definitely not easy to find at the time) but I remembered having the settings higher than what was recommended on the instruction sheet (after it was finally found) and I think I had the Suro at 103.5F?

By the time I found the instruction sheet, I've already had a reasonably good hatch with my 1st experience at incubation (I did had 2 chicks stuck on one side on their shell (interior). But then I saw that 'my settings' were much higher than what was stated on the instruction sheet? *I'm still so kicking myself for not noting down what I've done.*

The 2nd and 3rd attempts at incubation weren't that great because I tried to find the 'happy medium' between the Suro's factory settings and my 'trying-to-guessed-what-it-was' settings (I was, at that stage, trying to avoid having chicks getting stuck on one side their shells).

This time (the 4th time), I've decided to go by 'factory settings' and let the Suro do its work, allowing myself to get involve only to stop the rotation and rise the humidity on the 18th day.

On the 21st day, only one chicks hatched! darn!
Day 22, one LF chick hatched.
Day 23, I decided to candle unhatched eggs and saw that none got pass the 1st membrane. I, carefully, opened one egg up and found one chick dead. I checked the next one and the next ine after that, and so on. They were all dead. Urghhh!

I was at a crossroad when thankfully one of the breeders (very supportive) was still willing to provide me more eggs (or chicks).
I've decided to give incubation one more go but this time I've invested in a proper incubator hygrometer/thermometer device to monitor the interior conditions of my Suro (I'm currently waiting for its arrival through the post). I will not use 'factory settings' as it is probably no good for doing bantam eggs(?).


So out of interest and curiousity, for incubating 'true' bantams' eggs, what settings did you have your Suro for incubation during 18 days and after rotation stops? Are the settings different for doing large fowls' eggs?

*sorry for such long-winded post, I just wanted to 'let go!'*

 

[Bat Cave Silkies]

I loved my Rcom at first; after 3 months of use the love relationship is over.

The fan started making a horrible noise, so I took it off, blew all the chickies fuzz out of it, and it didn't make any noise for a while...

2 weeks ago I started a new batch (close to $200 worth of bought eggs in it). Everything seemed to be going well....temp stayed between 99.5 and 100.5....humidity showed it was 42%. So---day 7 and I go to candle....eggs felt a bit cool when I opened the bator.....only 7 eggs showed any veining, and it wasn't the type of veining I normally see on day 7. Put TWO thermometers and hygrometers in and close it back up. The d@mn thing was waaayyyy off....temp was only 93 and humidity was only 30%

No wonder nothing was developing!!

For $375 I expect the product to operate properly for more than 3 months.....mine's being shipped back for a refund

 

[ColeyPoultry]

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Whoa! That is terrible!! So sorry to hear of such misfortune!! I can't wait for my hygro/thermo' device to arrive and see what is happening with mine!
And I so agree with you, for something so darn expensive, it should last for more than 3 months for the amount of money paid for it! I've paid $495(NZD) for mine! *I wonder how long the warranty is for?*

 

[kathyinmo]

I am sorry to hear of these bad experiences. I thank you, though, for posting for us who were considering the same purchase.

 

[shella]

hi batcave
after reading your post i checked mine and i too felt my eggs and they felt a bit on the cold side. the darn thing won't let me go higher than 38c it keeps beeping. could see no movement but set it at 99.5f just have to wait and see. thank you i wouldn't have checked it otherwise.