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Incubators

#1 User is offline   tadger 

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Posted 04 May 2009 - 01:01 PM

Hi can anybody recommend any decent incubators and what price i should be expecting to pay
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Posted 05 May 2009 - 10:28 AM

the RCOM suro is the best one i have found, im planning to order my first one you see, it does everything automatically and is £170

you get what you pay for with bators i have been told
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Posted 05 May 2009 - 10:45 AM

hi,..i have used several incubators.....


im currently using a brinsea octage advance.....i paid £160


used it twice and have a 100% hatch rate
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Posted 05 May 2009 - 11:04 AM

I'll put a second vote in for the brinsea octagon range, i have used the 10 and the 20, currently using a 20 pro with auto turner, and its a cracking bit of kit,well worth the money.
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Posted 05 May 2009 - 01:36 PM

yep octagon 20 with auto turn cradle for me too! got it off of fleabay a few years ago for about £80 or so but brilliant incubator for me - get 24 large fowl eggs in no problem! :victory:
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Posted 05 May 2009 - 01:38 PM

how do you control the humidity in the brinsea?
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Posted 05 May 2009 - 01:42 PM

Hi there ive used the rcom incubator and the octagon 20s new version and old the best one i could reccomend to you is a brinsea polyhatch its a still air incubator and they should last you a good few years they have always gave me good resluts and there easy to use they cost around £200
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Posted 05 May 2009 - 01:44 PM

I have a wet bulb thermomer which relates directly to humidity at a given temperature. You have water in a channel in the base of the machine. I then adjust the vent - close it slightly to increase and vise versa. If I want to increase humidity more i.e. during last few days I put water in the second channel also. All seems to work OK. They do an automatic control device apparantly?
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Posted 05 May 2009 - 07:11 PM

i have just bought a 1500egg incubator, i also have a brinsea polyhatch - that was a good one but couldt fit enough eggs in, i even made onem out of an old fridge, digital thermostat, it holds about 400 pheasant eggs, manual turn (pain in the arse), my hygrometer broke so i bought the 1500egg one then that will do everything for me,
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