Sometimes goes on sale at Tractor Supply for $40. Farm Innovators IncubatorĪt Amazon sells for around $50. Small retail Incubators can be purchased for under $100. We increase the air flow during the last few days by cracking the lid open. It holds the heat better than a blanket & plastic bin but we have used both.
Diy egg incubator cracked#
With our last clutch, we cracked the lid open during the day and closed it at night. This is accomplished by adjusting the lid and/or moving the incubator to a room without temperature swings. We test for consistent temperature before adding fertile eggs. The hatch rate is 25-50% using this method. (The eggs can set for a few days and pick up incubating where they left off.) The incubator is made from items found around the house. We made a video of a quick incubator build we use when we find a few eggs abandoned by a hen. Not sure how that worked out when the chick was hatching. Legend tells us, someone once incubated a chicken egg under their arm. There are many homemade incubator ideas on the internet and in farming books. We had an 80 to 90% hatch rate with this incubator. The kids were all little at the time and we wanted to see everything! We placed a bowl of water for humidity (covered with wire to keep new hatchlings from falling in) and cut a few holes in the cooler for airflow. We cut out a square in the top and taped in a clear cd case so we could watch the hatch. This automated the light off and on, keeping the styrofoam cooler at a consistent temperature. We wired “inline” a hot water tank thermostat to a cord of a work lamp and set the temp to 100°. Our best homemade incubator was a modified "Matilda" designed from this website: Or, visa versa, if it is cold, the eggs will cool down. Hot days can easily be over 100° and when mama leaves her nest, the eggs heat up. However, this temperature range can flex, especially for us living in the Southwest. While setting on her eggs, the temperature stays at a consistent 99.5°f. If she does leave, it’s for a couple hours to take a dirt bath, eat, drink and/or …relieve herself. She sets for hour after hour, days on end and rarely, if ever, leaves her nest. If you are familiar with a hen, you will notice she regularly fuses with her eggs, turning and moving them around. The purpose of the homemade incubator is to mimic a mother chicken. I don’t know about reptile eggs but that would be a fun one to try :) You can stuff all kinds of unrelated eggs under them and they will brood, hatch and raise them - from chickens, turkeys, ducks, and guineas. Some of those little feathered creatures make the best mothers. Generally, chickens tend to be good setters once they reach 2 years old. When it comes to hatching eggs, nothing beats a hen. Preceding our successes were multiple “learning experiences”. We have made several and I have to say, it is not for the faint of heart. Temperature is automatically regulated by the digital heat controller.One of our favorite projects when the kids were young was making homemade incubators.
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