A cautionary tale for new buyers says Liz Fairbrother
A friend was given some hatching eggs but she had never had any experience of incubators. Looking online she saw there was a big difference in price. Not knowing what sort of price an incubator is normally, she compared what the details of them said they did and decided to go for the cheapest option. She decided to site the incubator in a cool room in the house and when it arrived, plugged it in. To her frustration, whatever she did, it would not get up to the temperature needed for incubation. She read the rather badly produced manual and tried again and again. Finally, when she had yet another go to get it to work, there was a crack and a smell of burning and the machine blew up. Luckily she was on hand to react and remove the machine – if not it could have caused a fire. Her house was well wired so her electricity cut out for safety which meant she had to reset it and re programme various appliances. When she tried to contact the sellers which was via ebay, they just told her to bin it and refunded the money.
Learning from her experience, she bought a well known brand of incubator from a company that offered after sales advice and help and has had a very good hatch subsequently.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة Jan - Feb 2018 من Practical Poultry.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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