For a small farm, compact instruments for the output of young people are needed. At home, it is easy to make an incubator with your own hands using braid materials.

The focus is paid to the body, which should provide a stable temperature regime. For this purpose, an old refrigerator is suitable or a box collected from foam. Inside the trays are inserted into which eggs are laid. Work on their coup and maintain the required temperature can be automated.

The homemade device has several advantages:

1. 1. The device made by your own hands is cheaper.
2. 2. Making a product can be made according to its needs for the desired number of eggs.
3. 3. The apparatus made from undergraduates is cheaper in maintenance.
4. 4. It is possible to install an additional power source. It will be needed if the electricity is turned off.

Requirements

The start of work is to prepare the drawings of the design and the development of the circuit of the electrical part. At this stage, the necessary requirements for the device are laid:

1. 1. In the case of the incubator, an additional space is envisaged to be able to increase the amount of cultivation of young.
2. 2. The focus is on the method of heating and thermal insulation.
3. 3. The presence of ventilation. For this side and in the day the holes are drilled. In the manufacture of a refrigerator inside fans are installed inside.
4. 4. The apparatus must have a reliable power supply system that would not have given failures.

There is an incubator in a warm and dry room with a temperature of at least 20 degrees and a moisture level of no more than 20%.

Simple incubator

The easiest way to manufacture an incubator is a wooden version. The property of wood slowly heat up and at the same speed to give heat makes it a comfortable material.

Production Description:

• The box can be taken ready or led independently.
• Inside the space is trimmed by plywood to cover the slit.
• From above, the holes with a diameter of 10 mm are drilled and covered with glass. It will be viewing windows.
• Supports are made to install trays made of foams.
• In the lower part, the installation of wiring and cartridges is carried out.

This type of incubator made from the box belongs to a simple design that can be made with your own hands.

For quail

For quails, a box is taken, in which the humidity adjustment is provided. It is supported using the ventilation holes and the water containers located in the incubator.

Grids on which quail eggs are located should be able to rotate at an angle of 45 degrees. This is achieved by a lever derived from the housing.

From the refrigerator

To make an incubator from a refrigerator, a freezer and all shelves are removed from it.

After drawing up the drawing and the connections, the following steps are carried out:

• Outside the holes are drilled. One for ventilation purposes, and the rest for incandescent lamps.
• In order to maintain heat, the wall of the refrigerator is cured with expanded polystyrene.
• Trays are installed. If there is an opportunity, the shelves of the refrigerator are reworked under them.
• At the top, outside, the thermostat is underway. The sensor is located in the inside.
• Downstairs 3 holes with a size of 1.5 x 1.5 cm for ventilation are cut.
• Near the lamps and below are fans. They provide air circulation.

The advantages of such an incubator in its dimensions where you can accommodate up to 500 eggs.

Incubator from the refrigerator

From foamflast

Such material is optimal. He has low weight, low price, it has thermal insulation qualities.

As materials used:

• 2 sheet of foam 50 mm thick and 100 x 100 cm gabarites.
• Glue or Scotch.
• 4 incandescent lamps together with 25 W cartridges.
• Fan.
• Temperature regulator.
• Trays.

Step-by-step instruction manufacturing incubator for chicken eggs:

1. 1. The first sheet of foam is cut into 4 equal parts. They will become the side walls of the incubator.
2. 2. The second is divided first in half, and then one of the halves is cut to sheets of 50 x 60 and 50 x 40. The first will become a lid, and the second bottom.
3. 3. The lid is made by a groove of 13 x 13 cm. It is simultaneously both viewing and ventilating hole. From above closes with plastic.
4. 4. The first sheet is cut into 4 parts gluits the framework. Bottom is pasted bottom.
5. 5. The entire body with the bottom is tightened with scotch.
6. 6. Supports from foam are attached along the walls and trays are installed on them.
7. 7. At a distance of 1 cm from the bottom of the soldering iron, 3 ventilation openings with a diameter of 12 mm are burned.
8. 8. For the rigidity of the lid from all the sides, bars are attached to it. They are also made of foamflast. They are indent from the edge of 5 cm and included inside the housing. Fit close to the side walls, the lid is securely fixed.
9. 9. A hole in the lid skews the hole. Outside there is a thermostat, and inside the sensor.
10. 10. The incandescent lamps are attached.
11. 11. Trays located inside must retreat from the walls at a distance of 5 cm so that the ventilation process does not break.

So that the heat in the incubator created from the foam is maintained longer, you need to additionally insulate the walls and the ceiling. For this, foil thermal insulation is suitable.

