I finally got tired of fiddling with my LG bator and having crummy hatches and built a wine cooler incubator. It holds the turner from the LG perfectly and cost maybe $300 including the stand it's on. It's working really well so far, but without finding the wine cooler on craigslist for $45 it...
I'm going to have to drop out of the hatch-a-long
My new incubator needs a few more tweaks before I set eggs, so I'll have to wait for the weekend.
It will be fun seeing everyone's peeper pics though.
I have 6 thermometers in mine now, one mercury, one analog dial that is made for reptile enclosures, one that beams to a desktop display, one from incubator warehouse that sits inside, one from incubator warehouse with a temp/humidity probe, and the probe attached to the incukit unit. None of...
I'm just now getting things calibrated on my spiffy new home made wine cooler incubator. I sure hope it works, cuz I'm planning to test hatch a turner full of Olivers! Can't wait for Wednesday, but I probably will have to set mine either before or after work.
Count me in!
I am part way into my wine cooler - incubator project, so this will be good incentive to finish it and to a test run.
I'll be hatching from 2 pens of Olivers (Ameraucana roo + dark egg layers and BCM roo + Ameraucana hens), plus a few test hatches of my barnyard specials.