The cheapest brooder and fastest to assemble is a Lowe's large moving box. It's $1.39. If you need more space, add more boxes and cut doorways between them. Put heat in one, water in another and food in another.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ping-humidity-in-our-homemade-incubator/0_100
This is actually pretty cheaply genius but not as a incubator.....
BUT for quick simple clean brooders.....
is this stryo healthy air wise?????
When the chicks outgrow them they can be composted along with the feces or cut open and laid down in a garden bed to suppress weeds and pile more compost on top. The worms will eat the boxes.
Brilliant. I'll have to remember that.
I was 570 behind so I just skimmed. Like every third page.@HeatherMarieR , how are your Muscovy eggs doing? Sorry if you already posted, haven't had a chance to read 500 posts yet.
-Kathy
Quote:I've got all the tin I need, just nothing to fasten it down with. Gotta go by TSC also to pick up a roll of wire...
Oh... and I don't use nails anymore. I might use a few nails to hold something in place temporarily, but everything I build is screwed together. I've seen nails back out, but I've yet to see a screw unwind...
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I rarely use nails any more either - unless I'm using a nail gun. Screws usually create a neater finished product.Ditto. But I mainly use screws more because they can be reused and are easier to get out once they are in.
Nails definitely have their place though. Screws can break and good nails don't. A buddy that is a roofer taught me that if your life depends on it, use nails. For instance if you're securing yourself to a steep high roof hanging from a harness and lanyard - don't trust a screw. I've had to do that a lot and I'm glad I used nails.
Humans have been making nails for 5,000 years, screws - only about 300. That could be the difference.
Mine looks like that sometimes. My incubators are in the cellar (originally because the temps are stable) but it is always cold so the incubators need to work harder. I have to come up with another plan. I might be able to put the LG up here, though I don't want to ever use it again. The cabinet is way too big and the wife wouldn't go for it.Hi Sally!
Here's my bator of rocks:
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And here's my setup:
So now everyone in your house can see how to keep temps stable in the LG. that giant mess is NOT just for looks. It's very important in keeping the bator insulated and out of drafts.
That's false advertising. I'm sure the purchasers believe Amish hands made it.lol your silly, I should sew again but cant get myself to do it after so many years of sewing commercial lumbar support belts and Amish bonnets for the locals to sell, yea I am not Amish but I made them for all these places close by
You and others are going to hate me for this but I don't help stuck birds any more.
IMHO, if they don't hatch on their own, they weren't meant to hatch.
I'm not in the business of breeding needy birds.
Some of those are close but most are off.
I don't think Adelaide the chicken sitter knows what she's talking about.
Leghorn = leg-horn (NOT le-garn) That depends on what part of the country/world you live in. In MO it is le-gern. I'm not saying that's right it is just how it has always been pronounced around these parts. Webster's says both are correct.
That's like New Orleans, if you're from there, it's N'awlins.
If you're from Norfolk, it's Norfuk.
Australorp = os-tra-LORP According to Webster's aus·tral·orp
Orpington = or-ping-ton (NO 'ph' in this name) Thank you for that.
Rhode Island Red = road-eye-land-red rōd-ˈī-lənd-red
Cochin = co-CHIN (coach-in)
Mille Fleur = meal-flurr
Minorca = min-OR-cah
Andalusian = an-da-loo-see-an Webster an-də-ˈlü-zhən
Sumatra = soo-mah-trah
D'uccle = dew-clay (NOT dee-uncle) Do-u-clay (Uccle a town in Belgium)
Maran = ma-ron (NOT mo-rahn)
Fayoumi = fah-oo-mee
Crevecouer = krev-a-core That's close krev-kœr It's made up of 2 French words which is why the second e isn't pronounced.
Aseel = ah-seel
Barnevelder = barn-eh-fel-der Close again bahr-nuh-velt-er
Araucana = a-roo-carn-ah ar-uh-kah-nuh
Pekin = pee-kin
d'Anvers = dee-ann-ver
Fayoumis = fie-you-me fahy-yoo-mee
Chantelclers = shan-tah-clair chan-tuh-kleer
Ancona = an-cone-ah ang-koh-nuh
Faverolle = fav-er-ol
Brahma = bra-mah
Wyandotte = why-un-doat wahy-uh n-dot
I can add some that are EXTREMELY difficult to pronounce.
Empordanesa = em-por-duh-nay-suh
Penedesenca = peh-neh-deh-sehn-kuh
Euskal Oiloa u-skol o-a-lah
very nice
I heard it was cold too.
Not ducks but I had a lot of malpositioned last hatch that were laying in the LG.
What is the PTFE panel for?
I have an air channel for my separate hatcher that surrounds the incubator. Watching your progress, I'm thinking of installing an air channel down the back of my incubator because it is so tall, I have some thermal stratification even with all the fans.
What are you planning for air intake?
Wonderful to learn from others' mistakes instead of your own.Why? cause I still got all my fingers? only reason is I witnessed a shop teacher slice up his hand in high school on a band saw, learned to always use a push block and kick back guard on all tools real quick!
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I just quit trying to convince mine. She doesn't have the same vision.
So I just buy it, stick it in the workshop and when she asks, I tell her that I've had it for years.
I haven't used a thermometer since the very first chicks I brooded. It just isn't necessary. I replicate nature. I provide a warm spot and lots of cool space, just the way a mother hen does it.
This thread had me thinking of you....
you googled that? remember how you did it?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1076096/prop
Good job.
congratulations
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Anyone ever see how Cackle Hatchery raises their birds?
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