From the microwave oven

The microwave ovens make an incubator on the same principle. The disadvantage is its small size. Therefore, it can be used to withdraw quail.

Production Features:

• The housing of the microwave oven is trimmed by a foam for better heat conservation.
• To ensure the influx of fresh air, the vent hole is made. The door is not instep.
• Inside the tray with eggs is inserted. Immediately under it is a container with water for moisture.

Connection Scheme Immediate Incubator

Automatic coup Yaitz

In order to successfully carry out the incubation process, the eggs must be rotated 180 degrees. If you do this manually, it takes a lot of time. For this purpose, an automatic turn is applied.

Types of automatic coup mechanisms:

1. 1. Mobile grid. As a rule, used in small structures. The principle is that the eggs lie in the cells, and the grid was laid under them, which slowly moves. During her movement, the eggs begin to rotate. The disadvantage includes what they may not turn over, and the grid will pass idle.
2. 2. Roller system. Finds less frequently using your own hands. The system is rollers with sleeves that stretched the grid. At home, it is difficult to make this.
3. 3. Tilt of the tray at an angle of 45 degrees. Eggs located in cells are not rolled. But when the grid moves their turn.

The last way was used in large incubators made of refrigerator.

Having a household, it is advantageous to have a small device for the output of young. It makes no sense to purchase an industrial option that is expensive. The apparatus made by your own hands will fully comply with the necessary requirements and size of the economy. The costs for its repair are minimal.

The homemade incubator can be made in several ways from the girlfriend. It will work not worse than the store analogue, but it turns out much more economical. Capacity is chosen based on personal needs, and the tray turning mechanism can be both manual and automatic.

At home, you can collect an incubator from:

• Polystyrene foam
• Tolstoy cardboard,
• Plywood sheets
• Washing machine
• Old refrigerator.

The size of the incubation machine is selected individually, and depend on:

1. The required number of eggs for bookmark
2. The location of the heating elements.

The average incubator with dimensions: 45 * 30 cm accommodates:

• up to 70 chicken
• up to 55 ducks
• up to 55 turkey,
• up to 40 goose
• up to 200 quail eggs.

Regardless of the material or sizes, each device consists of:

• Covers (with or without window),
• Hull
• Tray and lattice,
• Lamps
• Water containers to maintain humidity,
• Thermometer.

Models with automatic or semi-automatic rotation of the tray are also equipped with a digital timer.

Models with hand turning tray

For the manufacture of simple incubators at home, minimum of materials and tools are required, and you can easily make it in a few hours. Cons - insufficient thermal insulation, fragility and hand-cutting grilles with eggs.

Polyfoam incubation machine

The advantages of this model: lightness and compactness, inexpensive cost and simplicity in the manufacture.

It is possible to make an incubator from foams as follows: the walls are cut out of the sheet of polystyrene foam, a thickness of at least 5 cm. Recommended size sidewall - 50 * 50 cm, end - 50 * 35 cm. Collect the case and correctly distribute the inner space. The walls are bonded by glue, or they can be glued together with a wide scotch. 3-4 vent holes pierce the bottom.

The foam incubator is equipped with a lid with a glazed viewing window. The glass is not necessary to firmly fix: if there is a need to reduce the temperature - it can be moved away. So that the cover is more densely and not loosened the design, you can glue on wooden bars. The thermostat and the thermometer is installed next to the window.

Incubating chicken eggs in a foam incubator occurs under the influence of three incandescent bulbs, with a capacity of 25 W. In this amount it is enough to maintain the required temperature. The bottom of the chamber is installed water tank. The lattice for eggs is assembled from a solid galvanized grid with a cell size of 2.5 * 1.6 mm. Each side of the tray is trimmed with durable marks: if this is not done, the chicks can be injured. To install trays on each other around the perimeter, flights are increasing, a height of at least 10 cm.

Air circulation inside the incubation chamber will be better if to attach the usual fan from the computer.

The foam incubator for chicken eggs can be equipped with an additional heating indicator that are placed under the grills.

Incubation machine from the box

Incubator for chicken eggs from cardboard - economical and simple, and the assembly of such a design does not take much time. Make a device from a regular box from under household appliances. It is not recommended to take a big one - the volume will be difficult to warm up, and use more powerful lamps is dangerous. At a distance of 4-5 cm from the bottom 6-7 vent holes, with a diameter of 3 to 7 mm.

