I just made my first Homemade Incubator. Check Her Out!

[perolane]

Great idea & good luck!!

If there are eggs in that egg carton, you'll need to cut that lid off & also cut out the bottoms of each little egg cup.....for air flow around the eggs.

 

[dwdoc]

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I also made a homemade incubator (see my page: bucs-bator build). I manually turn my eggs by sliding a brick under one side until I get the angle I want, during the next turn simply put the brick under the opposite side. This action in effect mimicks an autoturner. If you really wanted to be creative you could rotate the brick around all four sides but it is not neccessary. This also makes turning a one step process, no need to open the bater and turn individual eggs; all eggs are turned at once.

If you do look at my bater on "my page" you will be looking at an older version. Before I set a new batch of eggs this weekend I made some major modifications. If you are interested in some of the things I learned let me know so I don't hijack your post.

Quick question, I noticed that you do not have any heat sinks in your bator... Are you have trouble keeping your temp regulated?

Good luck with your hatch.

 

[marathonmultiplesmom]

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No eggs yet! I am going to fill up my other incubators while I fine tune this one and make sure it holds.

 

[Mystic Farms]

neat ideas - isn't recycling great lol!

I'll be watching this thread to see how your hatch goes.

 

[marathonmultiplesmom]

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I also made a homemade incubator (see my page: bucs-bator build). I manually turn my eggs by sliding a brick under one side until I get the angle I want, during the next turn simply put the brick under the opposite side. This action in effect mimicks an autoturner. If you really wanted to be creative you could rotate the brick around all four sides but it is not neccessary. This also makes turning a one step process, no need to open the bater and turn individual eggs; all eggs are turned at once.

If you do look at my bater on "my page" you will be looking at an older version. Before I set a new batch of eggs this weekend I made some major modifications. If you are interested in some of the things I learned let me know so I don't hijack your post.

Quick question, I noticed that you do not have any heat sinks in your bator... Are you have trouble keeping your temp regulated?

Good luck with your hatch.

Ok, how do I go about adding heat sinks? Can you link me with the thread you got help on? (or take pity on a nooby who made her first incubator and explain)

My incubator is holding betweeb 97-99 fairly steady so I will try some adjustments with the thermostat mentioned earlier. I am not in a hurry to set eggs. I really want the incubator to be correct first.
I have 4 other incubators I will use until this one is running steady, with several days to observe it. Better to wait now and get chicks later than to be impatient and get problems later.

 

[Pascal PicklePants]

I would second the suggestion for heat sinks. bottles filled with water work great, as do ziploc bags filled with sand. Anything that adds mass inside the bator. This reduces the effect of temp fluctuations.

 

[kmsek]

love the bator I punched a hole on side of mine attached a 12 egg carton to a broom handle and rotated handle back in forth would post pick but i pulled it out for lock down last nite

 

[marathonmultiplesmom]

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excellent. Will do that. I once did baby food jars full of water. I just didn't realize that was a heat sink

 

[Pascal PicklePants]

I have a viewing window on the lid of my home-made too. I found I lost a good bit of heat through it. My solution was to simply lay a folded up towel on top of the viewing window and obviously just move it when I want to take a peek. Just to add back the insulation I sacrificed for the window.

 

[triplejfarms]

right on! good luck!