Homemade Incubators

[quintinp]

This is a little diagram I drew up. It may be really helpful to someone out there.

 

[Neverenuff]

Here is a short Video of mine... I have hatched out many ducks in it so far.. I ended up scrapping my LG because this one is way more reliable... It is a foam cooler that worms come in I picked it up free at walmart, it has many ball jars in for heat sinks... the jars fit perfectly in the spaces where the worm containers were. I wired a light and fan with the smallest wattage bulb I could find. The light is plugged into a reptile heat regulator.. I usually put shelf liner on the wire for hatch.. I had to retro fit the LG turner to fit all I did was hack saw off the last row of egg holders and it fits perfectly.. I have 24 silkie eggs coming in the mail any day so we will see how it does on chicken eggs!

Happy Hatching

Jamie

 

[rittert3]

I like your turner rig in the cooler quintinp and thanks for the diagram

 

[DMRippy]

Here is mine.... and the hatcher. Both are working great but I will be making a new one soon with some changes. It is kinda hard to get to the eggs on the bottom shelf and adding water is a pain but other than that it works great!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=92428-homemade-incubatoregg-turner

 

[al6517]

Here is the one I built a few years ago, I have added 3 more turners since so it has 4 turner in it now. I have a top tray slide out hatcher, that fit's 150 eggs, I have since changed to a dbl wafer back-up thermostat system, it has a built in egg candler on top. I have it going almost nonestop for 3 years and it does work very nicely.

AL

 

[DMRippy]

Quote:
He is the guy I kinda copied!

 

[al6517]

Quote:
He is the guy I kinda copied!

I had no Idea when I originaly designed it I had no idea it would work so well, it was cheap to build not all that hard and fun. I won the bator contest with it back when I first made it.
How well does yours work??

 

[DMRippy]

Quote:
He is the guy I kinda copied!

I had no Idea when I originaly designed it I had no idea it would work so well, it was cheap to build not all that hard and fun. I won the bator contest with it back when I first made it.
How well does yours work??

Congrats! I used what I had and it did not cost much. It has worked very well! I have a couple of my first hatch results on my page. I have 28 Marans eggs in there now and 18+ more to set Monday. It is having a harder time keeping temps now that the outside temps are dropping it is in our shop/barn with no extra heat yet. I just raised the temp some and put a comforter over it.

 

[al6517]

I have a staggered hatch going in mine right now, and I noticed 3 pip's just a few minutes ago, and 20 more that are due in 7 day's. LOL yes I hatch in the winter.

 

[mochicken]

I'm hatching now too lol this is my first year so I'm a bit addicted to hatching lol