From the inside to the side walls at an altitude of 9-10 cm from the bottom, wooden rails are fixed. Selfly covered with cellophane or oilcloth, and the wooden bars are put on top. A bath with water is placed on the resulting pallet, and on the rail - a regular store tray for eggs. For the receipt of fresh air from above, another 3-4 holes are made in the lid, with a diameter of about 5 mm. Next to them, the thermometer hangs and penetrate one additional hole under the wire from the lamp.

For heating the incubator, the incandescent lamps are used with a power of 25 watts. Air humidity is regulated by opening the lid.

Incubator of plywood

This model differs from previous greater strength and best heat saving characteristics. How to make an incubator:

1. From the sheet of plywood, the walls are cut. Larger thermal insulation can be achieved by making them double,
2. The dimensions of the device are selected individually,
3. The lid is also cut out of plywood, and is made removable,
4. To control the process in the lid, a small window is dilated,
5. Around the perimeter of the lid - holes for ventilation, with a diameter of no more centimeter,
6. From the inside to the walls of the improvised incubator, the rei for installation of trays,
7. For air exchange in the floor, 4-5 holes are drilled,
8. The heating element for the incubator usually perform incandescent lamps, but for a large volume you can use a tubular electric heater (TEN),
9. The minimum distance between lamps or ten and eggs - 25 cm,
10. The minimum distance between the trays (if there are several of them) - 15 cm,
11. Tray for eggs of frame-type, collected it from a metal grid and cubs with a marlevary grid,
12. At the bottom, the capacitances of the same size for water are installed.
13. The finished incubator for eggs put in a warm room with good ventilation on a flat surface, and connected to a conventional electrical network.

Automated models

There are several ways to make an incubator with your own hands with an automatic coup of eggs, uninterrupted food and good heat saving.

The incubation apparatus from the refrigerator

How to make an incubator with backup power: the housing of the incubator from the refrigerator is assembled. For this purpose, the inner space is cleaned and washed well with a disinfectant solution. A pair of viewing windows that are glazed from the inner and the outside are cut into the door.

From the inside the camera is divided into two parts. Lower - incubation, equipped with trays. Top - output, a fixed shelf is installed in it. The partition is cut out of the sheet of plywood, and several holes for the air exchange break in it. To circulate air at the bottom of the incubation chamber, a small fan is installed at the bottom of the incubation chamber, and next to it in the side wall is drilled a pair of holes, a diameter of about a centimeter. For air output at the top of the case, similar holes make.

The electrical scheme looks like this:

1. The thermostat for the output and incubation chamber,
2. Emergency thermostat,
3. Voltage stabilizer for 10 V,
4. Heater for the incubation compartment,
5. Heater for output separation,
6. Spare heater connected to a backup power unit,
7. Reserve battery for incubator by 12 V,
8. Psychrometer,
9. Turning mechanism,
10. The moisture level regulator inside the output and incubation chamber.

In automatic mode, the operation of the backup power incubator provides a control unit that controls all the main nodes. The specified temperature in the chambers support independent thermostators and heating elements, and electronic thermometers correspond to temperature control. They can be assembled independently, using various ready-made schemes, but if there is little experience with microelectronics - it is better to buy. The heating system is collected from light bulbs with a capacity of 20-25 W, or the heating cord is paved to save electricity around the perimeter.

The automatic mechanism of the enemy coup in the incubator works every two hours, turning the trays by 45 °.

A temporary electronic relay is responsible for the operation of the mechanism, which is assembled from the low-speed engine and gearbox. The output gear shaft must make a complete turn around the axis for 4 hours. Replace a homemade relay with a similar device from the old drum washing machine. The mechanism is driven by a motor from the car wiper. To reduce the turnover, it is complemented by a step-type chain gearbox.

The main axis to which the asterisk of the gearbox is attached, the lower lattice for eggs is installed. Two options are hanging over it, and the distance between them is at least 15 cm. For simultaneous rotation, all trays are connected by a burden.

The incubator scheme for eggs involves the presence of two power sources: universal and uninterrupted. The backup power of the incubator is carried out from the battery or power supply. Power supply power - 120-150 W, and battery for incubator - from 12 V.

To maintain humidity on the bottom of the incubation chamber, a capacity with water and a fan is put.

Automatic incubator

Another option, how to make an incubator with an automatic enemy coup. The case can serve as a frame from a washing machine or an old bees hive.

The incubator device looks like this:

• Housing
• Tray system,
• Heating system
• Fan,
• Grid rotation mechanism.

