Come hatch along with us!!! Last sets of the year! 10-18 to 11-7

[crissycriss]

----Project Ultra-bator----
Some pics of the test run and project so far



The strip-down. Compressor and coils scrapped.


Top fan installed. Designed to suck air up and over the now removed coils and down the back of the unit. Ill be taking advantage of this now in testing and also in the final configuration.


Lights installed for heat. Testing my wiring.  Cut up reflectors to use as mounts


Power off to the heat.


Splicing of the heat sockets to a single plug, in turn plugging into the control unit.


Compressor fan re-purposed for circulation. Mounted at the bottom blowing upwards. Bent the bracket to fit the corner instead of mounting on a flat surface.


Cover plate for the fan and heating chamber. the pan in the back is the old evap drip tray. I removed the foam and placed the tray back for possible future use.


Foam removed


Wiring pic


Another of the wiring


Temp & Humidity sensor


The unit in operation


Better pic of the temporary heating unit in action.

That is a awesome bator.Love it!!!

OH MY Goodness!!! Such sweetness! and I see we use the same brooder

They are!! I used to use my garden tub,hubby got upset about me taking tub over so i got the pool. I like it so much better easier to keep clean.




Congrats everyone on you hatches!!!

 

[lgrant1]

Had 19 chicks hatched as of today. Hatch day was 11/3. Still have 10 eggs unhatched. How long should I leave them in the bator to see if we have any late hatchers?

 

[LissyB]

Still nothing!

 

[Shades of Blue]

GOOd to have you Shades!!Enjoy

thanks......I spend too many hours at night on this site.....lol. but I am learning lots!

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Nottinghamranch, congrats on the babies!

MCF, that's quite a bator!

I have chick envy! and broodies who are playing musical nest box. NOT a good thing!

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

WOW, That is awesome Marine!!!!

Are you putting a window in the door or did it already have one? How is the temp doing once you have it all turned on? Are you going to install turners or do it manually? Looks like you are nearly ready to go. Oh yeah, is it going to lock?

I will be building the turners before spring. Door was already glass so they saved me time. Holds temp very very well. And yes it locks

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Marine very impressive. Do you have an estimated cost for your 1000 egg incubator?

LissyB. I'm sorry. It is hard when they don't make it. Of course infertile eggs aren't as sad they just never were.


Nottingham beautiful chicks.

Crissy good thoughts!!!


My hatch is over. I lost 5 in shell. One had internally pipped but never externally. Another neither but appeared fully formed. The other 3 look like they quit around day 17 or 18 still had a lot of yolk and stuff not quite there yet. The one I helped but didn't hatch, hatched himself last night and if he'll eat and drink today he should be ok.

Here is a shot of the brooder. The red heat lamp skews the color. But excited as I got 3 blue EE's out of it. A few feather legged mixes. Have more in the bator a few that I have to switch to the hatcher tonight after a good cleaning.

As of right now my cost is a big fat zero Everything I have put into it I have had on hand, and i picked the cooler up off craigslist for free bc it was broken

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

MCF: I love your project!! I am always building things at home (this weekend I made a screen door) but

this is a whole new world with electricity and wires and things.. ....

let us know how the performance specs turn out..

So far so good. Holds temp well. The recovery time isnt real good with just the light bulbs. About 90 seconds a degree recovery time. Id like that to be cut to about 30 seconds

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Ok egg update. Candled every egg as it went in the hatcher. Pulled 3. 2 were no goes 1 was a quitter & blood ringed. So thats a total of 6 pulled from the original set.

 

[LissyB]

Hope you have a successful hatch! That is quite an incubator! Still no duck.

Maybe there will be one soon!