In today’s episode of UK Here We Grow, Tony O’Neill is setting chicken eggs in a home made incubator with automatic egg turner. He built this back in 2012 and …
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In today’s episode of UK Here We Grow, Tony O’Neill is setting chicken eggs in a home made incubator with automatic egg turner. He built this back in 2012 and …
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Very interesting! Good luck!
Kudos to you!! That is pretty dagblam smart to build that. I have had mixed results with receiving eggs in the mail. One has to hope the seller is reasonably honest in that the eggs are not too old in the first place but if you can get a 50% hatch rate from them that is pretty good and I think you will be happy with that. Here's hoping!
P.S. Colors of the eggs are amazing. Love the olive ones.
Awesome update thank you for sharing Tony have a blessed day
Another very interesting and teaching video, Tony. I know from watching a channel called "50 Ducks in a Hot Tub" just how difficult it can be to get it right with a bought propagator, never mind one you have made yourself. Now I know, that you study everything before you attempt to do it, so I'm confident you will have a degree of success, so all the very best, Tony, cant wait to see the results!
Excellent DIY job on a homemade incubator Tony – very well thought out! Best of luck with the hatching out. Cheers :)
I made one the other year & I used a red light bulb on a dimmer switch to regulate the temperature & it worked well but I had to turn them by hand.
brilliant video Tony
ho tony ive used a light bulb for the last ten years had great results
Fantastic vid Tony, amazing incubator, looking forward to seeing how things progress, good luck.
An excellent informative video on setting eggs in an Incubator and timer. I don't understand the setting or how to rare chickens but I admire your clinical explanation. Best wishes Patrick
That's a well built incubator Tony. Hope you get a good hatch rate.
A very interesting episode. Many many years ago, I used to breed and show canaries. I had one of these on a much smaller scale. It was used to look after good eggs until the best mother hens were available to sit the last few days.
I also used to lightly mist the eggs before hatching to help soften the shell.
Nice one! ?…..all the best………..Nigel
I wish i could keep chickens..I don't for 2 reasons, well 3..We can't, Foxes and Vandals who are sick in the heed..Pity…Interesting vid though..:)
Great update Tony….My chickens have just stopped laying due to the fact there molting right now, They would pick winter to change there feathers, Any way i loved your home made Chicken Incubator, Who knows when the time comes i might dig my Incubator out of the loft and have ago like you've done….What worries me is what to do with the cocks, i don't really like to ring there nicks, Well not when there baby's lol
+Nora Hepburn HI Nora cant reply direct to your comment for some reason. we have used this incubatpr before and had 100% hatch rate for fertile eggs. we will see at day 10 which are fertile and remove any that are not. I will judge my hatch rate based on the fertile eggs only as if they werent fertile before they went in it will make no difference how good your incubator is. lol
Why worry, Your doing a brilliant job teaching us how to do it, Thanks for this superb video.
Hi Tony, fascinating video. I'm looking forward to seeing the whole process. Oh, by the way, the things you described as heat blocks are actually wire wound resistors.
That was really interesting mate. The electronics must have been a pain to try and find, otherwise you wouldn't have had a custom controller made. Everything you were saying sounds really logical so I don't know why it didn't already exist. Maybe you have found a gap in the market. 🙂 Great video as always mate. All the best.