In order to be inside the target air temperature, it is necessary to insulate the incubator walls. For this purpose they are trimmed by foam. To ensure air exchange on one side of the wall at the bottom, and on the other - at the top we make holes. Diameter is no more centimeter. Holes can be equipped with plugs. The lid cut the viewing window, which is glazed. The glass is not fixed firmly: if it is necessary to reduce the temperature inside the chamber - it is moved.

Trays are collected from a metal grid with a cell pitch of about 2.5 cm, and tighten the mosquito net so that the hatched chicks do not damage the paws. The auto-rotation for the incubator is done like this: the holes are powered in the lattice frame, and they themselves are attached to the axis. All parts of the mechanism are bonded between themselves, and reduction engines are used as a drive, with a capacity of up to 20 W. For a smooth movement of the tray, it is recommended to take a chain in increments of 0.52 mm. A temporary relay is responsible for automating the process.

It remains to establish a system of heating the entire design. The heating element for the incubator of this model is a spiral from old irons. They fasten the spirals to the walls with screeds or brackets so that if necessary, they can be easily replaced.

The minimum distance of the heating element from the tray is 20 cm.

In the incubator for chickens, with their own hands made according to this scheme, the thermometer is necessarily hung, and the water container is placed on the bottom. For better air circulation to the bottom grid, you can attach a fan. A psychrometer must be in the cell. The device measures humidity indicators, and you can buy it in any pet store.

Before building an incubator must be understood how many eggs are you going to store it. The fact is that the incubator, designed for 50 eggs to build easiest, because it is possible to distribute the heat with a fan, but evenly placing the heating elements. So, proceed to the construction of the incubator.

Housing

The case of the incubator can be anything, starting from the packaging box or bee hive and ending with the old fridge, the main thing that the base area is enough for a comfortable placement of eggs. After all, from the wall of the incubator to the edge of the tray, the gap should be six or ten centimeters for better ventilation.

But how to improve ventilation? In the bottom of the incubator do 5 holes with a diameter of at least one centimeter. Despite the fact that at the bottom there should be a baking sheet with water to maintain air humidity, it should not close these holes, it can be put on the backups with a height of 3-5 centimeters for better air circulation. The ceiling should be glazed 10x10. The glass must be moved to one and a half centimeters for better air circulation. The main thing during the work does not forget about the door so that the eggs can be turned and change the water.

Tray

For eggs, the tray is selected in the form of a frame with a capped mesh stretched from above with cells 5x5. In order to make it easier to turn the eggs, the tray must be in the movable frame, devoid of the bottom. With four mm width, less tray width and 10 centimeters are less than a length. On the narrow side of the frame you need to fix the rail for ten centimeters from each other. When turning the moving frame, the eggs will be rotated too.

Heating

How to position the heating elements?

It is best to get warm in the incubator if the thermal elements are located on top. In this case, the heat transfer will be maximum, since the cold air coming from ventilation from the bottom will not have time to mix with the warm air from the top. The distance from the eggs to the heater varies from the type of heater itself.

If the heat source is the point (like incandescent lamp), then the distance must be at least twenty-five centimeters. If the heater is in the form of a spiral, then ten centimeters.

The total power of the light bulbs heating the incubator must be 80 watts. The less Watt is the lamp - the better.

Temperature control

Do not forget to purchase a thermostat. The regulators of up to 300 watts are best suited.

Video lessons

You can breed a poultry or with the help of a zeal, if there is such an incubator. Most breeders prefer to enjoy these machines. Incubators are both industrial type and self-made. Next, the article will be described in more detail what and how to do, to achieve the desired result.

Create an incubator using my hands is quite simple and even an inexperienced poultryman can do it. Homemade cars have enough plenty of benefits:

• low cost;
• reliability;
• just do;
• it is possible to create a design to the desired amount of eggs.

Do not think that the homemade devices once two and turned around, actually there are a lot of them. People use even such materials that seem to have already opposed their lives, for example: old refrigerators, boxes, buckets, thais.

A very large number of poultry farms are engaged in the removal of young at home, and as mentioned above, there are no supplies in every farm capable of surrounding chickens. Often there are such situations that young people must be obtained by a certain period.

Good to know.In some firms dealing with similar machines, you can buy a set and make a home incubator. However, many people have problems with a lever coup tray, which is not so easy to assemble the birds without special skills.

In this case, make an incubator where it is easier in the presence of appropriate schemes or drawings.

