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Homemade Styrofoam cooler incubatorThank you! I've now had my 2nd successful hatch with it, and I will say that the reptile thermostat has been a life saver! I went out and bought...- MandyMusshafen
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Homemade Styrofoam cooler incubatorI have everything to make one except lights and window panes and hope to order them this week (if I can find what I need online!) I'm using...- McChooky
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MiniBatorI don't think so, I never made modifications to this build as I was a bit overly focused on my cabinet incubator. Why incubate two eggs when you...- BantyChooks
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Setting Up Perfect DIY Temp Control System for $45This is useful info, but it could use a bit more organization and formatting. All the line breaks in it make it a bit of a struggle to read.
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Setting Up Perfect DIY Temp Control System for $45Needs better formatting. Great idea, thank you for sharing!
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Stage II BrooderNice little brooders. This article could be improved by adding more build details, larger pictures, and a list of materials and tools used.- casportpony
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Mtulliss Chicken BrooderNice little brooder. This article could be improved by adding more build details, larger pictures, and a list of materials and tools used.
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Incubators & Brooders
Over 100 chicken brooders and incubators. Pictures, designs, and plans.
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MiniBator
- BantyChooks
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My large incubators are great, but they take up a lot of space. I have a small breeding population, so there are plenty of times when I only want... -
How to: Build a Homemade Incubator (Griffin Nest)
- Griffin Nest
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- 15 min read
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•Return to Homepage• How to: Build a Homemade Incubator I've seen some cool designs for homemade incubators all over the internet, but some of... -
Bens-Hens DIY Two Story Brooder
- Bens-Hens
- 6 min read
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We have a recycled two draw brooder box that I made for our first hatch. After a few weeks it has become evident that it is great for little... -
Ravenwood Acres Upcycled Hoosier Brooder
- RavenWood
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It gets cold in winter up here in Northern BC Canada, but a gal's gotta have hobbies to keep herself busy when the weather is too adverse to be... -
Rollout Nests
- Opa
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Many of you have gotten my plans for a 2 unit rollout nest box and I have talked with several others about how to modify the plan to make it even... -
Hack O Tronic Incubator
- t0m
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Hack-O-Tronic Incubator After a fox attack I found myself with an empty coop and decided to hatch out a new brood. As a first timer to... -
Brooding Our Little Flock
- GardeNerd
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Brooding Our Little Flock My family and I are backyard chicken keepers that can only have a few hens at time because we live in a big city with... -
4 Hills Cabinet Incubator
- 4HillsSumatras
- 7 min read
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4 Hills Cabinet Incubator. Hello all. Hope this will help someone like all the great ideas on BYC have helped us. We made a small incubator 5... -
Elwood Lightfoots Chicken Incubator
- Elwood Lightfoot
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My Homemade Incubator contest page, Introducing, MechaChicken- The Iron Hen, My Homemade Incubator, It's my first attempt to build an incubator... -
Home Made Incubator
- AK Michelle
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This is our Home Made Bator. We started with the directions from Miss Prissy that we found on BYC. Then we found the turner (many pages later in... -
Gopherboy Farms The Gopherbator Egg Incubator
- GopherBoyFarms
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GopherBoy Farms Gopher-Bator SUPPLY LIST Cooler Mesh wire Water heater thermostat Plug with about 2-3 ft wire Light fixture 40-watt light... -
Overbuilt not overpriced Brooder
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Housing 9 pullets and 1 cockerel (4-5 wks. in photo) in a 3' x 9' homemade brooder (screened in upcycled shipping crate - added lids, hinges and... -
Bens-Hens DIY Incubator
- Bens-Hens
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Hi all, Almost completed my first DIY incubator and am keen to share. I have made this from a gathering of information, part and materials from... -
Homemade Incubatoregg Turner
- DMRippy
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Welcome to My Homemade Cabinet Incubator and Automatic Egg Turner First thing you have to know about me is I am NOT going to spend any big money... -
Homemade Incubator
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This is my $12.00 bator It maintains a perfect 99.5 degrees, at 55 percent humidity. I used parts laying around the farm. they are as listed... -
Isabrowneyedsues Chicken Brooder
- isabrowneyedsue
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Hi! I'm Rebecca,my family and I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Last summer we got our first flock of chickens from an older farmer who... -
My Homemade Brooder
- Triple T
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Once my DH and I decided to build a brooder we did not have an actual drawn plan. What we did have was alot of reclaimed materials, an empty... -
Birdbrains Better Bator
- BirdBrain
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Birdbrain's Better Bator Okay, I realize that is a bit presumptuous, but it rhymed, so I went with it. After all, having a homemade bator is...