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post #31 of 42
3/22/12 at 2:58am

Sweet, makes me hopeful my next big incubator project turns out. 

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http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hatch-cam-2012


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www.youtube.com/stoneschickens

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hatch-cam-2012


Keeping tabs on my five favorite birds and favorite bunnies.

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post #32 of 42
3/27/12 at 8:58pm
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"BATOR GONE WILD".....wee.gif.........OK, supposedly tomorrow was hatch day for my fridge bator but this crazy box started pipping 3 days ago and a total of 45 chicks hatched during this 3 days....this morning there were no chicks only 26 eggs remaining so i decided to candle....sad to say out of the 26 only 6 showed life inside the other 20 had stopped developing ....so only 6 remain in my fridge bator and appear to have made it to it's legit hatch day which is 28th - 29th.....so total 45 healty chicks + 6 possible new borns = a possible 51 chicks out of 71 eggs.......i guess it's not that bad!!!!!.............old.gif

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post #33 of 42
3/27/12 at 10:02pm
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Holy Cow!!! love.gif  My husband just peeked over my shoulder and said, "don't even think about it"...

 

 

mu-ha-ha-ha... I may have to take a trip to the dump!!!



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On a new journey... rural chicken farming to urban... wish me luck!

 

 

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post #34 of 42
3/28/12 at 4:49am

If you haven't tossed the ones you thought were duds, I'd leave them in for a few more days. Make sure they don't stink.

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post #35 of 42
3/28/12 at 7:08am
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good looking bator. One mans trash is another mans treasure. My thoughts on a fridge bator are to use the top for the heat source and fan, and the bottom for eggs. Does the computer fans move the heat enough to keep the temps constant? I'm going to make one from my old fridge and put moveable shelves in it for a turner. Keep us posted on your progress



I did this a while back, and got really cruddy temperatures near the eggs, Unless you have a REALLY powerful fan, I would place the heating element in the bottom if I were you.

On my profile I have a page about my fridge incubator, I don't have it any more, I now have a Homemade Cabinet incubator.

 

Here is a link to my thread about the cabinet incubator. (made from a shipping crate)

 

        http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/631721/homemade-cabinet-incubator-made-from-wooden-shipping-crate-picture-heavy

 

 

 

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, Let there be light! And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. Ellen DeGeneres   
also//////// Y'all also need to check out my homemade cooler incubator, my homemade fridge-a-bator, and my cabinet incubator on my BYC page.

 

http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/homemade-cabinet-incubator

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In the beginning there was nothing. God said, Let there be light! And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. Ellen DeGeneres   
also//////// Y'all also need to check out my homemade cooler incubator, my homemade fridge-a-bator, and my cabinet incubator on my BYC page.

 

http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/homemade-cabinet-incubator

http://www.backya...

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post #36 of 42
3/28/12 at 7:47pm
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hello....got one chick today of the remaining 6 on my fridge bator and 3 EE pipping.......bow.gif........"Hail Be The Bator"

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post #37 of 42
3/29/12 at 8:06am


yea!! wee.gif
 

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hello....got one chick today of the remaining 6 on my fridge bator and 3 EE pipping.......bow.gif........"Hail Be The Bator"



 

On a new journey... rural chicken farming to urban... wish me luck!

 

 

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post #38 of 42
3/29/12 at 7:08pm


ANY MORE NEWS TO SHARE!?!?!?
 

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hello....got one chick today of the remaining 6 on my fridge bator and 3 EE pipping.......bow.gif........"Hail Be The Bator"



 

On a new journey... rural chicken farming to urban... wish me luck!

 

 

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post #39 of 42
3/29/12 at 8:52pm
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4 chicks out of the 6 remaining.....last 2 pipping.....hopefully they'll be out by tomorrow.....i was just given 90 eggs, i'll probably set them on saturday after readjusting my fridge bator......need to make several 3 shelves for cartons of incubating eggs and the bottom as hatching area.......will keep posted.......just candled the 45 eggs we set on the 21st, only 3 were unfertiled all others are developing.........ya.gif

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post #40 of 42
4/7/12 at 9:48am

You mtivated me to make my own refrigerator incubator. I was going topurchase a cabinet one but $800.00 OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!! So I got a free refrigerator, bought some plexiglass, had wood and screws alying around the house and so far so good!

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2012-04-06_19-37-16_186 framed for plexiglass window.jpg

 

$13.00 toatl so far with 2 hours of labor-taking all guts out and cutting window for plexiglass.

Ayda

Mother of 2 boys, 8 horses, 4 dogs, 3 cats, 36 (now 90) laying girls, 1(now6)+ roosters and 2(+4) turkeys and wanting to expand next year!!(chickens that is)(Well already expanded lol) oh yeah and wife to one heck of a guy!!

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Mother of 2 boys, 8 horses, 4 dogs, 3 cats, 36 (now 90) laying girls, 1(now6)+ roosters and 2(+4) turkeys and wanting to expand next year!!(chickens that is)(Well already expanded lol) oh yeah and wife to one heck of a guy!!

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