Laura Ricketts wrote:
>
> What sort of set up or whatever do all of you use for
> incubating and hatching the eggs? I know some of you
> have invested in actual incubators, but does anyone
> else use homemade ones? Thanks
>
I have a homemade one that's been in use for just over 4 years.
It's just a styrofoam cooler, a 10 gallon size UTH and rheostat. The deli cups
sit on an egg crate platform raised about 2 inches above the UTH which is set to
approximately 88�F. The UTH is just slightly off centre, so the coolest spot is
around 82�F.
It's considerably cheaper to make than buying an incubator. The cheapest I could
find here in Canada was $90 CDN (appox $60 US), and I don't always trust 'the
cheapest' very much. This set-up cost me about $25 CDN.
But the biggest advantage is fixing it. If it breaks, I don't have to be a
mechanical genius to figure out what's wrong, and it's really easy to replace
the few working parts, no special parts order needed.
Hilde
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