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Good choice, Y'all were well deserving of it..
Rob you should add the whole incubator page to your front page of BYC..edit!..oops i see you have done so already..coooollllllll
Charlie
Just a few concerns about the hot water heater thermostats, those two screws on them are live or should i say hot..were the power comes into the thermostat its self,,if you touch the two screws with wet hands i think somebody is gonna get a bad shock or electrocuted is that possible..??
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Hi Kevin and thanks, wish i would have taken some pic's of the behind the scenes, however i built it like that right on the shelf so i could remove it if i had to all in one shot, the only thing standing in the way of pulling it out is the double wafer thermos. Its pretty basic wiring...
bandm thanks, you could build one out of plywood very cheaply(use recycled wood)..The gqf parts where alot cheaper than buying a sportsman unit its self.. $75.00 vs $400.00 and up,, big savings...
I mainly built it just to try my hand at it and wanted somthing to hatch emu/OS eggs in..Got a...
Ok here's my page
You can remove the other posts if you like
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=478-wilds-homemade-bator
Thanks
Charlie
Yup i will make a page and move it into there, yes the trays do have shelf liners in them, it works wonders..
Yes enter your bators..size doesn't matter, if it gets the job done thats what counts..
I had thought about hatching some emu and or ostrich eggs and thats why i built this some time...
OK here's mine, however it does not have a turner. We use it only for the final hatch times, day 18 and on depending on species being hatched.
It basically has the sportsman's guts being used, got the heating element and two wafer thermostats with switches from gqf and the fan is a large...