Help with my homemade incubator please!

[quintinp]

OKay I have always been on the defensive side when people put down the water heater thermostats, IN MY OPINION, the water heater thermostat is good for incubators the size of a cooler, or smaller, BUT I have decided that the wafer thermostats should be used for the fridge and cabinet incubators, I HOPE that this hatch of quail eggs does go well, but after I am done with this batch of eggs in my fridge incubator, I am switching to a wafer thermostat, for the Fridge-bator. But like I said I think it is a waste of money to buy a 25 dollar wafer thermostat for a cooler incubator, but with the cabinet incubators it is necessary.

Good Luck.

 

[Floridachicken1958]

new chicks hatching http://tinyurl.com/6zy9lz8

 

[Jloeffler]

Quintinp- I checked out the pics of your homemade gators. Love the coolerbator. Do you prefer the dry method? I didn't see a water pan in ur fridgebator either. Also curious about where u put ur t-stat. Why so close to the lightbulb instead of closer to where the eggs would be? Thanks for answering my questions! You should add chicken guru to your tag!

 

[rebel yell]

BY putting the thermostat close to the light bulb will make it cycle faster, here is where I have mine mounted. it is under the lid of the bator, its not any bigger than a cooler but i still use a wafer no matter what.

 

[Floridachicken1958]

I love them wafer thermostats

 

[quintinp]

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The dry-hatch method is what I prefer. I have cups of water in the fridge-bator. And i think someone has already answered that last question.

 

[Jloeffler]

Thanks for teaching the newbie!

I managed to get the temp to hold steady for 24 hours so I went ahead and put two eggs in for a test run. If this doesn't work I'm going to cooler with T-stat set up! I think, based on what ya'll have said that would just make my life a whole lot easier! I've been out checking temps every couple of hours. I have an out of town conference for the next two days and left DH and DD in charge of maintainence and egg turning. I left post-it notes all over with directions for egg care and chicken care! I am such a dork!! I need a smilie with its fingers crossed!

This comes close!

 

[Floridachicken1958]

If you can keep the temp & humidty correct you really shouldn't have a problem.But don't be like me on my 1st go and forget about turning for 1 whole day. But luckily they all hatch for me.But you will do just fine.

 

[Jloeffler]

Thanks for the warm fuzzies!

 

[Floridachicken1958]

Hawks just got 2 of my chickens and I couldn't get close enough to scare him into dropping the chickens. Free range just turned into free food for hawks.

They was supposed to pay for them before leaving with them.