I have a wooden parrot brooder 18x18x18 or so with a sliding plexiglass front panel. It uses a top heating light bulb to heat and has one of those wafer thermostats with the metal adjuster you see on the foam hovabators to adjust the on/off of the heating bulb.
It uses a wire floor inserted over the wooden interior to keep the chicks out of their poo. I can place my thermometer/hygrometer inside at egg center height and use the thermostat to adjust to get the heat up.
I can place a shallow pie plate with a sponge underneath the wire to up the humidity. AND add paper towels on top of the wire under the eggs.
Once the plexiglass is slid closed, there are just 3 vent holes in the front. This is what I always used to raise my handfed pingpong sized 2 week old baby parrot chicks in.
I'm going to pull it out of storage and get it set up and adjusted and see if I can hold the temp and humidity at 99.5 and 60% and use this as my CHICK HATCHER. It has been stored in the garage for ten years now!
They go into lockdown Monday evening and that should give me time to trial run it! Hopefully this will work as I need the bator for more hatching eggs arriving a couple of days early.
Going to check the temp settings on the 'wine cooling refrigerator' and see if it is perfect for holding eggs in and the humidity of it. Maybe I can delay my setting the eggs by a day or two?
Cheers all and any expert advise from dual breeders (parrots/chickens?) chime in and give me your suggestions!
Thanks, Bonnie in OHIO::
It uses a wire floor inserted over the wooden interior to keep the chicks out of their poo. I can place my thermometer/hygrometer inside at egg center height and use the thermostat to adjust to get the heat up.
I can place a shallow pie plate with a sponge underneath the wire to up the humidity. AND add paper towels on top of the wire under the eggs.
Once the plexiglass is slid closed, there are just 3 vent holes in the front. This is what I always used to raise my handfed pingpong sized 2 week old baby parrot chicks in.
I'm going to pull it out of storage and get it set up and adjusted and see if I can hold the temp and humidity at 99.5 and 60% and use this as my CHICK HATCHER. It has been stored in the garage for ten years now!
They go into lockdown Monday evening and that should give me time to trial run it! Hopefully this will work as I need the bator for more hatching eggs arriving a couple of days early.
Going to check the temp settings on the 'wine cooling refrigerator' and see if it is perfect for holding eggs in and the humidity of it. Maybe I can delay my setting the eggs by a day or two?
Cheers all and any expert advise from dual breeders (parrots/chickens?) chime in and give me your suggestions!
Thanks, Bonnie in OHIO::
