Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

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I am so mad at our local walmart super center! well its 45 minutes away but they reduced their containers section! I will have to purchase my brooder tubs online now! they used to have a full isle of that stuff in all shapes and sizes, not any more
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can't you order online to have shipped to your local store for pickup?
 
I picked up a cheap one at walmart and will set up when I get home and dry out the bator. What I'll do is put them on top of the heating pad(that heats my box bator) and drain it and wipe it dry. I'll then very slowly add water if I need to (only if the humidity drops below 20%. I will try to remember to update here but I will deff be updating my thread. And I am monitering cell size. I'm gonna trace them when I get home. Well as best as I can...


I am new to incubating (as in my first batch of eggs is in the incubator now) but I am having to add a little water to keep mine around 20% in the morning when I check it is usually below 10% anyway I'm taking tons of notes so I can learn from my mistakes.

Tomorrow is day 14 for me so I'm really excited to note air cells! Hopefully all my little eggs are on track!
 
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Say Hello to half of my weekend! Hubs and I have had a very busy weekend, more time fine tuning our new incubator so it has perfection in temps top to bottom, but our brainstorm has turned out amazing!

Gigantic Cabinet COOLER INCUBATOR w/semi auto turning
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I took images all the way through this project even the fine tuning to get no variance top to bottom so I will create a Thread with how we did everything later on when I get all the stuff organized.


150 qt Coleman Xtreme insulated Cooler as big as I could find, $67. free shipping I think its just about 4' long
Dual Fan $17.00 for set of Four(used two), use old power inverter thingers I had, Two 90 Watt Lights in ceramics $1.97 each, single Wafer Thermostat $22., rear Air duct.cost of styrofoam? I had it leftover, foil tape $3.00 have half left over. Three of those egg trays you suggested out of the six in the lot $21. for lot of 6, 3 rods for the trays $1.95 each., Handle $1.97, plexi $1.98 x 2, shelf we had left over from our reno, and a pc of thin cabinet back for the lower shelf, and a tad of caulk and gasket sealant we had on hand. clevis pins were $1.25 ea. x3 and flat pc alum for turning was a buck or two. and one 2x3 lumber $2.97


est $132.00 cost



https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/861788/gigantic-cabinet-cooler-incubator-how-we-did-it-and-test-run-ready-set-go


I figured everyone may want to see if it works or not.... started a thread
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@HatchCraft our final brainstorm I appreciate the help and info you gave! Thank you!
 
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[COLOR=333333]Say Hello to half of my weekend! [COLOR=000000]Hubs and I have had a very busy weekend, more time fine tuning our new incubator so it has perfection in temps top to bottom, but our brainstorm has turned out amazing![/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Gigantic Cabinet COOLER INCUBATOR w/semi auto turning ;) [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]I took images all the way through this project even the fine tuning to get no variance top to bottom so I will create a Thread with how we did everything later on when I get all the stuff organized.[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]150 qt Coleman Xtreme insulated Cooler as big as I could find, $67. free shipping I think its just about 4' long[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Dual Fan $17.00 for set of Four(used two), use old power inverter thingers I had, Two 90 Watt Lights in ceramics $1.97 each, single Wafer Thermostat $22., rear Air duct.cost of styrofoam? I had it leftover, foil tape $3.00 have half left over. Three of those egg trays you suggested out of the six in the lot $21. for lot of 6, 3 rods for the trays $1.95 each., Handle $1.97, plexi $1.98 x 2, shelf we had left over from our reno, and a pc of thin cabinet back for the lower shelf, and a tad of caulk and gasket sealant we had on hand. clevis pins were $1.25 ea. x3 and flat pc alum for turning was a buck or two. and one 2x3 lumber $2.97[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]est $132.00 cost[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333][COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333][COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333][COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR][/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Here is hubs showing off his handywork of my GENIUS! HOWEVER I did get yelled at because I put the "darn thermometer" in his way for when he took the tray out! [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Has some tweaking needs done, but Its awesome!! [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]Check out this vid of my fine tuning temps so top to bottom are identical, MIND you I messed with a taped piece of cardboard in the bottom and re-sized the return duct opening numerous times and the depth of the bottom shelf to get the temps the same. It wasn't an easy feat and my bum hurts from sitting in the kids little chair watching the thing and making minor adjustments! HA HA HA [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]This vid is before I added the permanent backer board shelf at the bottom as I was adjusting for perfection. I could technically include a hatcher in the bottom or another egg rack, but I dont want to hatch in it, but it has plenty room for additions stuff, also if you note the cut outs in the side of the cooler, you can easily take out the racks and turn this quickly into a multi level hatcher, we may do another for a hatcher and find plastic tubs to fit in the slits. [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333] [/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]@HatchCraft our final brainstorm I appreciate the help and info you gave! Thank you! [/COLOR]
OMG this is nice Sally.
 
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