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Welcome! :welcome glad you joined us! I am in York. There are some on here that are getting eggs from their girls.. Alas, mine are giving me nothing right now. (They don't like the weather either)
But welcome!
 
PAchickenlover said:
Frigerbator? Did you convert an old refrigerator into an incubator? And if so how? I just got a new refrigerator and still have the old one.... What do you mean hatcher? Your eggs don't hatch in your incubator? Sorry, this is a new theory if you are saying what I think you are... Might have to re think some things... Thanks
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I used an old mini freezer, actually. Built same way as converting a cooler, two light bulbs, a fan, a thermostat, some ventilation holes.
At lock down, I move the eggs to a cooler Bator since I often have multiple batches in the primary incubator a few days apart. This allows me to increase humidity for lockdown without raising it in the main incubator. I can also adjust temperature for lockdown, or any other variable.
Mini freezer holds 120 or so chicken eggs in turners in its current configuration. Two coolers hold about maybe a couple or three dozen each, although I rarely have more than a dozen hatching in them at once.
 
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PAchickenlover said:
Frigerbator? Did you convert an old refrigerator into an incubator? And if so how? I just got a new refrigerator and still have the old one.... What do you mean hatcher? Your eggs don't hatch in your incubator? Sorry, this is a new theory if you are saying what I think you are... Might have to re think some things... Thanks
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I used an old mini freezer, actually. Built same way as converting a cooler, two light bulbs, a fan, a thermostat, some ventilation holes.
At lock down, I move the eggs to a cooler Bator since I often have multiple batches in the primary incubator a few days apart. This allows me to increase humidity for lockdown without raising it in the main incubator. I can also adjust temperature for lockdown, or any other variable.
Mini freezer holds 120 or so chicken eggs in turners in its current configuration. Two coolers hold about maybe a couple or three dozen each, although I rarely have more than a dozen hatching in them at once.
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Any way you can show pics of your freezer bator? I need to figure out how to wire everything up.. That is if you have any pics. I don't want you to have to open yours if you have eggs in it..
 
PAchickenlover said:
Quote: I also use two different one's.........I never hatch in one that has a fan,,, I prefer still air for hatching.......actually my hatcher is an old styrofoam incubator from TSC (the cheap $30 one )

I kept the incubator going for 8 months straight and never had to clean it since it never had anybody hatch in it,,,,Ok. the quail did once hatch in there only cause I forgot about them..

I have one of those little small dorm size fridges that doesn't work anymore,,,,wonder if that would make a good incubator
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