incubator ideas! post your ideas for home made incubators, whether they work or not~

[quintinp]

starting to feel a bit lonely... hello? anyone online?

You could place the heating element on top, and the wafer thermostat would be fine on the side of the incubator. One thing you might want to do, is use the Bi-metal thermostat, as they don't require a new wafer every year, and they work great. Here is a great video about how they work, and how well they work. They are also only 15 dollars, and have free shipping. You could place the fan on the back side of the incubator, and that would work fine.

 

[enjoyin' my chickens]

What size pvc pipe are you all using in these incubators, such as Quntinp's chicken factory cooler-bator, for the egg turners?

 

[SouthDakotan]

starting to feel a bit lonely... hello? anyone online?

No need to feel lonely. But I realize sometimes it feels like there is an "echo" because people don't respond.

But we are here. Some of us are "stuck" being inside, even though we'd love to be outside making gadgets and working on coops! (me for example, due to lungs and pollen counts)

But at least posts like yours and the others regarding building incubators is helping me deal with being "house bond".

Can you tell me more about the photo of the cabinet? What's it look like inside?

I've collected a couple tubs and screening to make myself some brooding tubs for coming chicks and ducklings. Was planning on working on them today, but right now my fingers are the only thing that gets to do any walking without me going unconscience (whimpy lungs

) since birth & right now the "air quality" in reference to pollen is high and I'm struggling to breathe!

DId I mention this sucks!

So please Please keep up the posts! Its my lifeline to sanity

and

conscience "exercise" of at least one part of my body (my brain, at least).

Sincerely Anisah in South Dakota

 

[mayberrygirl]

Anyone else look at furniture and think about how it can be turned int an incubator? I have this beautiful pie safe that one minute I am thinking how to alter it, and the next trying to talk myself out of it. It is a very nice cabinet and pretty expensive.

 

[Cpntherfan]

i have just built my second coolerbator and now have plans to build a cabinet bator

 

[justin24]

five gallon fish tank worked

 

[quintinp]

five gallon fish tank worked

Wanna see some pictures!!!

 

[fried green eggs]

Save the Pie Safe

just go to a resale/reuse store and pick up a cheap - dresser, end table or ? to be your next bator. If you don't want the old pie safe - I'll gladly take it off your hands - lol

 

[justin24]

Wanna see some pictures!!!

Look at the pics on my page

 

[SouthDakotan]

five gallon fish tank worked

I agree with quintinp, it would be awesome to see the pictures here! As for your page, which page are you referring to Justin24?