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yea i was talking about if you could use a fridge that has the top part freezer. if you would be able to turn both areas in to useable space. like the fridge the bator and the freezer the brooder.
It looks like it may actually be an upright freezer, rather than a fridge, maybe. I've never seen a fridge with no freezer compartment at all. Unless it's the old kind that had the metal freezer part, that might have been removed.
My DH and I have been talking about using an old freezer for a bator. We don't have a good place to put one that big, right now. I'm making space for a cabinet style one, but not as big as a fridge.
I thought about if we used a fridge, to use the freezer compartment as a hatcher, so I could stagger hatches in one appliance.I thought I'd leave the wire shelves in, covered with the rubbery non-slip mesh to reduce vibration. You could put auto turners right on the shelves. Then move eggs to the freezer compartment, with higher humidity, to hatch after day 18. Put a sheet of parchment paper on the bottom, cover that with non-slip shelf liner for the chicks to have good footing on. Then cleanup would be easy after each hatch, pull out the parchment, wipe out with vinegar to clean and disinfect, (peroxide is good, too) wash the shelf liner, or replace it. Ready for the next hatch!
Nice job, it looks great! Keep us updated!
its a freezer, your right! but i liked the name, what would i call a freezer bator. freez-a-bator??? mmmm no. lol
my water pan will be right under the hatcher, that hatcher is that wire tray at the bottom, so its kinda the same idea right?
