So i found a old hovabator....
I was cleaning and when i opened a box i found this incubator, i cleaned it a little bit, plug it in and i put a thermometer inside. The temp was fine until the temps outside the incubator started getting hotter (i live in Puerto Rico and many times the temps are 90° up) My grandfather hatched some chickens with this but never used it again. I want to know if is safe to use it. Like if its hold humidity good and if someone use this incubator for ball pythons eggs. If it dont work to incubate ball pythons eggs i dont care.
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Obviously i need to clean it better and change those screws but if it dont works for ball pythons eggs i wont do it lol
So i found a old hovabator....
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Originally Posted by
sho220
It should be fine as long as everything works and it doesn't rotate the eggs...some incubators that are designed to be used for chicken or bird eggs will rotate the eggs as they incubate.
No it dont have that thing that rotates the eggs
Re: So i found a old hovabator....
Its OK to use. But do not use the built in thermostat. It is highly inaccurate. You would have to use something like a Herpstat or other reliable thermostat to safely incubate eggs in a hovabator.
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Re: So i found a old hovabator....
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Originally Posted by
Brandon Osborne
Mark, you can put the eggs directly in the hovabator, as long as you also add the substrate as well. I have hatched everything from burms to balls to GTP in them. I used to use bigger, modified, shipping boxes for the base of a hovabator. I could fit 60 burmese eggs in one hovabator.
I used one once the same way with a clutch of burm eggs and ended up cooking them. Granted that's only one time so not a good representatioin, but I've also seen other people use them that way and lose their eggs. Hovabators don't seal very well and they can dry out quickly, especially in a dry environment. And the thermostats are really not that great. Personally I'd rather not chance it.