Chic Chick 'Bator *UPDATED*

[MissPrissy]

Many people have made this bator and hatched many chicks

 

[ThreeBoysChicks]

I built mine today. For details, go

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1360100#p1360100

 

[lovemychicns]

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Has any body thought about installing a water wiggler behind the thermostat. Would this act as a heat sink but also give the sensing portion a more accurate reading?

 

[whudson]

I found the water wigglies at a local kids gaming area (you know the type, where you spend $50 on games and that gives you enough tickets for a spider ring and water wiggly)

I didn't see it mentioned anywhere else on where to find them. I may have overlooked it somewhere, but I found them at these two sites:

http://www.onlinesciencemall.com/Shop/Control/Product/fp/vpid/4708537/vpcsid/0/SFV/30852

http://www.officeplayground.com/squeezetoys.html


No experience ordering from either.

 

[TMPoultry]

Me and my Dad made one the other day, everything was easy to do except for the wiring( were electrically impaired) And now the search for the water worm begins checked like 7 stores today and no one had Them! We have the temperature stabilized at about 98.6-101.2 so i think that it will work fine to hatch my Silkie eggs!

 

[MissPrissy]

Good hatching vibes your way, TM! Show us photos of your incubator.

 

[Mrs MIA]

We found the water wigglers at Target and Walmart...

 

[TMPoultry]

We finished our incubator and added an egg turner for them using some PVC pipe a Aluminum dish and two trays with the lids cut off

From the outside

Our Water Wiggler we made

Thermometers/Hydrometers

Overview

We have four thermometers in it to make sure they are all correct and the thermostat is working perfectly and the temp inside the water wiggler has never gone above 100.6 and never below 99.2 so were gonna keep it at that so we don't mess it up, the humidity has stayed at 54% to 36% so i think it is fine

For the eggs turners we poked the PVC through the side and then the other making sure it wasn't to high or to low for the dish to turn back and forth then toke the dish and drilled holes through the center of dish and pipe and did that 4 times then added two caps to each end then we put little Velcro fasteners to the dish and the bottom of egg cartons and stuck together and added the eggs. So now we can turn the eggs from the outside using the knob

We have 24 eggs in there that are supposedly hatching on the 11th through 14 of February

They are 11 silkie 2 bantam 4 bantie 2 rhode island 3 barred rock and 2 ameracanos

P.S. diddnt reset time on camera because it resets anytime i change the batterys so the date was today not 01/01/05

Peace Out BYC

 

[MissPrissy]

You did great!

Make sure to enter the BYC incubator contest! $20 prize up for grabs.

 

[redchicken]

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At first I thought it said hick bator