incubators

My 1st Incubation To see the whole making of...start at "my bator" page... So in order to get my temps to stabilize I moved my thermostat and added a heat sink, per the wonderful insight of the BYCers! With the metal back of the thermostat on the wire above the heat source it responds much...

This is my incubator. Homemade from an old GOTT ice chest I found on the side of the road. Believe it or not I BLEACHED this thing like crazy. I have cut out a window with a Dremel tool. If you have never used a dremel tool, this is NOT the time to try it for the first time. I think jig/sabre...

My Homemade Chicken Incubator I decided to make a homemade incubator after reading about different problems that other BYC members had faced with their store bought incubators, and because of the price of them. So, I gathered the supplies that I thought I would need. Most of the supplies I...

Home made cabinet style incubator with digital thermostat and digital auto turn control I Had an idea bouncing around in my head for a while of how I could build a auto turn for a cabinet machine, My wife would tell you that the idea had a heap of room for bouncing in Well the only way to...

Here is my first attempt at creating a Sportsman type Incubator This is the Completed Project I started by making a kitchen type cabinet w/ a shelve in it for a water dish Next I added a few small fans I had laying around and a sportsman heat source but I found out you need allot more...

Dandies Handy Hatching Emporium This non-working commercial refrigerator had a price I could not argue with... FREE! All I had to do was bring the trailer and they even loaded it. This definitely proves that one man's junk is another's treasure. Not pictured is the original glass...

Lolliegee's Page Here's my submission for the Incubator Contest: I started with Bock_Bock's idea for modifying an aquarium. I don't really expect to win, just thought it was kinda cool. I started out by trying to use the original lid and lights for the aquarium. It had two 25 watt bulbs but...

The Jenki-Bator--front view The temperatures are stable with 1 degree range of 99.5. I am having to work hard to raise the humidity for day 18-21. The hole in the front of the eggs was for my attept at an egg turner, it didn't work as expected! Notice the web cam in the upper left. This...

Freezer-Bator Heres the beginning of the freezer-bator, in the top it has 2 computer fans, a heating element out of an old incubator my m.i.l. had. In the back is a thermostat. We added a shelf to hold the fans and to block direct heat on the eggs. All those wires were tucked away, this was...

Steve’s Homemade Incubator We decided to keep chickens recently. City Ordinances duly consulted we were on our way. The initial choices lay between buying day-old chicks, point of lay pullets or hatching eggs. We wanted the kids to have the full experience, so hatching eggs were the first...

Wine cooler incubator (Winner of the 2009 DIY incubator contest) Hi, I'm a complete newbie from England and don't have any chooks at the moment but I'm hoping to put that right very soon. I grew up with backyard chickens many years ago and I suppose the wanting them back again has been...

MATERIALS Cooler Mesh Wire Water Heater Thermostat Plug with 2 or 3 Feet of Wire Light Fixture 40 Watt Light Bulb Caps 2 Half Inch Plastic Clamps Wooden Box Shallow Pan Sponges Thermometer/Hydrometer Water Wiggler Water Bottle Tubing Screws Nuts Sharpie Pen Fertile Hatching Eggs PC Fan Two...

This is our Home Made Bator. We started with the directions from Miss Prissy that we found on BYC. Then we found the turner (many pages later in the same thread) posted by Tori of Sterling Meadows Hatchery. The supplies: Hardware Cloth (wear gloves, it's sharp) Styrofoam Cooler Bottle Lamp...

Lind's Incubator -After looking at all of the great home made incubators on BYC and paying extra charges for small quantities of chicks. I decided I was going to get started and build my own incubator so that I can purchase hatching eggs and hatch my own babies.. 2/15/2009 - I made two...

Silk Creek Alpacas' Homemade Incubator!!! Well, Lilian and I have started building the incubator. We have it mostly done at this point, just don't have it all together. Here are some of the steps we have taken to build the incubator. First off, an incubator is essentially a warm area that...

Birdbrain's Better Bator Okay, I realize that is a bit presumptuous, but it rhymed, so I went with it. After all, having a homemade bator is "better" than having none at all. About a year ago we ordered some beef from a grass-fed beef outfit in Amarillo, TX. When the order came, we were...

AL's Homemade cabinet Incubator My chicken interest have gotten to the point where I thought that I would like to try my hand at Incubating some eggs. My wife said that since it would have to be in the house that it should at least look pretty nice, So I had to figure out how to design a...

View the entire thread on BYC Forums Past experience with an old hovabator over 15 years ago left me not wanting to try and hatch eggs myself. The thermostat was wonky and unreliable. Even replacing it with a new wafer it was a pain to get the temp set and maintained. With things changing and...

GopherBoy Farms Gopher-Bator SUPPLY LIST Cooler Mesh wire Water heater thermostat Plug with about 2-3 ft wire Light fixture 40-watt light bulb PC fan 12 Volt transformer 2-3 feet of PVC pipe 2 pipe couplings 2, ½ inch plastic clamps Wooden Box Shallow pan A couple sponges...