![]() The thermostat mount is 65 mm (2 ½”) forward of the rear edge. ![]() Cut a strip of galvanized roof sheet to connect the tray supports. These are for the rods that the supports rock on. Drill a similar hole 265 mm (10 ½”) from one end of the horizontal support mount. Drill 3 mm (1/8”) holes in the vertical arm of the support mount at 190, 320 mm (7 ½, 12 ½”) from the top end. This frame must be located forward 65 mm (2 ½”) from the rear edge to clear the heating hallway mounted in the back panel. The tray supports are mounted in a T shaped frame at the rear of the unit. ![]() Rear Tray Support Mount And Thermostat Mount Finally, my hatches run 40 – 60%, below the 70 - 80% a good incubator should produce but comparable to my hens’ performance. Building this incubator takes me a month. There are a number of items that may be hard to get other than from the sources I used in USA cited at the end. You will have to have access to acetylene welding equipment or someone who can fabricate for you the fuel tank and chimney. Presumably the reader is already familiar with the brooding phase of chick raising as that is where most folks begin: with day old chicks from a hatchery.īefore investing too much time and effort in construction you need to know this incubator requires good carpentry skills, preferably a table saw, and battery powered drill / screw driver. Once hatched, the chicks need to be kept warm at 32° C (90° F) for two weeks or more in a brooder. This document only covers the incubator I use, the bottom part of which could be used as a hatcher but ideally a separate hatcher should be used. Furthermore, artificial egg incubation requires three pieces of equipment: the incubator, a hatcher, and a brooder. The orientation here is toward solving the problems in building a kerosene fired incubator in general. Although this document will tell you how to build a particular incubator that I have used for several years, the ideas presented here should assist in building an incubator of any capacity.
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