ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal

[autumnprairie]

DH and I have still been discussing the whole incubator thing...

I think we've decided that I'm gonna try to build one. I have a large Omaha steaks styrofoam shipping cooler. DH suggested we pay $10 for a fan / heater combo from an automotive store, then I'd need a thermostat. I already have a thermometer that measures temp and humidity. I'm gonna try to rig a automatic turner too...

I'm not sure that I'm ready for this but we're gonna give it a try.

Good Luck

 

[bonbean01]

Wow...making your own! I went the lazy way and bought a styrofoam one for about forty bucks three years ago...no egg turner...mark one side with an X and one with an O and turn them five times a day for the first week and then three times a day for the rest of the time. Have a cheapie temp/humidity thing in there and it is still air. So far, each year we incubate and hatch out at least 100 chicks and that thing is still working. Hatch rate is excellent, both when we did quails and now changed to chickens.

Good luck with your incubator, sounds like it will be a cadillac

 

[Sunny & the 5 egg layers]

DH and I have still been discussing the whole incubator thing...

I think we've decided that I'm gonna try to build one. I have a large Omaha steaks styrofoam shipping cooler. DH suggested we pay $10 for a fan / heater combo from an automotive store, then I'd need a thermostat. I already have a thermometer that measures temp and humidity. I'm gonna try to rig a automatic turner too...

I'm not sure that I'm ready for this but we're gonna give it a try.

Yahoo! Good Luck! Let me know how it goes! I am on day 10 of my first hatch in my homemade incubator. Only 11 more days to go!

 

[Queen Mum]

Your critters are strange. Dont worry bout it though, I know the feeling!

I know!

Let's see...

I have a guinea who thinks that he is a chicken...a pullet that thinks that she is a guinea...a calf who thinks that he's a goat...a pig who thinks she's a dog...a drake (duck) who "loves" the guineas...a goat who knows how to "drive" a llama...a visiting stork who the boys refer to as "The Dork"...I wonder what makes my critters so strange?...I better not eat the grass!

Elevan, are you sure it isn't because of the people the FEED the animals? Just saying, that if you have GAS, you never know what side effects the Syndrome may have and if it could affect your animals.

 

[elevan]

 

[elevan]

Looks like Lilly is holding out for maybe another month. Which is great, cause that means Snickers' babies!

 

[elevan]

I finally feel like I'm a member of the living again!

May change my plan for the incubator...my brother "gifted" me with a fan from a microwave when he heard what I was up to...he also thinks he can find me a light fixture (heat source) and thermostat - FREE. So I might be able to pull off an incubator 100% FREE! Cross your fingers for me that I can make this thing work!

 

[Sunny & the 5 egg layers]

I finally feel like I'm a member of the living again!

May change my plan for the incubator...my brother "gifted" me with a fan from a microwave when he heard what I was up to...he also thinks he can find me a light fixture (heat source) and thermostat - FREE. So I might be able to pull off an incubator 100% FREE! Cross your fingers for me that I can make this thing work!

That is great. You save so much money building your own. The only thing I had to pay for in my incubator was the thermometer and the hygrometer.

 

[Squirrelgirl88]

Your critters are strange. Dont worry bout it though, I know the feeling!

I know!

Let's see...

I have a guinea who thinks that he is a chicken...a pullet that thinks that she is a guinea...a calf who thinks that he's a goat...a pig who thinks she's a dog...a drake (duck) who "loves" the guineas...a goat who knows how to "drive" a llama...a visiting stork who the boys refer to as "The Dork"...I wonder what makes my critters so strange?...I better not eat the grass!

Don't forget the mystery emu that lays eggs in the barn!

 

[elevan]

This about sums up my morning so far