The Moonshiner's Bootleg Incubator Reviews And Discussions

[Hedgeland Farms]

Ummm soo ...maybe I should have checked temp with an extra thermometer while eggs were in...literally just turned day 19 and I have a pip!

Hopefully it'll hatch out into a healthy, formed, strong chick..

@The Moonshiner ill be curious to see if yours start early...I know you've been monitoring your temp more then I have mine

 

[The Moonshiner]

Ummm soo ...maybe I should have checked temp with an extra thermometer while eggs were in...literally just turned day 19 and I have a pip!

Hopefully it'll hatch out into a healthy, formed, strong chick..

@The Moonshiner ill be curious to see if yours start early...I know you've been monitoring your temp more then I have mine

Oh I've just been going by what the incubator says. I haven't checked it with a seperate thermometer.

 

[Hedgeland Farms]

Oh I've just been going by what the incubator says. I haven't checked it with a seperate thermometer.

Oh, I thought I read early you had a separate thermometer..however...between here and hatching groups on fb...I am sure my mind got jumbled....

Now I am really curious to see when yours start...


I've been running mine at 99.5 and 37-40 till yesterday ..bumped it to 65

Are you running abt the same??

 

[The Moonshiner]

I'm set at 99.5 and I've yet to see it not showing 99.5
I'm dry hatching and when I have looked it's been as low as 30 and as high as 50. It's mostly been around 35 to 40.

 

[Patiocoturnix]

I’m incubating quail in my cheap incubator for the third time going good so far

 

[Patiocoturnix]

I’m incubating quail in my cheap incubator for the third time going good so far

26 developing and 5 clears.

 

[Hedgeland Farms]

I'm set at 99.5 and I've yet to see it not showing 99.5
I'm dry hatching and when I have looked it's been as low as 30 and as high as 50. It's mostly been around 35 to 40.

Dry hatching here too...
First go at it

I've seen mine pop to 100.5 once or twice...but its been pretty steady as well

 

[The Moonshiner]

Dry hatching here too...
First go at it

I've seen mine pop to 100.5 once or twice...but its been pretty steady as well

My NR360 is set at 100 and it mostly just hops back and forth from 99.5 to 100 constantly. I was suprised the Maticoopx didn't do something similar.
I should probably stick a thermometer inside both at some point just out of curiosity.

 

[Hedgeland Farms]

My NR360 is set at 100 and it mostly just hops back and forth from 99.5 to 100 constantly. I was suprised the Maticoopx didn't do something similar.
I should probably stick a thermometer inside both at some point just out of curiosity.

I ran mine empty for a wk with a thermometer and hydrometer in it...they all read the same...if it was off it was unnoticeable...
But I suppose the eggs growing and such can increase temp and humidity a bit...

I filled it up with eggs, so really I didn't have a place to put the ones I was using...

Maybe I'll grab the probe ones and use them next time....(I think just the metal probe goes inside the incubator..I really don't know as I haven't dug into them..just saw them on amazon)

Excited to hear abt your hatch...
I don't know anyone with a Maticoopx...

 

[Hedgeland Farms]

@The Moonshiner
Of the 20 eggs that made it to lock down I ended up with a 90% hatch rate on shipped eggs using the dry hatch method in the maticoopx 30

If you count all the eggs I started with (scrambled and clears included) it was 60%...

I am happy with my results...

All eggs hatched early starting on day 19 as tonight was supposed to be hatch day and I have no more eggs left