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[aprilschicks]

9 more days for me and counting i cant wait

 

[CrzyCknLady]

9 more days for me and counting i cant wait

I'm due the same day as you! I can't wait either!

 

[ceocka]

I'm currently using a homemade cooler incubator and although I'm only on day 12, things appear to be going well.  All in all, I spent $10 to make this and that was for the light and the bulbs.  Everything else was stuff I had laying around the house.  It took all of 15 minutes to make.........I don't count the cost of the thermometers/hygrometers in the cost of building it because I can use them for lots of other things.

 
I got the styrofoam cooler from a doctors office I clean - they received medicine in them and I kept bringing them home much to my husband's chagrin - but I finally found a use for them!  I'm actually going to go out and buy another light today so I can build a second one.  Everything else I used is just stuff I had laying around the house.    I do have to keep a towel around the cooler because it is so cold in my office - but it's no big deal. 


When I build the other one this afternoon, would you like me to take pictures of the process for you? 

I would love to see pictures too!

 

[Caitlin_VT]

Tomorrow is day 7 for the BCM eggs I am hatching! I have one little mixed bantam egg on day 7 too, so I can get some idea of development

 

[MommaSampson]

Here's all 8 of my babies!! I was so happy all the eggs that went into lockdown hatched.

 

[Caitlin_VT]

Here's all 8 of my babies!! I was so happy all the eggs that went into lockdown hatched.

Congrats!

 

[CamiLynn]

My 6 incubated babies and 1 I rescued from under my broody...so 7 babies inside

Then just a couple cute pics of my broody with her 5 babies that hatched this weekend also.

 

[PugBug]

Congratulations to everyone w/ new babies

Hello to all the new ppl

My 2 Isbars babies died- 1 seemed weak, never held it head up & died hours after hatch. The other was perfectly fine, or so it seemed. She was dead when I woke up this morning.
I have eng. choc. orp. bantam eggs going to lockdown Tues I think.
Got my frizzle eggs in, the lady sent lots of extras.

 

[CamiLynn]

[COLOR=B22222]Congratulations to everyone w/ new babies [/COLOR]
[COLOR=B22222]Hello to all the new ppl  [/COLOR]

[COLOR=B22222]My 2 Isbars babies died- 1 seemed weak, never held it head up & died hours after hatch. The other was perfectly fine, or so it seemed. She was dead when I woke up this morning.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=B22222]I have eng. choc. orp. bantam eggs going to lockdown Tues I think.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=B22222]Got my frizzle eggs in, the lady sent lots of extras.[/COLOR]

Aww...so sorry pug!! Hopefully things go better with this up coming hatch and how exciting about the frizzles!!! So sorry you lost the two.

 

[CrzyCknLady]

Here is the incubator I made in about 15 minutes. I'm on day 12 with 23 fabulous looking eggs resting easy in this. Temp is a little iffy because we heat with wood and the temperature fluctuates in the house. The room I keep the bator in is my office and it is notoriously the coldest room int the house - usually runs in the low 60's in there. I keep a towel wrapped around it a lot of the time, especially at night.....but it works so I can't complain.


Here are my supplies - I am comfortable with electrical work but I was just being lazy and bought a $6 light from Lowe's (with the extension cords). I used glass from a picture frame I had packed away, a cookie cooling rack, a free cooler, duct tape and 25W bulbs.


I took the light apart. I didn't need the shield or the clamp - just the socket and cord. I traced the circle on the side of my cooler and stuck the plug from the inside of the cooler out so it was nice and snug.


On the lid, I traced around the outside of my piece of glass. Then I moved it in about 1/2" and traced two sides, then moved it and did the same for the other two sides. It was pretty much freehand - just enough of a lip for the glass to sit on.


I cut out the inside lines with a serrated knife - easy peasy.


I set the glass on top and then just used my pretty tape to hold it in place.




I put my rack in teh bottom - and this thing holds humidity like crazy so I've removed the sponge for now and just have a small tube that is holding the water - and it's keeping my humidity about 35% (I don't have a fan in this one so I want the humidity to be a little lower for now and when it's time to up the humidity, I won't have a problem getting it up there).








This is where we are at right now.....a lot more eggs than I started with.