How to make an incubator for an egg do it yourself

Making an egg incubator with your own hands is quite simple. For this, you do not need to have any extraordinary abilities. You just need to get acquainted with the main features of the withdrawal of chicks from eggs.

DIY egg incubator from an old refrigerator or freezer

This is the easiest option for a chick hatcher. Refrigerators and freezers are leakproof, so it makes no sense to build a casing for the incubator. In addition, the device made in this way will look more aesthetically pleasing in the interior than put together boxes or boxes glued from polystyrene foam. Yes, and the capacity of the original capacity will be much higher, because the refrigeration chambers have shelves, while boxes and boxes require only a single-layer laying of eggs. If the egg incubator is made from the refrigerator with your own hands, then its bottom (the place where housewives and fruits are usually kept by housewives) is extremely convenient to use as a "nursery for newborns" chicks. After all, the first days they need heat up to 28 degrees. But it is lower than the main temperature in the incubator. In the lower part of the refrigerator, just such a place is formed where the chickens can be produced simultaneously with the incubation of other eggs.

How to make a do-it-yourself incubator

For this, the master will need heaters, thermometers and a temperature regulator - a special relay. It is best to purchase a thermal relay already ready. Although many craftsmen manage to make it at home on their own. Conventional lamps that are used to illuminate the room are connected in series to the relay. Experienced poultry farmers advise using 25 W light bulbs - this is the easiest way to adjust the temperature inside the device. If the volume is large, then to make an incubator for an egg with your own hands, it is recommended to take two relays with lamps: one sensor is placed on the middle shelf of the incubator, and the second sensor is on the bottom. Do not forget about humidity! Tanks must be constantly filled with clean water. You can also make an incubator for quails with your own hands - the only difference between them is that the egg cells must correspond to the size of the source material. The term of incubation in chickens is 21 days, and the quail of some breeds hatch after 16-18 days. Here, the specific term should be clarified, since for each species it will be quail different and ranges up to 23 days.

Eggs need to be turned over during incubation

All poultry farmers know this. But the process of turning over must be done up to three times in one day - the procedure is quite tedious and tedious. Therefore, some prefer to make an automatic device, thanks to which the egg trays can be turned with a tilt of 45 degrees in one direction or the other. Then manual intervention in this process can be abandoned. It should only be taken into account that the eggs must be installed with the blunt end up, otherwise the embryo can turn its head towards the narrow end, and there is no air void there. As a result, the chick suffocates already in the egg or at the time of birth.

Tips from an experienced breeder

1. Basically, all manuals indicate the optimum temperature for incubation of quail and chicken eggs at 37.6 degrees. Practice shows that the best hatching of chickens occurs if the temperature is slightly higher: from 38 to 38.3 degrees. The first two or three days you can even raise it to 39 degrees - for better warming up of the eggs.
2. Humidity in an incubator is very difficult to make optimal. Therefore, it is not bad to spray the eggs from the spray bottle with clean water at room temperature.
3. Do not wipe the eggs - this violates the protective film of the egg!
4. It is useful to dip the eggs about a day later in warm water, in which a drop of iodine is added. This disinfects the shell of the shell, increases the immunity of the future chick.
5. Before hatching the chicks in three days, the temperature must be lowered to 37.2 degrees. It is recommended at this time to “give rest” to the embryos, leaving trays in the open air for about an hour.