Rural Gardening: Just another homemade incubator, 1 by maineiac

maineiac wrote:
Hello everyone - I am a relative newcomer to poultry husbandry - but decided to get my feet wet a couple of weeks ago. I was gifted a "cull" serama bantam that didn't fit a local breeders guidelines, and immediately became fascinated by this miniature chicken. "Tiny Tim" stands about 7" tall and is fully grown. For anyone interested in seramas, just google them, there are a million links to the worlds smallest chicken. Anyhow - I purchased some serama eggs on ebay and eggbid.com (61 total with the extras) and acquired a used little giant still air incubator w/turner. If you know anything about incubators (most small incubators with a turner hold about 48 eggs) and math, you will notice a discrepancy in capacity requirements (actually, I won too many auctions), which required me to be forced into exploring incubator construction. I have enjoyed reading the other threads in re: to this topic and was hoping to share my experiences thus far. I am going to post several pics and descriptions. The hatch is going well so far, and I am cramped up from crossing my toes and fingers.