The Incubator Thread

[Chicken Egg 17]

Is there a bigger motor u could get or would it just be cheaper to get a new incubator

 

[stryker]

Is there a bigger motor u could get or would it just be cheaper to get a new incubator

I made a cabinet incubator that PD-Riverman helped me with the size and such. I figured that since I already have 4 egg turners I could turn them into two longer ones instead of two smaller ones if the motors could hold up. Wondering if anyone did this before. A bigger motor would help as well.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/High-Torque...872ae0&pid=100338&rk=6&rkt=30&sd=230455831140

Here is a link for a egg turner mother if it's any more volts than yours or not

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Egg-Turner-...d=100338&rk=1&rkt=30&mehot=pp&sd=230455831140

Here is another one that is cheap but just a thought is there some way u could us two motors for the egg turner

 

[stryker]

Thanks.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Anytime

 

[emvickrey]

I went sleepless for a few years when I first started hatching eggs. Then i got slack in the attention I was giving it. I had pretty good hatch rates when I baby sat it nearly 24 hrs a day. Then when I made myself not so attentative my hatch rates went way down. It would either spike or they would die just before they where due to hatch. Last year I paid alot of money for eggs and it was so disappointing I haven't hatched since. Im determined not to till I get a better bator.

I thought this bator I was asking about looked cheap in the pic. I want something that will maintain the temps all the way thru till they hatch. Tax time is the only time I can afford to spend the money so I need to decide on one in the next few weeks. I'm still leaning towards the Brinsea 20 at the moment.

 

[PD-Riverman]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/High-Torque...872ae0&pid=100338&rk=6&rkt=30&sd=230455831140

Here is a link for a egg turner mother if it's any more volts than yours or not

That is alot stronger motor than the original. I showed Stryker how one of my cabinets with "these type turners" is done----laying on a wire/wood frame shelf. I Feel there is NO need to re-invent something that works good---putting 2 of these turners on each shelf is simple and saves all the re-inventing of 1 double size----LOL. If one double size tears up you got 80/90 eggs to turn by hand till its fixed----if one regular turner tears up----you just pull it out and replace it with the spare one you got on the shelf-----My Thoughts!!!!

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Yes as it might be able to turn the eggs if they were to add in extra rows on the egg turning tray

 

[PD-Riverman]

I went sleepless for a few years when I first started hatching eggs. Then i got slack in the attention I was giving it. I had pretty good hatch rates when I baby sat it nearly 24 hrs a day. Then when I made myself not so attentative my hatch rates went way down. It would either spike or they would die just before they where due to hatch. Last year I paid alot of money for eggs and it was so disappointing I haven't hatched since. Im determined not to till I get a better bator.

I thought this bator I was asking about looked cheap in the pic. I want something that will maintain the temps all the way thru till they hatch. Tax time is the only time I can afford to spend the money so I need to decide on one in the next few weeks. I'm still leaning towards the Brinsea 20 at the moment.

Question----are you a "tweeker"? Just curious. I have used several styrofoam incubators and never had a heat spike unless I tweeked the electronic thermostat a little to try and raise the temp a speck---and it jumped way up. I do all or most all my tweeking before I put the eggs in. I read alot of people plug in their incubator for a day or two ahead-----get the temp right, open it and put their turner and eggs in----WRONG. The turner has a motor that gets warm---puts out some heat which effects the inside temp. Always put the turner in in the beginning----plugging both in. Now on day 18 when you take the turner out---seems with the electronic thermostat the heat drops a little----no turner motor heat now---I always have to tweek a speck to get the temp back right-----I do this and monitor it close for a few hours---then leave it alone----I have never had a problem. I have had real good hatches with them. I do NOT like these electronic thermostat that comes in alot of the cheaper ones I have, because they are so sensitive-----I rather have a wafer thermostat. I got a few styrofoam with the wafer thermostat and have used them many times----I just pull them out the box I store them in---plug them in and set the eggs when they are up to temp. RARELY ever having to touch/readjust the thermostat when it was stored from the last hatch. I rather have the wafer. My cabinet hatcher has the wafer----when I used it the first time I adjusted it to the right temp, used this hatcher every week for well over a year-----hatching 1000's and 1000's of eggs and have NEVER had to re-adjust the wafer thermostat and this hatcher is in a unheated/not cooled out building.

I like the thermostat I see on the Incuview, but I have never owned a incuview or a Brinsea.