Building A Hatcher(NOT AN INCUBATOR)

[lazy gardener]

Quote: So, you want a box that will hold humidity and temp. Um... that's an incubator, minus the turner, with a thermostat. So... you can build one. If you dedicate it to hatching, it's a hatcher. If you use it to incubate to day 18 or day 21, then it's an incubator. I think you're getting caught up in semantics.

 

[donrae]

Incubator to me is anything that can hold chicks up to 18 days and hatch them also. A Hatcher is something that holds the eggs from Day 18 for chickens and hatches the eggs.
A lot of breeders have them so tou can set eggs in an incubator at a different time.

That's exactly what I call a hatcher, too.

It's the same as an incubator, really, just used for a different purpose. Building one is going to be the same as building another, it's just a matter of how long the eggs are in it. So, building one of say Rush Lane's incubators would make a perfectly acceptable hatcher, no?