The creation of a chickens is considered to be the most effective option, compared with the purchase of an industrial type device. In the first embodiment, it is easy to take into account the features of the place where the incubator will stand, the individuality of the structure, as well as the conditions for breeding homemade feathers. In addition to the benefits already listed, self-made devices have the following advantages:

• easily maintain the given microclimate parameters to ensure a high percentage of chicks survival;
• universality, you can adapt to the elimination of any poultry, including for a number of exotic species (ostriches, parrots);
• energy is economically spent.

An important feature of home incubators, which are mounted according to individual drawings, is that various utility materials are going on their manufacture, which have already been in operation. It is important to remember that they must satisfy the sanitary requirements so that the bird of young people can develop successfully.

The same poultry farms, most often choose one of the most running models of incubators made by their own hands:

• alteration of released from the working state of the refrigerator;
• carton boxes;
• foam sheets;
• plywood or wooden boards.

It is absolutely not necessary to make an incubator from those materials that were presented above. Any poultryman can decide how and from what to create a useful car to him. True, it is necessary to take into account such a moment that it is necessary to choose the right dimensions of the device correctly, and take into account some factors, namely, how many eggs will be laid, and where to mount the lamps to heat the incubation chamber.

To make a high-quality car, you need to clearly calculate its dimensions. These parameters will depend on which production volumes on the farm, and, again, on the number of incubation material, which will be laid at times. The second indicator is a priority.

The average sizes of the device 45-47 x 30-40cm (in length and width) can accommodate eggs in the next amount, of course, approximately:

• goose - 40 pieces;
• turkey, duck - 55 pieces;
• chicken - 70 pieces;
• quail - 200 pieces.

The type of heating system will influence the size of the machine, and the location of the fastener of incandescent bulbs. The materials that will be on the manufacture of an incubator are also played.

1. Choosing the workpiece, it is important to take into account the moment that all materials should be dry, purified from pollution, paints and fat, the presence of mold on them is unacceptable.
2. It does not matter which material will be selected, the collection and casing of the frame is performed in such a way as to prevent any heat leak from the inside. Having the presence of a slit is necessarily close in a sealing agent.
3. The incubator should be a specially dedicated space for water tanks (they help maintain moisture at the required level).
4. To maintain the temperature mode, lamps having a power in 25W (1 piece) them amount 4 - 5 pieces. So that the heat is evenly distributed inside the camera, one lamp should be installed at the bottom of the device.
5. Be sure to be exhaust holes in the number of several pieces.
6. To organize control over the incubation process, it is necessary to provide a viewing window, which will be done in the upper wall of the unit. You will also need a good thermometer.

Starting work on the creation of an incubator is important to remember that the machine must appear, providing conditions necessary for the development of embryos in eggs and hatching from them in the laid time of healthy young.

If we talk about the design and equipment of the unit, then conditions should be created similar to what the income for future offspring creates. The most important indicators here are temperature regime and humidity.

When designing the device, it must be remembered that the breeder must have the ability to monitor the temperature and humidity of without any obstacles.

Good to know.Incubation of eggs most of the most popular types of poultry are carried out at a temperature of +37.1 to + 39 ° C.

After the placement of the material into the unit, it is heated to a maximum, which in different types of its species, and by the time the chicks appear on the light are reduced to the desired minimum. It is possible to get acquainted with the temperature for different bird species in the following table.

Temperature and humidity indicator for egg incubation

Before working on creating a car, it is necessary to determine the basic materials for the manufacture. You can take large foam pieces or a simple box of cardboard. Suitable and unnecessary refrigerator. The main factor in the selection is the thermal insulating property of the material.

Good to know.Fontoam structures will have the lowest heat loss, and the box of cardboard cannot boast of such a characteristic.

An important role is played and heating the chamber of the incubator. To maintain the required temperature, lamps or heating instrument are used, but you can track the indicators using a thermometer.

Very painstaking and burdensome work is the coup of incubation material, so it is recommended to automate the process to significantly save time. Most often, turning mechanisms put on large cars, where they are laying from 200 eggs.

Depending on which model you need to make using the following tools:

• the old refrigerator, a box of cardboard, Phaneur (boards);
• foam sheets;
• incandescent bulbs with a capacity of 25 - 40W. The required amount is determined by the dimensions of the machine;
• egg trays, the manufacture of metal mesh, wood or plastic is on their manufacture;
• thermometer and fan;
• if an automatic incubator is mounted, then you should not forget about the thermostat, it is made from bimetallic plates, barometric sensors;
• with the help of a hygrometer, the humidity indicator tracks;
• working instruments (pliers, knife, insulating tape, saw, etc.)

