We finally did it! We are now the proud owners of our very own HovaBator Genesis 1588 incubator. In the past when we needed to incubate eggs we either borrowed a friends incubator or we put eggs under a broody hen.
Thank you! to our friends that were so kind to lend their incubator to us. That was an amazing gift. We appreciate that very much. This year we are hoping to hatch duck, chicken and quail eggs. With all this activity we figured it was better to get one of our own.
HovaBator Genesis 1588: Unboxing & Set Up
Take a few minutes to watch this video of my charming daughter stepping through those exciting first moments of unboxing and setting up our HovaBator Genesis 1588. This is not a full detailed tutorial, but she does a great job of showing most of the steps to getting started right.
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Amazon link to the HovaBator Genesis 1588:
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Hi,
I’m the person u were showing ur property to today at the garage sale. The chickens I was trying to tell you about were the: Bielefelder (200+ extra large/jumbo brown eggs), Cream Legbar (heavy layer of blue eggs), & Blue Isbar (heavy layer of green eggs that sometimes have brown specks). I see on ur website u got an incubator. How’s that working for u? The eggs for these breeds are less than 1/3 $ but I’ve read that shipped eggs are not always reliable.
Charla
It was a pleasure meeting you. Thank you for those breed names. The incubator works fine for chicken eggs but not for duck eggs so far.
Great job! Thanks for sharing. I am looking forward to build my own incubator soon as well. This post gives me an excellent idea. Staying tuned for more.