GopherBoy Builds an incubator

[Buckaroo]

what is the thing in the egg tray? Is that the wiggle toy, what is its purpose??? Plz Explain, never seen this before.

 

[GopherBoyFarms]

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we went ALL OVER town looking for the water wiggler (funny my kid had about 5 of them till i needed one)
we couldnt find one so what we are using is almost the same thing.

The perpose is to insert the probe into it on to be able to see the temp and the humidity on the inside of the eggs.
(hope that makes sense?)

~Tiff~

 

[GopherBoyFarms]

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thanks so much, I totally understand! and I will have lance read when he gets home

He's the builder, I'm the typer and the one that takes the pics.
If this hatch doesnt work out we will add the junction box I am sure!

~Tiff~

 

[shelleyd2008]

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You can order some from Amazon.com. I couldn't find any in the stores here.

 

[silkiechicken]

Looks great! Only word of advice, is if that pan is one of those cheap aluminum baking pans that come in packs of three, if you let left over hatch junk fall onto it, the salts found in the baby chick poo will eat though the aluminum and it will leak after just one hatch. So if you haven't planned for a hatching tray to keep stuff off the pan, I'd start. I learned the hard way and set my bator up for a second hatch, and because the front door comes off entirely, the table it was sitting on was soaked as all the water in the tray ended up outside. Shining a light though the pan, there were tiny pin sized holes where chick poo or hatching left overs landed stained and had eaten though...

 

[shelleyd2008]

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The temp for chicken eggs should be 99.5, but fluctuations of 97-102 degrees are ok, as long as they don't stay at either extreme for long. Too high=early hatch too low=late hatch
Humidity should be about 50% I believe for the first 18 days, then up to at least 65% for the last 3. Might need to double check the humidity part.

 

[johnmayersquare]

Very cool! I'll be watching the posts to see how it goes! Good Luck!

 

[bluey]

Truly amazing work!

 

[GopherBoyFarms]

thanks everyone.
We are holding at a great temp and humidity in the air its 100.2 humidity 50% and the wiggler is 98.7 wit hhumidity 40%
(I'm hoping thats good...its been holding there all evening..........) every MILLION times I check on it!

OH NO, I am hooked, if this works out I will probably fill that entire spare room with bators!

Silkiechicken: thanks for the heads up on the pan issue.....it's doubled, but I think we will slide something different in there next go around.

~Tiff~

 

[erthymom2]

thank you for posting and taking the time to share with us - very nice construction and the instructions plus pics as you went step-by-step really do the job for folks like me who needs pics to learn new things!!
good luck with the hatching.