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[Robo]

Do yourself a favor and get a Brinsea...

 

[JJMR794]

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SORRY KID BUT TSC ISNT EXACTLY BIRD FARMER MECCA.... AND OF COURSE THE REVIEWS YOU READ ON THEIR SITE ARE ALL GOING TO BE GOOD ABOUT THE PRODUCT THEY SELL.... IF THEY ARENT TSC NEEDS A NEW WEB MASTER

 

[JJMR794]

HERE'S THE UGLY TRUTH... AND IF YOU WANT COME ON DOWN AND I WILL SHOW YOU IN PERSON AS I HAVE MORE THAN 1 OF THESE IN USE AT THIS TIME...

LG'S MAKE A DECENT COOLERBATOR FOR CHICKEN EGGS---- FOR ANY GAMEBIRD EGGS THEY SUCK!

TSC SELLS FOR 48-58 BUCKS DEPENDING ON YOUR LOCATION--- HERE THEY'RE 54 AND SOME CHANGE

NOW YOU NEED A TURNER, THATS ANOTHER 54 BUCKS BUT WAIT THAT HAS THE CHICKEN EGG RACKS, SO YOU NEED THE QUAIL RACKS TO MAKE YOUR TURNER WORK FOR YOU.... THATS ANOTHER 20-30 BUCKS AND YOU'LL HAVE TO ORDER THEM AND WAIT

LETS NOT SPLIT HAIRS ABOUT REGIONAL PRICES... LETS JUST SAY 50 FOR THE COOLERBATOR, 50 FOR THE TURNER, AND 30 FOR THE QUAIL RACKS INC SHIPPING (AND IF YOU CAN GET THESE PRICES YOU'RE DOING PRETTY GOOD) SO FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF 130 BUCKS YOU GET A MEDIOCRE AT BEST AND HORRIBLE FOR HUMIDITY SENSITIVE SPECES LIKE GAMEBIRDS, COOLERBATOR SET UP... MADE WITH CHEAP COMPONENTS OUT OF STYROFOAM.....


GO TO BRINSEA'S WEBSITE AND ORDER A OCTAGON 20 WHICH WILL HOLD MORE EGGS IF YOU KNOW HOW TO DO IT AND INCUBATE LIKE A DREAM FOR 99 BUCKS + SOMETHING LIKE 30 BUCKS SHIPPING..... ITS SET IT AND FORGET IT! WHOLE DISMANTLES AND FITS IN YOUR MOM'S DISHWASHER FOR CLEANING--- DUE TO THEIR DESIGN NO TURNER IS NEEDED AND NO QUAIL RACKS EITHER--- BOOM! DONE! 1 STOP SHOPPING AND FOR THE SAME OR LOWER PRICE YOU GET A SUPERIOR PIECE OF EQUIPMENT THAT WILL BE EASY TO SELL IF YOU CHOOSE TO LIQUIDATE IT LATER DOWN THE ROAD

 

[thekid]

so it turns eggs automatically?

 

[thekid]

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sorry bout that i was wondering should i get the eco or advance?

 

[JJMR794]

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THE STANDARD 1 DOES NOT... THE EGGS FIT INSIDE IT AND SINCE IT IS AN OCTAGON SHAPED TUBE YOU SIMPLY ROLL/ TURN THE ENTIRE UNIT FROM 1 FLAT SPOT TO ANOTHER 2-3 TIMES A DAY... SO YOU ARE HAND TURNING, BUT ITS NOT LIKE ACTUALLY HAND TURNING IN ANOTHER TYPE OF INCUBATOR. THEY SELL AN AUTOTURN CRADLE FOR THEM BUT IT ADDS TO THE PRICE AND ISNT NECESSARY WITH THE OCTAGON MODELS.... GO TO THEIR WEBSITE AND CHECK THEM OUT

http://www.brinsea.com/

 

[Sweetfolly]

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THE STANDARD 1 DOES NOT... THE EGGS FIT INSIDE IT AND SINCE IT IS AN OCTAGON SHAPED TUBE YOU SIMPLY ROLL/ TURN THE ENTIRE UNIT FROM 1 FLAT SPOT TO ANOTHER 2-3 TIMES A DAY... SO YOU ARE HAND TURNING, BUT ITS NOT LIKE ACTUALLY HAND TURNING IN ANOTHER TYPE OF INCUBATOR. THEY SELL AN AUTOTURN CRADLE FOR THEM BUT IT ADDS TO THE PRICE AND ISNT NECESSARY WITH THE OCTAGON MODELS.... GO TO THEIR WEBSITE AND CHECK THEM OUT

http://www.brinsea.com/

I have 2 of the Brinsea Ocatgon 20 ECO's - one with the optional auto-turning cradle and one without that I'm hand-turning 3 or 5 times a day. I have 99 Coturnix eggs split between them right now. The temperature and humidity are exactly the same in both of them at the moment. So, we'll see if having the auto-turner improves the hatch rate at all!

And just a quick thing about the LG 'bator - I have one of those too, it was given to my by a friend who wanted me to hatch some chicks for him last spring when all my other 'bator's were full. The LG does NOT hold a stable temperature. With the Brinseas, I can adjust them to 99.5 and they hold steady for the entire incubation period, even when I'm changing the humidity around or when we adjust the heat or the air conditioning in the room. With the LG, if you turn the heat in your house up a few degrees, the 'bator's going to spike up in temperature. If you turn the air conditioning on, the 'bator temperature drops. And then it's a pain in the butt to try to adjust the thing back to the correct temperature, and it ends up swinging all over the place. The ONE time I incubated in an LG, I only had a 25% hatch rate (compared to a 95% rate in my Brinsea's that same week) AND one of the chicks hatched with his intestines spilling outside of his body (which I believe was due to the numerous temperature spikes during incubation).

So, like everyone else said, the Brinsea's are unbeatable. For the price, you have a reliable incubator that'll hatch pretty much any bird species for you. This is my first run with quail eggs in mine (a quick candling last night showed that there's something growing in most of the eggs), but I've been hatching chickens and ducks in them for over a year now - almost every egg that's developed has hatched, and all the birds that hatched have been perfectly healthy.

 

[deerman]

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My 2 cent worth yes a good used dickey or sportsman used most under 200.00 i have some i payed 125.00 for.....these work for years i have one for over 20 years.........don't spend 100.00 on a LG and turner