How to determine the optimal incubator size? - Mini, 100, 500, 1000 eggs

Most often, farmers for households use incubators that accommodate about hundreds of eggs with cells having a diameter of 45 mm and a depth of 60 - 80 mm (for bookmark the egg products).

Such structures have a size of about 60x60 cm and a mass of 3 kg. If desired, the machine is made universal, due to replaceable tray lattices having different sizes. As a result, in the same incubator, it is possible to display not only chickens, but also geese, foresters, turks, ducks or quail.

You can get acquainted with the size of various types of cars and their capacity in the following table.

Capacity and size of incubators

If there is no desire to buy an incubator, but there is an old refrigerator in the farm, then it can give a new life. In the former product repository, a given temperature is perfectly maintained, which is supposed to help the walls of the refrigerator having thermal insulation properties.

In place of the shelves is very simply listed with eggs with eggs, and thanks to the fastening grooves on the inner walls of the chamber, all the products of the car altitude are evenly distributed. The volume of the refrigerator is enough for the installation of the bottom of the water tanks with which the humidity maintenance is adjusted.

Any incubator must be equipped with at least the simplest ventilation system. It will carry out air exchange inside the machine, contribute to maintaining the temperature mode and adjust the humidity to create the ideal conditions suitable for the removal of chicks.

The optimal ventilation rate is 5m / s, and the fan must move the air mass. Top and bottom of the refrigerator are done (drilled) air holes.

To prevent air from entering the trim, the holes are supplied with plastic or metal tubes having the desired diameter. With partial or complete overlap of which ventilation is adjusted.

The easiest method to heat the inner chamber is to use incandescent lamps (4 pieces 25W, 2 pieces 40W). Lamps are evenly distributed from below and on top of the machine. When installing lighting devices, it is important to remember that they should not be a hindrance for water trays.

An important part of the incubator is the thermostat they are three species:

• bimetallic plates;
• thermometer having a mercury base and electrode;
• barometric sensor.

With the help of the first, the electrical circuit is closed, as soon as the desired temperature is reached, the heating is turned off, the third closes the chain, as soon as excessive pressure occurs.

In the process of incubation, eggs must be turned over several times a day. In natural conditions, this function is performed by chicken, the special mechanism is necessary.

The work is performed at the expense of an electric motor that leads to the operating state of the rod transmitting the motor pulse to the egg tray. To create such a mechanism you need:

• from the bottom of the camera to make a gearbox;
• make a frame from a tree that will keep trays. Fasteners are carried out in such a way that the trays bent at 60 ° to the door and are as in the opposite direction;
• the gearbox must be firmly fixed;
• connect with electric motor rod connected to egg tray.

It remains more detailed to talk about how to re-equip the refrigerator into the incubator:

1. The assembly ceiling is supplied with holes where lamps for heating and through holes for ventilation will be inserted.
2. Bottom drill at least 3 holes having a diameter of 1.5 cm.
3. To preserve heat better, it is recommended to finish the walls of the refrigerator foam.
4. The thermostat is fixed to the outer part, and the inner supply is supplied by a sensor;
5. To organize the circulation of air masses, the fans in the amount of 1 - 2 pieces are fixed next to the lights (top) (computers are suitable);
6. A small window is cut into the door of the former refrigerator - observation and closed with glass, you can use transparent plastic.

Incubator with your own hands from the refrigerator: video

The use of a cardboard box is a very cheap way to make an incubator, but you should not count that the resulting design will be durable and served centuries. Works are performed in the following order:

1. It is necessary to take a box, the dimensions of which are calculated on the basis of the number of planned incubation products. The inner part of the box is pasted with a multi-layer or felt with paper.
2. Holes are done where the wiring will be released. On the inside, 25W light bulbs are fixed in the amount of 3 pieces. They must be higher by 15 cm than incubation materials. The available slots are available, even where the wiring is climbing with cotton, but it is important not to forget about the presence of ventilation holes.
3. Making wooden trays for eggs and mounting rails (for installation of trays), doors.
4. Place inside the incubator the thermometer, down to put the container with water, cut through the side viewing window.

Incubator with your own hands from a cardboard box: Video

The most popular and convenient material for the installation of the incubator - foam. Its cost is very small, besides, there are excellent thermal insulation characteristics in the sheets, and the resulting design will not be very cumbersome and severe.

