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My sister-in-law found this incubator for $5 at a garage sale, and gave it to me. I know it was made for poultry, but that's about it. It looks really sturdy (metal construction)! It's pretty large and it is round - kinda like a couple of 6-8" tall sections of a 55gal drum!

The sticker on it says:
Catalog No. 846
Model No. 11670-3
Volts 120 Cycle 60 A.C.
817G Incubator

It says it was made by the Brower Manufacturing Company in Quincy, IL. After I looking up the company online, I found out that it was purchased/merged with Hawkeye Steel Products, Inc. - and I do have the company's contact info, which I will use to request a new owner's manual.

I just wanted to ask and see if anybody in the BP world has heard of this and maybe used one?

Thanks,
~Rebecca
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0.1 Dumeril's Boa '04 (Courtney)
1.2 Ball Pythons
[1.0 '05 Orange Hypo (Specter)]
[0.1 '05 Het Orange Hypo (Sylvia)]
[0.1 '03 Normal (Sue)]
0.2 American Pit Bull Terriers (40lb darling lap dogs:Brandy&Mara)

poultry incubators are made in alot of shapes and sizes........some are for hatching thousands of eggs at a time....

anyways..........ANYTHING that holds a temp at 89 degrees can be used to hatch snake eggs........some things are just too big to be worth actually doing it........

is the wiring safe?........will it short out?........will it keep a temo for 60 days?......

chicken eggs hatch in 21 days at 101 degrees I think.......pheasants at 102 degrees?.......some birds even a degree warmer......

........good luck.........Hova-bators are cheap ........work for me........

...and with the steel drum -bator......go out and build a pen and start raising Reeve's pheasants........sweet.......Amhearsts'?.........silver......?
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...........all you have to do is try it........
...........studies are fun.............

Fire it up, and let it run for a week or two. Like jyohe said, s'long as it hovers within a degree of 89 it works. Lol, some people are using friges if I remember correctly.

I'd be suspicious of something like that for five bucks. if it's as big as you say, that probably cost at least a hundred bucks (well, I think it would, around here it'd cost that much).

~jenny
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1.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, and Periscope)
0.2 rescue chinese water dragons (Yoni and Linga)
0.0.1 Mountain Horned Lizard
1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)
1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)
0.1 mice (Cute Girl Mousy)
0.1 bunny (Spazz)
1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)
2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)
1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)
1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)
3.0 horses (Buddy, Sam, and Scout)
1.0 goat (Billy Jack)
0.0.1 chupacabra (it ate our chickens)

jenny.thegreenes.org

It's odd the specs don't mention wattage (or amps). But I guess it must be pretty low unless it is some big commercial contraption.

I don't know anything about that particular incubator, but when I built an incubator around 25 years ago I bought a wafer-style thermostat from Brower Manufacturing Co. It performed the way it was supposed to until this year when I finally bought a new incubator just for the heck of it mostly.

I suspect a wafer thermostat is what controls the heat in your incubator. Hook it up and give it a whirl under the same conditions you expect to use it for snake eggs. Make sure you have at least one accurate thermometer to always double check your temps. And, of course, make sure you don't use any of the devices that poultry hatchers use to turn the eggs.

-Joan