My son did an egg to chick project at school, so I was off on my hunt for the best incubator for a classroom of four-year-olds.
It had to have:
1. Easy operation, I mean the teacher shouldn't have to tinker with it at all. She only needed to add water with this model.
2. It had to do everything on it's own, I hadn't hatched eggs before so I needed a model that was preprogrammed with push button ease.
3. It had to be childproof, the room was filled with tiny little fingers that like to press buttons and such. This incubator has a nice touchpad control that basically locks once started. The kids could poke around on it and not harm the settings. THANK GOD!
4. Great visibility, the little people would want to watch the magic. Great top viewing on this model, I did tape the top closed after I found it slightly ajar once but the tape worked.
5. Easy to clean, duh dirty incubators stink. I couldn't imagine how much of a big deal this would be, I just open it up and soak all but the electrical piece in soapy bleach water in the sink. (The electrical piece gets a damp wipe-down with cleaning solution.) After a quick rinse and air dry it's perfectly clean and ready for more work. Do not underestimate the ability to properly clean your incubator, this should have been the first thing on the list and not the last, hindsight.
I trusted the wrong thermometer and thus my first hatch wasn't that great, but after I found a good bulb thermometer I've had excellent hatches.
Species menu covers everything (if you know that guineas and turkeys hatch about the same way) and it really couldn't be any easier.
This model makes me look like I know what I'm doing!
It had to have:
1. Easy operation, I mean the teacher shouldn't have to tinker with it at all. She only needed to add water with this model.
2. It had to do everything on it's own, I hadn't hatched eggs before so I needed a model that was preprogrammed with push button ease.
3. It had to be childproof, the room was filled with tiny little fingers that like to press buttons and such. This incubator has a nice touchpad control that basically locks once started. The kids could poke around on it and not harm the settings. THANK GOD!
4. Great visibility, the little people would want to watch the magic. Great top viewing on this model, I did tape the top closed after I found it slightly ajar once but the tape worked.
5. Easy to clean, duh dirty incubators stink. I couldn't imagine how much of a big deal this would be, I just open it up and soak all but the electrical piece in soapy bleach water in the sink. (The electrical piece gets a damp wipe-down with cleaning solution.) After a quick rinse and air dry it's perfectly clean and ready for more work. Do not underestimate the ability to properly clean your incubator, this should have been the first thing on the list and not the last, hindsight.
I trusted the wrong thermometer and thus my first hatch wasn't that great, but after I found a good bulb thermometer I've had excellent hatches.
Species menu covers everything (if you know that guineas and turkeys hatch about the same way) and it really couldn't be any easier.
This model makes me look like I know what I'm doing!
