Anyone else had this thought?

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Okay, so here I am, sitting in my living room thinking about how I would love to create a room specifically for incubating and brooding, where temperature and humidity would stay constant..... I started thinking, "what is an incubator anyways? Basically it is a compact steam sauna, right?!" My brain has devised this:

Build a steam sauna capable of keeping a constant temperature that has an adjustable humidity control knob outside the sauna. Find or buy some bread racks, like what the bakeries use to bake large batches of breads, muffins, cakes, etc. Set egg turners on each shelf of each rack, and have them all wired to a GFCI outlet that is controlled by a switch also outside the sauna. With an incubation room, who needs an incubator?

Just wondering if anyone else has given this some thought? or am I the first?
 
Well, that's kinda what hatcheries do..... Great big rooms into which they roll stacks of thousands of eggs in racks. Temperature and humidity controlled.
 
a few of us were considering turning an old airstream into a mobile incubator that way we could move it around and let everyone experience the fun...you could travel picking up eggs and depositing chicks....
 
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Well, I mean, I figured as much... but I mean for more on a home scale... Like, taking a useless closet and transforming it into a incubating sauna... that sort of thing.
 
My snakes have their own room & I have to keep the temp/humidity levels controlled, so I don't see why that wouldn't work for you. Just a tad more intricate than my snake room!
 
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That is too cool! and funny!
 
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Well, I mean, I figured as much... but I mean for more on a home scale... Like, taking a useless closet and transforming it into a incubating sauna... that sort of thing.

I LIKE the way you THINK!!!! lol
 
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Well, I mean, I figured as much... but I mean for more on a home scale... Like, taking a useless closet and transforming it into a incubating sauna... that sort of thing.

I LIKE the way you THINK!!!! lol

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That sounds like a great idea, but how many chicks are you planning on hatching? It could get crazy fast! Not that that's a bad thing, plus, you could sell a lot of chicks-----what kind are you breeding?
 

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