Yeah, that's my exact thought(well, I hadn't thought to convert furniture, that's an extremely good suggestion). I have all the tools, and having the experience with the cooler I know what features I want to have. It's the cheapest part of the build too, a loss of $12 to ditch it. I won't be...
Only from the extra thermometer in there, the plastic isn't that thick. I started this latest hatch with 27 eggs and it was just a tad crowded but manageable, and there's been a bunch of infertiles(my lesson not to buy hatching eggs at the end of a three week heat wave haha) as well as an early...
Ok, so I've made some upgrades! Here's what I've done, let's see how it goes.
I lined it with foil and plastic, so the whole thing can be more easily cleaned. Dunno if Styrofoam really needs the extra insulation but it can't hurt, and ideally I don't want to lose any heat except to...
That's a really good idea with the cardboard box, I should do that too, I'm sure it would help in my drafty house. I'd always have to watch for when my mom gets up and opens the front door(it's open all day in nice weather) because that draft would come straight up the stairs to my set up.
Oh noo, that's so stressful! Yeah I figured with the dimmer, at least I know that when the temperature in the house changes, I need to adjust it(about 4x most days, morning when people wake up and open doors and it gets colder, noon when it gets hotter, evening it gets cooler, at night the doors...
So, after looking at the incubators available at my price point for the number of eggs I wanted to hatch, and the reviews about how unreliable the cheaper styro ones are, I decided to try my hand at making one myself. Here's what I did and how it went:
I started with your standard Styrofoam...