Production of foam incubator

1. You need to take a foam sheet of suitable size and divided into 4 identical pieces, from which the sidewalls of the incubator will be made.
2. The second sheet is divided by half, and one is divided into two, so that one sheet has a width of 60 cm, and the second 40 cm. From the workpiece 50x40 cm Mastery Mastery, and from the leaf 50x60 - the lid.
3. A 12x12 cm hole is cut into the lid for the window and closed with glass or plastic.
4. Four parts glued so that the box is turned out after the glue will freeze attach the bottom. The sheet is gently smeared with adhesions on the edge and then insert into the main billet.
5. After making the box, it must be saved with scotch, to gain stiffness with construction.
6. Now the bars are cut off all of the same foam having dimensions of 6x4 cm (height and width), they are glued inside the box on the bottom along the long sides.
7. In short walls make ventilation holes retreating 1 cm from the bottom, with the same distance from each other, in the number of three pieces. The best job is best to make a soldering iron.
8. Brukes of foam are glued to the lid along the edges, for a more dense lid fixation.
9. The outer part of the lid is equipped with a thermostat, and its sensor is fixed inside at a distance of 1 cm from eggs.
10. Installing trays with incubation material It is important to remember that the distance between them and walls should be from 4 to 5 cm that ventilation was carried out in normal mode.

Homemade incubator with hand with a coup: video

As you can see from the article to make an incubator, with your own hands, quite simple. Such devices have different envelopes and equipment, it all depends on how many chicks it is planned to withdraw. Before installing the machine, you need to consider the project to be thought out to get a worker unit.

The question of the independent manufacture of the incubator at home is relevant for all farmers involved in poultry farming. Especially interested in how to make a home incubator, owners of small farms and household plots, where there is no point in acquiring industrial devices. The number of birds on the country farms is small, so the incubator designed by its own hands is the optimal alternative. How and what to make an incubator, you will learn on this page.

Advanced Incubator for eggs "Zubka"

Incubator acquired in the store, you can improve the incubator to improve, to ensure more eggs in it. According to the instructions in the tray of such an incubator, you can put only 25 goose eggs. In order to make a change, you need to bend pliers to bend the gear edges of the metallic frame of the egg tray so that it began to come into contact with the frame. In such an enhanced with his own hands, the egg incubator can be fitted at 5-6 goose eggs more than the instruction involves.

For some amateur poultry farms, it is impractical to use large and expensive industrial production incubators, designed for mass cultivation of chickens.

For a small farm in the breeding of young poultry young birds, incubators made independently from various remedies. There is an extensive selection of such structures made from a wide variety of materials.

But before making the incubator with your own hands, you need to know what requirements for it are presented, as well as what conditions should be respected in the homemade incubator in order to be as little as possible young losses.

Requirements for the incubator do it yourself: temperature and humidity

It is very important for artificially removing the birds to withstand conditions close to natural when the bird raises eggs.

Eggs before the start of incubation can be stored no more than 10 days. The temperature in the incubator made by its own hands should be 37.3-38.6 ° C around the egg at a distance of 1-2 cm. The optimal air humidity in the incubator is up to the inclination of 40-60%, and from the moment of the catch and over the output. - 80%.

Only before the sample of the young humidity must be reduced. It is determined by the difference in temperature indicators on the "dry" and "wet" thermometer. On the latter, the temperature should reach 28.5-9 ° C, which will correspond to the relative humidity of air 55-60%.

During the output of chickens, the temperature on the "dry" thermometer should be 37.2 ° C, and on the "wet" - 33-34 ° C, this will correspond to the relative humidity of the air in 78-90%.

It is desirable that forced ventilation is used in the home incubator, since air movement at a speed of 5-6 m / s helps to align the indicators on the humidity and air temperature in the incubator.

Place eggs on the trays in the incubator follows the vertically sharp tip down. In this case, the trays will need to be tilted alternately left and right at an angle of 45 °. Eggs of ducks and geese can be rotated 90 °. You can place eggs on the trays horizontally, then when moving, they will need to roll at an angle of 180 ° from the initial position. Turn the eggs is preferably 1 time per hour, at least, at least 3 times a day. Just before notch, i.e. 2-4 days before the output, the eggs no longer need to turn over.

When incubating duck and goose eggs, it is necessary for half the incubation period to use combination cooling: air for 20-30 minutes, as well as irrigating water with mangartee-acid potassium so that the solution was weak pink.

At any stage of incubation, the under-haze, which slows down the growth and development of the embryos is unacceptable. If the protein is used worse, as a result, many germs die already before hatching, and other outputs are delayed. In the majority of chickens hatched in such conditions (or duck) will be increased by the stomach and the umbilical cord will remain unemployed.

