Little chick floating in shell.(pic heavy)

[hiddenmagnolia]

Hope that this works and will download. Click on egg and it takes you to my photo bucket. it is a short video I did of an egg in my bator.




Here are some pic of the bator that my DH and I built. It took us two weekends because I wanted to stain and put some finish coats on it to seal it against moisture. Then I made the trays and we let it set to cure the finish. I did not want fumes from the finish to mess up the eggs.

Outside of bator

door locks

fan and heater

hatching trays on bottom turning trays on top

egg cartons in incubator rotating trays. I can put in 180 eggs at a time if I had them. That will come in handy when I have more chicken or do staggered hatches.

 

[Harley's girl]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

Now when were you coming to build mine?!

 

[MrsCountryChick]

Just curious... what do your hatching trays rotate with? Are the coils what heat the incubator?

 

[SterlingAcres]

Sweet

Great job!!

I need to refinish my redwood bator.

 

[hiddenmagnolia]

Harley's girl :

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

Now when were you coming to build mine?!

Can't afford the gas to ohio

 

[hiddenmagnolia]

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The trays are on a frame that has a bolt in the middle that attaches it to the wall. When it is time to rotate we just push tray up or down. It only takes a second to do. The coils are what heats the bator. There is a bathroom vent fan behind it to circulate the warm air.

 

[hiddenmagnolia]

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Thanks DH and I had lots of fun building it.

 

[bearz]

Now that is really impressive. I'm going to have to show my DH...he's really handy.

 

[hiddenmagnolia]

The hardest part was making sure that every cut was square so that it would all fit together. We used new material because I wanted it to look nice in my house and did not want to worry about had come in contact with the material. Got a sheet metal store to make some L shaped stripes then I cut them to length and shaped the tray. It was a lot of fun to make.