NYD Hatch-along Contest #8: Best Incubator Design - Voting Open Now!

[Lothiriel]

Voting will end at midnight, January 4 ​

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Best Incubator Design Contest​

The contest is for the best incubator for hatcher design/picture. It must be your own incubator or design and photo. Up to 3 entries per person. Post your design/picture here. ​

Rules:​

1. Post your pictures on this thread​
2. Post it by 11:59 PM EST, December 31, 2012​

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• Who: ​
  OPEN TO ALL OF BYC, NOT JUST THE HATCHERS!

• End: Midnight EST, December 31

• Prizes: The winner will receive Big Ole Bird Poultry Supplement

Prize info:

• 1 FREE Bottle of Big ole Bird Poultry Supplement
• 1 FREE Unit of Litter Life

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For all the other contests related to the New Year's Day Hatchalong please visit this page: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/4th-annual-byc-nyd-hatch-along-contests​

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Here is our Cooler bator and all its info and our first hatch in it!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/incubator-incubator

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Pic of my ultrabator... prior to the last upgrades

 

[sarahannecloud9]

Incubator pics. I used the chick chic bator for a model. I don't know if you would call it my design because I got my basic layout from her.
Found some great info on thermostats on youtube. I use a small sized paint tray, disposable kind, for the bottom water level to be adjusted. It has a cpl compartments and the one is slanted for better evaporation.

 

[tazcat70]

This the 4th incubator I have made. It is made from a wine chiller. There are 2 light bulbs in different locations to help prevent hotspots. There is also a small personal fan that faces towards the back of the incubator to circulate the air/heat. I rotate the eggs in their cartons. I love the huge glass door, and you can't see it, but there is a small light that I can turn on so I will be able to watch the entire hatching process!

I can take more pictures if anyone is interested.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

This the 4th incubator I have made. It is made from a wine chiller. There are 2 light bulbs in different locations to help prevent hotspots. There is also a small personal fan that faces towards the back of the incubator to circulate the air/heat. I rotate the eggs in their cartons. I love the huge glass door, and you can't see it, but there is a small light that I can turn on so I will be able to watch the entire hatching process!

who drank all the wine????

 

[Brookhavens]

Back in May of this year I decided that I wanted to have chickens again and thought it would be neat to hatch them myself. I started doing some research and after watching tons of videos on Youtube and looking at the incubators that other BYCers had built I gave it a shot. Mind you, I am a 49 year old woman with no "building" experience. I was so pleased with this incubator (holds temp. and humidity perfectly) that I decided to build another to use as a hatcher. My first cooler bator used a water heater thermostat and my second used a Bi-metal style thermostat. After a few hatches I came across an ad on Craiglist for a used Sportsman and decided to get it and use my coolerbators exclusively for hatching.

My first Coolerbator (when I used it for incubating) I have since removed the turner and replaced it with a piece of hardware cloth that looks like what is in my 2nd bator:



My second coolerbator:

 

[gabrielle1976]

 

[tazcat70]

who drank all the wine????

Actually, I was driving down the street and it was sitting on a front porch. I left a note asking about it. I think I paid $20.00 for it, then I used all the other stuff I had when I tore the other bators apart. No wine involved, at least not on my end. But come hatching time, I may pull up a chair with a glass and ring in the New Year.

 

[Talbott Poultry]

Incubator pics. I used the chick chic bator for a model. I don't know if you would call it my design because I got my basic layout from her.
Found some great info on thermostats on youtube. I use a small sized paint tray, disposable kind, for the bottom water level to be adjusted. It has a cpl compartments and the one is slanted for better evaporation.

Love the decorations (butterflies)

This the 4th incubator I have made. It is made from a wine chiller. There are 2 light bulbs in different locations to help prevent hotspots. There is also a small personal fan that faces towards the back of the incubator to circulate the air/heat. I rotate the eggs in their cartons. I love the huge glass door, and you can't see it, but there is a small light that I can turn on so I will be able to watch the entire hatching process!



I can take more pictures if anyone is interested.

I was thinking about using one of the small freezers that look like an apartment size fridge. Never thought about a wine cooler. Love the large see through door.

Back in May of this year I decided that I wanted to have chickens again and thought it would be neat to hatch them myself. I started doing some research and after watching tons of videos on Youtube and looking at the incubators that other BYCers had built I gave it a shot. Mind you, I am a 49 year old woman with no "building" experience. I was so pleased with this incubator (holds temp. and humidity perfectly) that I decided to build another to use as a hatcher. My first cooler bator used a water heater thermostat and my second used a Bi-metal style thermostat. After a few hatches I came across an ad on Craiglist for a used Sportsman and decided to get it and use my coolerbators exclusively for hatching.

My first Coolerbator (when I used it for incubating) I have since removed the turner and replaced it with a piece of hardware cloth that looks like what is in my 2nd bator:



My second coolerbator:

I like what you are doing using the Sportsman for a bator and the coolers as hatchers.

No wine involved, at least not on my end. But come hatching time, I may pull up a chair with a glass and ring in the New Year.

Sounds like a great plan to me.