INCUBATOR EGG CAPACITIES

• 0 - 30
• 31 - 100
• 101 - 1000
• 1001 and higher
• Hatcher Only Incubators
• Brooders

USED INCUBATORS

• Ecohatch Semi-Automatic
• Rotarex
• HatchRite 75 Emu Eggs
• DOMEX J1X - 25 Emu Eggs

Welcome to the About Us section of Dominion Incubators.

INCUBATOR SPREAD: = Locations of Clients and Associated Manufacturers.

To be the International one stop egg incubation source.

Our Objectives

• To ensure all visitors and customers receive the kind of service that meets their expectations, every time.

• To offer a wide range of products and services to meet the requirements of our customers.

• To ensure complete and prompt replies to queries and requests.

LONG ESTABLISHED & INTERNATIONALLY RESPECTED

Dominion Incubators Ltd was registered in 1957 and initially produced just small incubators for schools, universities, zoo aviaries, and hobbyists. Donald Bethune, a graduate of Massey University, is credited with the design and development of all hatchery equipment in the Company's range, and is currently the managing director. As every incubator and brooder was designed to meet the needs of specific user groups to achieve the maximum efficiency Dominion Incubators emerged as the leading Australasian manufacturer and exporter to private and specialist hatchery equipment mainly below the 10,000 egg threshold.

As a result the firm's reputation and business became more and more international, and some of the more popular models are now being produced in America, and England for the European market, to minimize freight and problems with Customs and Duties. Because so few businesses have a full background in incubation technology, and availability of various equipment in different countries, Dominion Incubators Ltd now also provides an advisory or brokering service to the international community, with links in UK, France, Spain and USA.

But not just limited to small machines. Whether you breed fighting cocks in the Philippines or want advice and a quotation for the supply of a 60,000 egg hatchery in Europe, either this firm can offer direct assistance, or put you in touch with another one who can.

Dominion Incubators has also a been member of the following organisations for many years: (Click on logo for information about the organisation)

email: admin@waikatochamber.co.nz, waikato@exportnewzealand.org.nz, snz@standards.co.nz

At Berrimah near Darwin, Rotarex Incubators provide accurately controlled conditions for tropical reptiles, while others nearby hatch native wildfowl eggs.

In Sydney, Maxiroll incubators are loaded with thousands of ordinary looking eggs, but they never hatch a chicken; instead they produce living material for making vaccines. In 1999 Dominion Incubators supplied incubators and portable brooders for hatching and transporting endangered turtles to safer sanctuaries on the Arabian Coast.

The spectrum of incubator sizes from this specialist Company is also exceptional. The transparent Minilab is only 150mm high, takes just a setting of eggs and regularly does its job in hundreds of classrooms and homes across Australasia. Its big brother weighs half a tonne, is 1.6 meters high, and has every function electronically controlled, with temperature to one-tenth of a degree.

After successfully entering the United Sates market, Dominion Incubators Ltd now supplies stock to the Americas. In particular, the complete Turn-X, Roll-X and Profi range of incubators are manufactured and warehoused in the USA with delivery times across the United States usually under one week. This brings the number of associated international distribution centers to five. Other countries are England, France, Spain and New Zealand.

Key Points in the History of Dominion Incubators.  

• After 2000 experimental hours the transparent “Minilab” turned up and hatched a dozen chickens in Room 10, Fairfield Primary School, with 5,000 Minilabs later, they are still being produced.

• Several years later, a 200-egg forced-air, auto-turning incubator was developed for Otago University, as one could not be found, even in USA or Europe. This was the birth of the Domex, with the patented Rotary Tray design. So many have been supplied to universities, zoos and research centres since then that invitations to tender for supply from institutions now short-cut the specification schedule down to 3 words: “Domex or equivalent”, with everyone knowing there is nothing similar.

• The Launch of www.dominc.net - Later on special 1,000 eggs and larger incubators were produced to meet relevant needs in N.Z., with some also going overseas. Then, with the initial emu and ostrich boom a special type of combination setter-hatcher to handle both those breeds was produced. When the demand surge for those ratite incubators eased off while the industry reorganized itself, leaving Dominion Incubators with spare capacity, Don installed a computer and hooked into the Internet. One initiative, now contributing towards the company bottom line, was designing a hobby sized incubator for the EEC Market and having it made in England under a Royalty Agreement. Simultaneously, reciprocal agencies were established with further overseas incubator manufacturers to enable Dominion Incubators to offer international clients a wider choice of machine types and sizes than any other firm.

• Even more importantly, this shop window is world-wide, and backed by a world authority on incubation with experience ranging from designing and installing automatic egg turning systems into the original 80,000 egg Williams Hatchery in Christchurch, to modifying English incubators to meet the needs of conservation hatchery in the U.A.E., salvaging an endangered species of Marine Turtle. (The project director was a Kiwi who had trained in N.Z. (DOC) salvage projects for endangered species.)

• American machines sold to Canada, Philippines, and Nigeria; U.K. built incubators, sold to Ecuador, Ghana and Arabia, and Spanish incubators to Trinidad and for 6,000 pheasant eggs to N.Z.

Contact Details

 Postal Address:

Email: info@dominc.net