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    New (OLD) Cabinet Incubator

    Maybe double check that your thermostat doesn't have any cobwebs or anything in it. Doesn't seem like it should be swinging like that.
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    Food Scraps?

    I went and talked to the poultry feed specialist from Fertrell at a conference last month. I wanted to ask his opinion of the fact that this winter we gave our hens a deer carcass to clean off. He said that it would actually be good to save some extra carcasses so they could have them all...
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    New (OLD) Cabinet Incubator

    I actually found a digital hygrometer at the reptile section of Petsmart. It takes some pretty fine tuning to get them to the right temp I think, but they seem to hold nicely once they're there. I imagine the thermal mass of the eggs would help regulate it too if you were filling the...
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    New (OLD) Cabinet Incubator

    Just sent it. Going out to fill mine up with turkey eggs and some assorted layer eggs. And by full, I mean not even a large percentage of the 640 chicken eggs it will hold!
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    New (OLD) Cabinet Incubator

    Also, you'll want to fit dowels or something through the holes on the trays. These will keep your eggs from rolling all the way from one end to the other when you turn them.
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    New (OLD) Cabinet Incubator

    Mine has a lightbulb between the switches that shows when the heater is running. Shuts off when the thermostat trips off. Should be some sort of screw turny thing in that top hole to adjust the thermostat. I'll see if I can take some pics of mine tonight to post. Very similar.
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    New (OLD) Cabinet Incubator

    Sounds an awful lot like the Brower 624 (built by Leahy) incubator that I have. Works beautifully. On mine there is sort of a little screw that sticks out between the two switches, turning that screw/knob changes the temps. The second switch is to control the lightbulb that should be screwed...
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    Brower 624?

    My understanding is that the Brower was indeed built by Leahy. Everything I know about this thing is from Googling pictures of other people's incubators. The label on mine is all worn off and I couldn't find a plate on it anywhere. Thanks!
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    Brower 624?

    So my dear soon-to-be father in law brought me home a present from a farm he delivered some equipment to yesterday. I pulled in this morning to see a redwood incubator in the back of his truck. From my Googling it appears to be a Brower 624 in fairly good working order. It could use a scrub...
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