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I'm going to give up all my secrets, LOL. I'll never get rich from this stuff anyway.

That floor brooder that Terry is using is actually a modified design from one used in the early 1900's. @Lunar...Very difficult to scale down the dimensions because the way it is made is so the chicks have enough room to get away from the light and self regulate their heat. BUT.. There is another design out there for heat tubes that I played around with and modified a bit. If anyone wants to try it, I call them "Snuggle Tubes"

Take a 3 foot length of 3" diameter PVC and get 2 end caps. Take one end cap and drill a hole big enough for the plug of a strand of Christmas lights to fit through or if you are handy then cut the plug off and drill a small hole for the wire to thread through and then re-wire the plug back. Shove a strand of "Regular bulb" "Not LED" christmas lights in the tube and cap it off. Depending on the length of the strand you shoved in there and the size of the bulbs...you can get that thing someplace between 80 and 95 degrees. Completely safe and the chicks love it. Just lay it on the floor of the brooder and run the cord so they cant mess with it. You will find them all snuggled up against it and asleep in minutes. Now you can greatly reduce the amount of heat you need above them and probably eliminate the light by the time they are 3 weeks depending on how cold it is outside. If you brood them inside during the winter, then you should be able to eliminate the light after a week and just use the snuggle tube.

If you know the basics of 2 and 3 wire 110 volt electricity, there are tons of options out there for you to think about. Rheostats, thermocube's, thermostats, etc.
 
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Which reminds me.....

If anyone runs across an old dorm style fridge or a very small regular fridge that does not work and is free to very cheap, let me know. I'll make a big cabinet brooder out of it with digital proportional thermostats and heat wire instead of bulbs. I'll either buy it from you or hatch for you for your trouble of finding it.
 
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bairo said:
Let us know when they get there..I hope this am so you can put them in late tonight? You let yours settle 12 hours? Some do 24 but I think 12 is enough.
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Well, since they're coming from CA I was going to do the 24 hours, but we'll see how they look when I get them (which will be somewhere around 9-10 tonight) I think mailman runs around 1-3 pm and the neighbor is suppose to keep an eye out for him because he's lazy and no telling where he'll sit my eggs, I'm guessing since I won't be here he MIGHT actually walk them to the porch instead of leaving them on my vehicle hood like all my other packages.
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Unfortunately, my neighbor (and apparently several other people) have called to complain about him, and she said he's been there so long he's untouchable (which is BS!). I may do 12 hours only because some of the eggs may be approaching 10 days old.
 
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AJ and Stacy....

Did you use one of the Chinese suppliers for the nipples? Terry showed me hers and they seem exactly like the ones I get from the American manufacturer.
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I have not gotten any of them "YET".

I was just having fun with Stacy.

I have been looking at them though, been trying to find an inexpensive way to keep the water in them from freezing.
 
bairo said:
Which reminds me.....

If anyone runs across an old dorm style fridge or a very small regular fridge that does not work and is free to very cheap, let me know. I'll make a big cabinet brooder out of it with digital proportional thermostats and heat wire instead of bulbs. I'll either buy it from you or hatch for you for your trouble of finding it.
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Dad has one that lost all the freon. Best I can remember it is about 18 inch each direction.

He said you could have it if you showed at Newport to get it,
BUT if you did not show he was going to send you a bill for hauling it around.
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ETA: Are you making a brooder or an incubator?
 
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Quote: Make the larger one out of 5 gallon bucket. Only put 2 gallons of water in. Hang a heat lamp so it is just even with the top of the bucket and plug it into a thermocube. Mine never hit it hard enough to make a splash that would come close to reaching the lamp. As long as the lamp is secure enough to not fall into the water, lol

If you want more security, put in a GFCI in place of the regular plug. The most that will happen is it will trip the GFCI if it ever fell in or got wet. I have a 5 gallon one with 4 nipples in it that I use to use on the outside in the summer before I moved to the 2 gallon buckets. I'll bring it to the show if you want it....$10.00
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