Ideal Egg Turning????

[frenchblackcopper]

I have a new Brinsea 190 EX Advance coming tomorrow,,it is programmable everything,and the longest amount of time this incubator can be set for egg turning,is 189 or so minutes,,so every 3 hours,is the LEAST you can set this model for,8 times a day.

 

[Lyz]

the way that my turners are set up are manually turning each row of eggs...we have not tried to set it up with an auto turner...maybe in the future

 

[Lonetree]

I may have just what I need for a egg turn motor.

I live in a old farm house. I the floor joist above where the old wood/coal furnace was is the "Automatic Janitor". For those that are unfamiliar with this, it was hooked to thermostat in house to open draft on the furnace. They used a piece of chain to go down to draft. This thing seems to have enough torque to turn dinosaur eggs

 

[busylizzie]

My incubator (just little mini one) automatically turns my eggs hourly - the eggs sit in a little cup/grove which has a roller at the bottom - so the eggs rotate but remain horizontal. Don't know if that is good or bad......but that is what it does......eagerly awaiting first hatch on the 20th August.

 

[Junkmanme]

Lonetree,

YOUR posting got me to thinking......

I have a "vent" (motorized) that I salvaged from some scrap at my "Wrecking Yard" years ago. I had planned to use it in a Greenhouse that I built here at home. As it turned out, although I built the Greenhouse (hoophouse), I did not use the motorized Vent.

Perhaps it would be "perfect" as an "egg-turner". (I think that I could hook it up to the incubator thermostat and then it would move each time that the incubator began to heat.)

It seems to me that would be "sufficient" turning of the eggs.

Tomorrow I may hook it up and see if it might do as I expect it could.

-Junkmanme-

 

[Lonetree]

If eggs have an average diameter of 1.75" they would need to roll 2.75" to roll 180 degrees. I am thinking of setting them on top of 1" diameter rollers that run across tray.