New Incubator

[Festa X11]

After all the trouble we have had with the Brinsea bator I decided to make another one instead.... What do you think? It is holding temp and humidity perfectly

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Thats real nice.... I dont see any vent holes?

 

[Festa X11]

There are 4 one in each corner 1/2 inch wide you can just make them out in the pic, also as we like the hands on method the whole side comes off for when the eggs get turned so plenty of fresh air should get in.

 

[Eagle2026]

VERRRRRRY NICE!

Be care not to underturn your eggs or you will have chicks with crooked feet.

Liken' it though!
Mike

 

[Festa X11]

Yes indeed they get turned 3-5 or even 7 times a day this batch of eggs were placed on saturday, we also have some more in another homemade bator that are due to hatch in 2 days and now we have just got another bator as from today one of our silkies has gone broody for the first time

and to top it off the frizzle silkie cross which we always thought was a roo has laid an egg.

 

[Eagle2026]

Did you mark one side with an X to tell that there staying in place?
Well that's what my grandmother told me to do when I first got my incubator without a turner over 25yrs ago.
I just wantyou to have some good heathy chicks and thought that looking out for the other people was a kind thing to do.
Not tellin' ya' what to do.
Mike

 

[Penturner]

well it definitely has view. How long has it been running and holding a steady temp. I have one Home brew bator with a thick plexi top that is fairly sensitive to temp changes in the room. but if I keep the room steady it is dead on at one tenth of a degree. My second home brew is a Styro box, and nothing phases it I could set it out in the yard in a snow storm. the Styrofoam is 3 inches thick. Your has a much better viewing area though. I like it.

 

[Festa X11]

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Thanks for your thoughts Mike they are appreciated... yep all eggs have 0 and X on them and numbered for our records although this is the first time we would have been using this bator it will be our 6th hatch in total all done manually the only bad hatch we had was with a Brinsea octogon 10 with auto turner cradle and that was zero hatch from 6 fertile and doing will eggs.

Chris

 

[Festa X11]

We had it running steady for 3 days before placing the eggs, there is a difference of half a degree c from the outsides to the middle of it. We are using a 100 watt stainless steel heating element with a 12cm fan blowing up over it, the box is made of 10mm thick cast acrylic sheet and placed on a polystyrene base. The thermostat is on a pcb and designed for this application and has a Hysteresis range of 0.5 c.
Our other bator is also a cooler one but with a thin perspex sheet on the top and is heated by a light bulb it also holds a good temperature but not sure if it would outside lol. The thermostat for this one came as a kit that had to be soldered with some resistors being altered to provide the correct temperature range and also an extra relay to cope with mains voltage for the light.

 

[Penturner]

Nice, I've seen those resistor heater kits. I've been playing around with coming up with my own but no luck so far. I have little projects that I will be working on for years but hope to one day make all this incubation type stuff easier for folks. get the electronics removed from the heat of the incubator so they are more stable that sort of thing. I have also been working on an electronic thermostat that can be put together for less than $5 but am a ways away from getting that one done also. I like the tinkering as much as the critters when it comes to stuff like this. can end up getting you a lot of critters though when you have to keep hatching eggs to test incubators

oh darn.