incubators

  1. Homemade Incubator 3

    Homemade Incubator 3

    For my 4-H Project, I'm building an incubator. It is called the "Sunny-Side-Up Incubator. It holds one standard chicken egg, and maybe 2 small bantam eggs. It is painted yellow (Sunny colored!) and did not cost much to make. Supplie's: Plexiglass 1/4" thick plywood Yellow paint Sharpie pen...
  2. Incubation Cheat Sheet

    Incubation Cheat Sheet

    ChooksChick's Henthusiasts' Still-Air Styrofoam Incubation Cheat-Sheet ***The first, most important rule is: get the temp right with an empty incubator, and make sure it's stable for 48 hours- without the plugs, without you touching it- BEFORE you add eggs.*** This is the hardest part, and if...
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  3. Doug The Chicken Mans Chicken Incubator

    Doug The Chicken Mans Chicken Incubator

    My Incubator Page Ecco Friendly Incubator 1.1 Ecco Bator 1.2 Ecco bator 1.3 Incubator 2.0 The Chickie Maker Because Ecco Frinely Incubator 1.x wasn't broody when I needed it. Items required: 1 - Cooler 1 - Computer Fan 1 - Lamp base...
  4. Bucs Bator Build

    Bucs Bator Build

    WELCOME MY INCUBATOR PAGE When I set out to have a backyard flock I wanted to do it a cheaply as possible. This meant using recycled materials for the coop where I could. I used the same concept when building an incubator. So, I started by doing a ton of reading here on BYC and other sites on...
  5. Wood2876s Chicken Incubator

    Wood2876s Chicken Incubator

    I decided for a weekend project, I would build an incubator. I went to Lowe’s, TSC, and Petco to get supplies. I spent about $200.00 total. The Zilla Thermostat I purchased at Petco was $49.95. Lowes: 1. (6) 2’ x 2’ x ¼” plywood 2. (6) 1” x 2” x 8’ boards 3. (2) 8” x 10”...
  6. Freezer Incubator

    Freezer Incubator

    Last update: March-28-2011 Hello, Here is my freezer incubator project. I am building an incubator of an old freezer and for this cause I used the Liebherr Economy. In this incubator is room for 88 eggs max., but a better aircirculation will be achieved by taking a maximum of 66 eggs. For me...
  7. Bigdaddy101s Chicken Incubator

    Bigdaddy101s Chicken Incubator

    "Picoty Palace" Buit my first 'bator', it held temp within 1' and is holding humidity. The box is built out of one sheet of plywood. It is 2'X2'X3'. Next I used 1" thick rigid foam insulation. I sealed the corner's wich "true" duct tape. This is the metal tape that HVAC installers use. I also...
  8. 7 11 Hatch A Bator

    7 11 Hatch A Bator

    7-11 Hatch-A-Bator I decided to make another incubator to use as a hatcher. This way I will be able to add eggs to my other bator with the turner and keep a steady batch going. That's the plan anyway. I used some of the same material I built my coop with. It's ulgy but should do the trick. I...
  9. Incubator March 2010

    Incubator March 2010

    Six White Silkie Eggs Set March 15th, 2010. This is an incubator we threw together very quickly. A local pet store gave us the cooler from a recent shipment of live fish. Heat Regulation - The hot water heater is the cheap one from HD mounted ~2" above a 60W bulb in a socket i scrapped out...
  10. My Homemade Incubator

    My Homemade Incubator

    Re: 2010 HomeMade Chicken Incubator Contest - Win $20 Gift Certificate Ok Heres my entry! After hatching small batches of eggs in a homemade incubator that I made from a plastic tote, dimmer switch, and 60w light buld I decided that I needed to have a much larger incubator but didnt really...
  11. Johnhams New Incubator

    Johnhams New Incubator

    My Incubator This was my try at an incubator. I am confined to a wheelchair and had to solicit the help of my next door neighbor, Kenneth, for sawing the plywood and the big stuff. We finally got her done though. We didn't have the metal working tools to make the trays like the GQF and Dickey's...
  12. 4 Hills Cabinet Incubator

    4 Hills Cabinet Incubator

    4 Hills Cabinet Incubator. Hello all. Hope this will help someone like all the great ideas on BYC have helped us. We made a small incubator 5 years ago but I did not know what I was doing. We had a very bad hatch rate so we gave up on it and started using Cochins do the work for us. After many...
  13. Incubator Contest

    Incubator Contest

    Ok. So here is the story behind this incubator. I had a friend bring by a dickey incubator. I wanted to build one. After seeing the bator i wanted to customize it to me so i added a few extras. The first thing that had to go was the 1/2" plywood, so i built mine with 13/16" cabnet grade heart...
  14. Camilles Homade Incubator

    Camilles Homade Incubator

    Camille's Incubator by Camille's Dad We wanted to get the full experience of raising chickens so hatching eggs to perpetuate the flock seemed like a fun project. I wanted to see if I could come up with a working 'bator without spending any money. I was victorious in my pursuit. The hardest...
  15. Downhome's Chicken Incubator

    Downhome's Chicken Incubator

    Ok everyone here's my entry,hope you all like it. Plans is that anything like instructions? um no real plans, just a vision. you could really take any cabinet and do similar the real heart of this is the turner trays and controls. I built the incubation chamber and heat chamber around them. this...
  16. Kullass Chicken Incubator

    Kullass Chicken Incubator

    My Pink Bator This is my first shot at making a incuabator and byc page :) Parts list 1- Sheet 4'x8' of 2" insualation foam (from HD) 1- Bottle of polyurethane glue (elmers ultimate glue) 1- Piece of plexiglass for the window (Mine is 7"x15") 1- 8' extension cord 1- Small tube of silicone...
  17. The Sink A Bator

    The Sink A Bator

    The-Sink-A-Bator I'm really happy with how the sink-a-bator turned out and would not change a thing as of right now. So ya want to build an incubator do ya? It's really not that hard to do. There's a ton of great ideas here on BYC. I didn't have a plan or design in mind as I started this...
  18. Kelseygirl707s Chicken Incubator

    Kelseygirl707s Chicken Incubator

    One Mans Garbage is another Womans Incubator! Ok, here is a Mostly recycled goods Incubator, that is a snap to throw together! I manage a storage facility where we often have things left behind when people move their items out. We take these forgotten items and throw them in 3 of our garage...
  19. Elwood Lightfoots Chicken Incubator

    Elwood Lightfoots Chicken Incubator

    My Homemade Incubator contest page, Introducing, MechaChicken- The Iron Hen, My Homemade Incubator, It's my first attempt to build an incubator and an automatic egg turner so here are the photos showing the progression from start to finish, And an update on the first hatch, I am calling it a...
  20. Geosheetss Chicken Incubator

    Geosheetss Chicken Incubator

    Another Wine Cellar Incubator The vision: To build an almost automatic incubator that was as easy to maintain as it is enjoyable for me & my 4 yo son to watch. I am lazy so I desire as much automation as possible. I could probably go out and buy exactly what I want (maybe even more cost...
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