DIY CABINET COOLER INCUBATOR How we did it and TEST RUN Ready Set GO!

[dheltzel]

Have I offended the expensive incubators ya think?

Maybe you'd better sacrifice a chicken, just in case.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote:

Have I offended the expensive incubators ya think?

Maybe you'd better sacrifice a chicken, just in case.

 

[Gardeningmama]

Lady, you've done it again! You never cease to amaze me!

 

[chicken pickin]

Im so going to try this!

I showed DH and he agreed to help me (I hope he stays patient lol).

 

[ozexpat]

1) Do you have a pan for water to increase humidity?

2) It looks like the entire weight of the eggs in the tray are held to the rods with tie-wraps, are you sure that is going to be strong enough? I'd worry about those popping and the tray crashing down.

i dont add water during hatch and use a seperate hatcher
6 tie wraps will last years doing that job. very clever

- seems like you got it covered Mrs Sunshine

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I put one coolerbators eggs in the new cabinet cooler incubator, I have already found myself turning alot more than 3x a day! My embryos love me now!



I may have a problem as a few of our CCL eggs and Layer eggs do not fit in this white tray enough that I feel confident with the 45 degree turn. They are too large

 

[chicken pickin]

Id love to see pics with the eggs in the bator.

How long roughly did it take you to build this?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Id love to see pics with the eggs in the bator.

How long roughly did it take you to build this?

Saturday about 6 hours and then Sunday after the blue stuff dried on the lights we hooked it up and then I started running it and adjusting that lower shelf and duct opening size, I sat there about 6 hours sunday fiddlin with that bottom to get it to hold temps evenly


I have two racks filled LOL I will go snap a pic!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Yes I trusted it enough to put my two batches of eggs in it from the other coolerbators!

Some are on day 6 and some are on day 11 (think)



see the trays are even level with eggs filled, I am paranoid of this angle 45 degrees, as I never had a turner like this and its like

HANGING AND EGG OFF A CLIFF! HA HA HA

 

[Sally Sunshine]

oh the top shelf has LAVS and some new CCL stock I bought and a few of our brahma

the bottom is our own eggs, Layers, CCL and the front are a few bigger serama eggs all the other serama had to stay in the smaller coolerbator as they fell through!