using a dickey hatcher as an incubator? anyone?

[LocoPollo]

Ok I gave in! I had no business doing it, but I just got off the phone with Dickey and should have my new incubator in a couple of days! I am gonna be soo overrun with chickies!

 

[minna]

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Oh, no, there is nothing wrong with mine, it works well and with the improvements I am working on it will work even better. I would just love to have a Dickey Incubator and use mine as a hatcher.

 

[hippichick]

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Well, it definitely works like a DREAM! It's practically worry-free. You pretty much set your eggs and almost forget about them for 18 days.

Paula

 

[the1much]

my next 1 will be a dickey,, i have a sportsman bator, hatcher, brooder,,, and hand turning 300+ eggs in the hatcher is almost like
w o r k

 

[hippichick]

I can't imagine hand-turning 300 eggs. That would drive me crazy!

Paula

 

[the1much]

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yup,, it did it to me

 

[hippichick]

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You are gonna love it! Congrats and Enjoy!

Paula

 

[alaskanhenhouse]

well i still don't know if the hovabator egg turners will fit in the dickey hatcher trays, but i did find that by the time i spend the money for all the turners and buy the used hatcher, i might as well have bought a new dickey incubator. so I'll hold off.

 

[jvls1942]

I built an incubator to accomodate 3 hovabator turners . I have also used hovabator turners in another bator I have.. You just have to have enough recepticles to plug them into.

as long as you have the room for
the turners, they will work..

I also have a couple of sportsmans
and I am quite sure the turners would fit into them.. I think the Dickie is almost identicle to the sportsman in size..

I say, go for it buy it .,,, you can always use it for a hatcher..

 

[hippichick]

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True, if it's a really good deal on the hatcher, you could just use it as a hatcher if you buy the incubator later.

Paula