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Wonder if anyone had tried gluing a mic to the inside bottom of a small plastic cup then placing an 18 day incubated egg atop and recording to play back?

Started with a plastic storage box, divided and insulated, lamp heater on one side and adjustable speed computer fan, two openings in the divider air-in and air-out with the lamp and electronics behind the divider, relatively precise temperature control with homebrew circuit and a triac module...

What I need is individually sealed double ended swabs that when unsealed and both ends used to take surface residue from eggs, would tell in a reasonable time if the egg is fertile and the sex. Put 6 eggs along a 12 egg carton, put tested swabs in open slot across from egg, return in some hours...

I built an incubator with a 6 egg shifter. The shifter is a ½ doz egg carton on a platform that goes from 40° off horizontal on one side to the same angle on the other. It's timed to shift at 2½ hours and, for later in the hatch, 5 hour intervals. I rotate the eggs 90° by hand daily always...

My first coop is currently a work in progress. I've read that winter lighting turn-off, if a simple on/off can upset the chickens like kids not wanting to go to bed. So I was thinking of LED lighting. There are battery powered 10 LED 12vdc car lamps for $5 on Ebay. The light from these will...