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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: 28jen28 on July 19, 2011, 05:09:16 pm

Title: incubator
Post by: 28jen28 on July 19, 2011, 05:09:16 pm

i have finallly saved enough to buy an incubator. i have about £180 that i can spend. what incubator would you recommend getting?

Title: Re: incubator
Post by: southwestpoultry on July 19, 2011, 06:21:04 pm

We can highly recommend the RCOM-20 we have 2 and are so easy to use.

Regards
Robert & Sarah.

South West Poultry.

Title: Re: incubator
Post by: little blue on July 19, 2011, 08:07:19 pm

I have a fully automatic Corti,  the instructions are badly translated & recommend too high humidity levels.... but value for money from the Incubator shop its great!

Title: Re: incubator
Post by: cooped-up on July 19, 2011, 09:25:37 pm

i have a brinsea and found it easy to use we have hatched 75% as an experiment using the dry method only adding water at the end 

Title: Re: incubator
Post by: Crofter on July 19, 2011, 10:26:51 pm

We have a brinsea octogon 20 with an autoturn cradle. We regularly get hatches of 20 out of 24 hen eggs with it. We've never had that high a success rate with the still air ones we've owned.

Dave

Title: Re: incubator
Post by: Eggs, Chicks & Hens on July 20, 2011, 06:13:43 pm

I too would say the R Com king Suro, great little inci, but make sure you get one that hatches the number of eggs you need, I had to upgrade  ;)

Title: Re: incubator
Post by: Beewyched on July 20, 2011, 07:11:50 pm

I'll add my vote for the RCom King - I've got the 20 size, but never seem to get more than 16 in it at a time, but it's very reliable & easy to use - can be pretty much left to it's own devices once set-up, until the last few days.