DIY Thread - Let's see your "Inventions".

[cpegram]

Used a metal dog kennel I had lined the walls with cardboard to keep shavings in and heat and keeps the cat entertained. Oh and once the chicks figure out pecking the cardboard makes noise it's never ending lol

 

[Beekissed]

Need an interpreter...at what level are the eggs. Are they UNDER the heating pad?

ETA - on closer inspection, I see them there in the feathers. So we have eggs, feathers, heating pad, then a towel on top?? Bible on top of the heating pad?

All that has changed in the past few hours and now they only have a little more feathers on top of the eggs and the heating pad. All the rest served to bring the nest and eggs up to the right temp and now we are stabilized at 99.5 with just the feathers and the heating pad on the lowest setting.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Be interested to see how it turns out. Does the bedding under it help stabilize the humidity?

 

[aart]

"Built" my DIY incubator today...took me a little bit to construct a feather pillow from feathers donated by free roosters I killed this winter, then the rest was put together in about 5 min. and is currently holding steady temps at 99.9 degrees. It will take 21 days to see if it will work.

Materials: Dirt, leaves and other bedding from the coop, snow, a trash bag, cardboard box, meat thermometer, handful of hay, scraps of material, feathers, heating pad with variable settings and an old Bible(for weight).

Ohhh It's an incubator.....I thought it was going to be a brooder heater!

I assume that the thermometer is nestled right amongst the eggs?

You should start a fresh thread to follow this process along...link it here...fascinating!

 

[Pancholoco]

Oooh I cant wait til I see the video of it in action. I am still sitting on the fence of using Fermented Feed Till I can get relocated back home I will be staying with regular feed.

deb

Me too!

Looks nice! So, it will keep shooting out pellets as long as you keep pulling the trigger & have pellets in the hopper? May I assume that with a few minor modifications it would be full automatic?

Working in the recoil spring

 

[aart]

"Built" my DIY incubator today...took me a little bit to construct a feather pillow from feathers donated by free roosters I killed this winter, then the rest was put together in about 5 min. and is currently holding steady temps at 99.9 degrees. It will take 21 days to see if it will work.

Materials: Dirt, leaves and other bedding from the coop, snow, a trash bag, cardboard box, meat thermometer, handful of hay, scraps of material, feathers, heating pad with variable settings and an old Bible(for weight).

 

[Beekissed]

Be interested to see how it turns out. Does the bedding under it help stabilize the humidity?

I don't know! Seems to in a natural nest setting and that's what I'm trying to copy...we'll see in 19 days.

Ohhh It's an incubator.....I thought it was going to be a brooder heater!

I assume that the thermometer is nestled right amongst the eggs?

You should start a fresh thread to follow this process along...link it here...fascinating!

Yes, the thermometer is nestled in between two eggs on the outside row of eggs. The eggs are shuffled and turned twice a day, randomly, allowing the outside row to be on the inside and vice versa, so that they will all grow together at the same rate.

 

[LaurelC]

Holy cow. FINALLY finished reading the thread after a few weeks.

This weekend I'm building one of the 5 gallon bucket feeders with the elbows, and installing a sink drain in a craigslist pond shell, and hopefully fabbing up a self-filling duck waterer.

If I have time, I'll be building a new "roof" for a doghouse I'm getting on CL this weekend.

 

[suttonhollerchk]

4x4ft 18inchwalls insulation board brooder.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

4x4ft 18inchwalls insulation board brooder.

Just a thought, what is in the middle of the insulation board? If it is anything that is fibrous and carcinogenic there might be some danger to the chicks if they eat or breathe it. Just a thought. I'm no expert but I had a cat that sleep on one and ended up dying from it.