Can you use a chicken egg incubator for corn snake eggs?

[brokenchinadoll]

I know this may sound stupid, but I'm just startin out,

The NEW Cov 6 and Cov 12 Incubators: -
Bulb style incubators

Cov 6 & 12 red (1852A4)

A very economical small / starter machine. Heat is supplied by a 15w bulb which “ flickers” Temperature is internally regulated. (This machine is not supplied with a thermometer.) The Cov 6 will hold up to 6 hen eggs while the Cov 12 is larger and will hold up to 12. This small incubator is ideal for people just starting or the specialist with a few eggs to hatch.



Would that be ok to incubate a first clutch in? If I bought a thermometer obviously!

Thanks for your help!

 

[corn_breeder]

hey good idea

hey thats a good i dea i'm not sure if its safe or what not. but if anyone knows let me know i would like to start breeding one day

 

[nehpets1]

I know that hovabator incubators work well and are recommended by Kathy Love. I would say that as long as it doesn't have a fan, the incubator will work well.

But I incubated my clutches this year in a styrofoam cooler sitting at the highest point of my snake room and had a high birth rate from my eggs.

Corn snakes are resilient creatures, and they really don't need much extra effort on our part to make it. They seem to thrive as long as we don't try to over regulate them.

 

[brokenchinadoll]

Ok thanks so much for your help, I think I will definatley need an incubator as it's freezing down here at the moment (and to be honest most of the year) but all your help is greatly appreciated!

 

[vanderkm]

Chicken eggs need to be moved during incubation so the incubators may be set up to move the eggs. Snake eggs should not be moved, so this could be a problem - something you might want to check out before buying it. The other thing to determine is the temperature range that the incubator can be set at - I expect that it has a thermostat even if it doesn't show the temperature with a thermometer.

You can make a very effective incubator from an insulate cooler, an aqaruim heater and something to suspend the egg boxes on - cost is minimal and they work great. This one holds 8 clutches of corn eggs - you just need to cut a notch in the lid for the cords to come out.

there is water in the bottom, a submersible fish tank heater in the water (at the front of the picture) and then eggs in the little tubs.

It can maintain 82-85 degrees and 100% humidity very stable - costs about $50.

mary v.

 

[Ssthisto]

I have a Covatutto 12 incubator, which I bought in 2004 to incubate gecko eggs with.

In 2004, using the Covatutto, I had around 10 eggs laid and one live hatchling.
In 2005, using the Covatutto, I had around 20 eggs laid and one live hatchling.
In 2006, using a plastic box with moist eco-earth set on a shelf at the cool end of a gecko viv (the highly scientific 'bung 'em in a box and let 'em get on with it, you can hardly have worse results than the last two years...' method), I have had around 45 eggs laid, 25 live hatchlings so far, two dead-at-hatch hatchlings, some acceptable egg losses from first-year-breeding girls and eight good eggs to go.

I'm of the belief that the Covatutto, being powered by a light bulb, may 'scorch' the eggs when the bulb is on and allow them to get too cool when it's off.

 

[paulh]

I took a quick look at the Cov 6 and Cov 12 incubators, but the web pages I looked at did not have their dimensions. Just from the looks, I am inclined to think that they are too small for incubating snake eggs. On the other hand, I think Hovabators are barely borderline for incubating snake eggs, so YMMV.