Homemade Peafowl Hatcher (Pics galore)

This is how I made my compartments to keep each color within it's confines until I can get them zip tied for identification.The top hatching tray is 5 1/2" high so I cut two pieces to match the length of the tray,and 3 pieces for the other direction.

 
You can see two places in the long pieces that I have cut half the row out so another piece will go down between here. It will look like a tic tac toe board when put together. I used zip ties to hold it to the floor piece and also where the pieces meet. It actually is very solid and high enough that the most althletic peas won't be able to get over into the next compartment.
 
Lookin' good FBC!!! Is the plan to have a finer wire mesh on the bottom? Sorry if I'm jumping ahead a little.
 
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Lighting has always been non existant in hatchers or bators amd for what some of them cost it wouldn't be hard to add lites to see whats going on. After looking at several kinds and actualy being able to see how much lite they put out this seems to be the best for the money at $19.95 for a 12' length of LED rope lite

Since my top tray is 3'x2' thats 10 feet total but I will run 2' of it right down the middle above the top hatching compartment tray.
 
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Okay another thing, I DO NOT have a union card for being an electrician. But I do have one to operate heavy equipment tho. So all those 12V DC computer fans I bought need power to make them work and standard house current is 110V AC current. All of us has one of these in our computer. It's the electric converter that is used to change from AC to DC and it cuts down the voltage to 12,and 5 and 3.3 volts depending on which color wire you use.(See my alzhiemers note so I remember)
 
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Worked all day today and made a little progress again but I gotta get this done cause graduation is this coming week and with relatives coming,first peachicks to hatch ect,,in a few more days it will be next week before I get anymore done and I need it before then. This first pic is of my lower tray,or egg tray.I plan to move eggs in here to this tray on about day 22,and move up to the compartment tray on day 24-25 as usually on day 26 here they are out. Here is the finished tray
 
This picture shows both the top compartmentized tray and the lower egg tray installed as they will be when I'm using it. There will be another board over the fronts of both these trays so they pull out like a cabinet drawer. I should have taken carpentry in school instead of shop and welding. Egg tray front was made with two pieces of plywood cause I couldn't find any 3"-4" boards so I had to use scraps,thus the extra drywall screws on the left side.
 
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Next is the fans. I bought a few long pieces of aluminum to use for holding all the fans together. The group of 4 fans will be running in 12 volts,the two fans will be placed in front of the heating element and are going to be running on 5 volts. I mounted all 4 fans so they are blowing straight up towards the trays. The other two are blowing horizontal. This mounting and wiring these 6 fans together took me about 2 hours of time. But they all work and from the air that I feel blowing off the 4 fans it will be a wind tunnel inside once the cabinet is all closed up.
 
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