Hello All,
I have been bit by the Poultry & Gamefowl bug for many years. Ive been on the old Backyard chickens site, PYA, The-Coop, and many many other forums so some of you may know me, some of you may not. My name is Danny Pritchett. Long story short I was wanting to share my incubation room project with you. Maybe some of you would have a better idea than I would. For 10+ years now we have been raising poultry and gamefowl. Selling chicks, hatching eggs, and adults locally as well as shipping them. I have a Factory Made 12x16 Utility building out in my backyard that has been wired for electricity but has no insulation anywhere. I am thinking of insulating it and turning it into my incubation room. At the current moment I have a 1502 Incubator, 1500 Hatcher, and 1550 Incubator (Electronic Models) as well as a 1202 Wafer Thermostat Sportsmans.
I am wanting this room to be my incubation room and office. I have plenty of space for it. I also store feed, oyster shells, grit, and other things in the building for them. I would like to add a window unit to the building as the temperatures I am sure are a few degrees above the outside temperature. I had a friend that said the sportsmans are so accurate that it wouldnt matter. But if the temperatures rise above 100 in the building wouldnt the inside of the incubator gradually heat up too. Maybe the heating element wouldnt turn on but it couldnt cool it off either. So regardless of what he says I am going to put a window unit in the building. The question is with it being a 12x16 building not sure about height maybe 8 feet tall at most, what BTU of air condition should I use in the building?
Now that were on the discussion one of my incubators has a Auto humidity tank attatched to it, the others I manually fill. I am thinking about getting some T fittings and the other neccessary fittings and make the single bucket supply all of my incubators. I also have a greenhouse sitting beside the building. So I was thinking of running my 3/4pvc pipe over to the building and hooking up a water source in the building just to attatch a float valve system to the bucket to keep it constantly filled. Whats your insights on that?
This is the last question I will ask on this single post, but What temperatures and humidities work best for you with your sportsman incubators and hatchers. I was told to operate the hatcher a degree less in temperature with higher humidity. Yet all of my electronic models are Factory Set on 3. If this was the case wouldnt the Incubators be set to 3 and the Hatcher to 2. With mine set on 3 my temperature is 100.2. If its set on 2 its 99.2. So Any feedback is greatful. Ive gotta go to work in a little bit,
I will be on later. Hope everyones still hatching
I have been bit by the Poultry & Gamefowl bug for many years. Ive been on the old Backyard chickens site, PYA, The-Coop, and many many other forums so some of you may know me, some of you may not. My name is Danny Pritchett. Long story short I was wanting to share my incubation room project with you. Maybe some of you would have a better idea than I would. For 10+ years now we have been raising poultry and gamefowl. Selling chicks, hatching eggs, and adults locally as well as shipping them. I have a Factory Made 12x16 Utility building out in my backyard that has been wired for electricity but has no insulation anywhere. I am thinking of insulating it and turning it into my incubation room. At the current moment I have a 1502 Incubator, 1500 Hatcher, and 1550 Incubator (Electronic Models) as well as a 1202 Wafer Thermostat Sportsmans.
I am wanting this room to be my incubation room and office. I have plenty of space for it. I also store feed, oyster shells, grit, and other things in the building for them. I would like to add a window unit to the building as the temperatures I am sure are a few degrees above the outside temperature. I had a friend that said the sportsmans are so accurate that it wouldnt matter. But if the temperatures rise above 100 in the building wouldnt the inside of the incubator gradually heat up too. Maybe the heating element wouldnt turn on but it couldnt cool it off either. So regardless of what he says I am going to put a window unit in the building. The question is with it being a 12x16 building not sure about height maybe 8 feet tall at most, what BTU of air condition should I use in the building?
Now that were on the discussion one of my incubators has a Auto humidity tank attatched to it, the others I manually fill. I am thinking about getting some T fittings and the other neccessary fittings and make the single bucket supply all of my incubators. I also have a greenhouse sitting beside the building. So I was thinking of running my 3/4pvc pipe over to the building and hooking up a water source in the building just to attatch a float valve system to the bucket to keep it constantly filled. Whats your insights on that?
This is the last question I will ask on this single post, but What temperatures and humidities work best for you with your sportsman incubators and hatchers. I was told to operate the hatcher a degree less in temperature with higher humidity. Yet all of my electronic models are Factory Set on 3. If this was the case wouldnt the Incubators be set to 3 and the Hatcher to 2. With mine set on 3 my temperature is 100.2. If its set on 2 its 99.2. So Any feedback is greatful. Ive gotta go to work in a little bit,
I will be on later. Hope everyones still hatching
