My UofA and OE Hatch is doing very well. I have 10 eggs left un hatched so that equals 33 hatched. There are more pips in some of the 10 eggs. I will give them until after work and then peal open the reaming eggs.
The Yellow chick is a week old. It is a New heritage Del with a slight cross beak. It is growing and doing well so far.
These are the UofA chicks! Blue color chickens that lay very blue eggs.
Hey, I just saw you over in Mixed Breeds! Welcome! You should show the peeps over here your pretty boy...the one with the crele & lacing....SWEET!
Sex linked is wonderful, if only you could tell them all apart so easily!
That is a lovely egg!
We have a son named Austin. Nice name.
Say Hello to half of my weekend! Hubs and I have had a very busy weekend, more time fine tuning our new incubator so it has perfection in temps top to bottom, but our brainstorm has turned out amazing!
Gigantic Cabinet COOLER INCUBATOR w/semi auto turning
I took images all the way through this project even the fine tuning to get no variance top to bottom so I will create a Thread with how we did everything later on when I get all the stuff organized.
150 qt Coleman Xtreme insulated Cooler as big as I could find, $67. free shipping I think its just about 4' long
Dual Fan $17.00 for set of Four(used two), use old power inverter thingers I had, Two 90 Watt Lights in ceramics $1.97 each, single Wafer Thermostat $22., rear Air duct.cost of styrofoam? I had it leftover, foil tape $3.00 have half left over. Three of those egg trays you suggested out of the six in the lot $21. for lot of 6, 3 rods for the trays $1.95 each., Handle $1.97, plexi $1.98 x 2, shelf we had left over from our reno, and a pc of thin cabinet back for the lower shelf, and a tad of caulk and gasket sealant we had on hand. clevis pins were $1.25 ea. x3 and flat pc alum for turning was a buck or two. and one 2x3 lumber $2.97
est $132.00 cost
Here is hubs showing off his handywork of my GENIUS! HOWEVER I did get yelled at because I put the "darn thermometer" in his way for when he took the tray out!
Has some tweaking needs done, but Its awesome!!
Check out this vid of my fine tuning temps so top to bottom are identical, MIND you I messed with a taped piece of cardboard in the bottom and re-sized the return duct opening numerous times and the depth of the bottom shelf to get the temps the same. It wasn't an easy feat and my bum hurts from sitting in the kids little chair watching the thing and making minor adjustments! HA HA HA
This vid is before I added the permanent backer board shelf at the bottom as I was adjusting for perfection. I could technically include a hatcher in the bottom or another egg rack, but I dont want to hatch in it, but it has plenty room for additions stuff, also if you note the cut outs in the side of the cooler, you can easily take out the racks and turn this quickly into a multi level hatcher, we may do another for a hatcher and find plastic tubs to fit in the slits.
Awesomeness!!!! I love homemade things. The egg turner is really cool.... Better yet a couples project A+++++++++
Say Hello to half of my weekend! Hubs and I have had a very busy weekend, more time fine tuning our new incubator so it has perfection in temps top to bottom, but our brainstorm has turned out amazing!
Gigantic Cabinet COOLER INCUBATOR w/semi auto turning
I took images all the way through this project even the fine tuning to get no variance top to bottom so I will create a Thread with how we did everything later on when I get all the stuff organized.
150 qt Coleman Xtreme insulated Cooler as big as I could find, $67. free shipping I think its just about 4' long
Dual Fan $17.00 for set of Four(used two), use old power inverter thingers I had, Two 90 Watt Lights in ceramics $1.97 each, single Wafer Thermostat $22., rear Air duct.cost of styrofoam? I had it leftover, foil tape $3.00 have half left over. Three of those egg trays you suggested out of the six in the lot $21. for lot of 6, 3 rods for the trays $1.95 each., Handle $1.97, plexi $1.98 x 2, shelf we had left over from our reno, and a pc of thin cabinet back for the lower shelf, and a tad of caulk and gasket sealant we had on hand. clevis pins were $1.25 ea. x3 and flat pc alum for turning was a buck or two. and one 2x3 lumber $2.97
est $132.00 cost
Here is hubs showing off his handywork of my GENIUS! HOWEVER I did get yelled at because I put the "darn thermometer" in his way for when he took the tray out!
Has some tweaking needs done, but Its awesome!!
Check out this vid of my fine tuning temps so top to bottom are identical, MIND you I messed with a taped piece of cardboard in the bottom and re-sized the return duct opening numerous times and the depth of the bottom shelf to get the temps the same. It wasn't an easy feat and my bum hurts from sitting in the kids little chair watching the thing and making minor adjustments! HA HA HA
This vid is before I added the permanent backer board shelf at the bottom as I was adjusting for perfection. I could technically include a hatcher in the bottom or another egg rack, but I dont want to hatch in it, but it has plenty room for additions stuff, also if you note the cut outs in the side of the cooler, you can easily take out the racks and turn this quickly into a multi level hatcher, we may do another for a hatcher and find plastic tubs to fit in the slits.