Overheating of eggs is also undesirable. If he was in the first 2 days of incubation, then the hatched chicks will be observed the ugliness of the head, eye and beak, and the conclusion will begin ahead of time. If the overheating was in the incubator in the 3-5th days, then the embryo has deformations of the heart, stomach and liver, as well as the non-examination of the abdominal cavity walls (ectopia).

In addition, even short-term strong overheating can cause the firing of the embryo to the supreme shells, hemorrhage in the skin, liver, kidneys, a heart, a yellow bag and a brain, and the position of the embryo will be abandoned - head in yolk. Long overheating in the second half of incubation can lead to the early motion of the embryo in the air chamber, as well as the protein will not be used. There may be a lot of dead chicks that proceed with the shell, but and not drawn yolk embryos. Chicks may have neck swelling and increasing the yolk bag, intestines, heart and kidneys.

Excessive humidity in the incubator often causes a lag in development, poor use of protein, increased mortality in the middle of incubation, as well as before hatching, etc. Insufficient moisture is capable of leading to hemorrhages, sucking shells will be dry and durable, the young will be small, dry and with adhesive Pieces of shell. Low humidity is especially dangerous during the output period, when 80-82% of air humidity are required.

Different eggs have their own incubation period. For example, for eggs of meat chic chickens, it is 21 days and 8 hours, the beginning of the noise (with normal incubation mode) should be 19 days and 12 hours after bookmarking into an incubator, and the output start - after 20 days, the mass hatch occurs in 20 days and 12 hours.

Production of the incubator with their own hands from plywood (with video)

The simplest homemade incubator for eliminating chicken chicks and quail is a small-sized box with a size of 49 x 48 x 38 cm, made of plywood. This incubator is designed to accommodate 90 chicken eggs.

The thickness of the plywood walls ideally is 3 cm. They are collected in two layers, and the space between them needs to be filled with felt or dry plaster. Instead of plywood sheets, you can use the boards of the corresponding thickness.

Before making a plywood incubator at home, prepare the material for its finishing. From the inside of the wall of the incubator, leaf asbestos should be seen, and from above - white tin. Such insulation is made to the planks on which the tray with eggs will lie. Next, in the walls of the incubator throughout the perimeter, it is necessary to drill 16 holes with a diameter of 2 cm (i.e., 4 in each wall).

The height of the openings from the first bottom bottom is 26 cm. The same holes are required in the first lower day. Their diameter is 2.5 cm, the distance from the walls is 8-10 cm.

In order to make an incubator for eggs from plywood, to the lower bottom of the incubator close to the side walls, you need to attach 2 planks at an altitude of 11.5 cm from the bottom and a thickness of 1.5-2 cm. They are needed to install a tray with eggs.

The second bottom of the incubator is made from a sheet of plywood with a thickness of 6-8 mm. In the middle of this bottom, a hole with a diameter of 14 cm is performed. This bottom is laid out on bars (2.5 cm thick), laid throughout the perimeter of the lower bottom. The second bottom should be at a distance of 3-3.5 cm from the first.

Due to the large number of holes, it will be possible to adjust the intensity of the ventilation, plugging them (in the walls or days) corks.

The front wall need to be equipped with a 8 cm height, placing it at a distance from the bottom bottom 20 cm.

Watch the video "Production of the incubator with your own hands" to better understand the process technology:

Heater for the homemade incubator with his own hands (with photo)

As a heater for the incubator of this type, it is possible to use electrospirals from iron with a capacity of 350-400 W. For the manufacture of the heater for the incubator, it will take six spirals connected to each other sequentially. Electrospirals need to be placed in ceramic isolation. Next, it is necessary to take a baking tray of a white tinsel size of 48 x 47 cm, to put a sheet of asbestos or asbestos tissue on it, and to put the helix on top.

The remaining free space between the spirals and walls of the anti is to fill asbestos (in the form of powder or wool). From above, the helix should be covered with asbestos sheet. The edges of the anti need to be beaten inside, pressing asbestos to the spiral. Next, the ends of the spirals must be attached to the terminals to the cord with a fork for inclusion in the network. The finished heater is placed on aluminum coats (15 x 15 mm), which must be tightly attached to the walls of the incubator at a height of 26 cm from the first bottom. It is advisable to put the heating ground under the edges, i.e. on the squares, the strips of asbestos tissue.

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As can be seen in the photo, in the home-made incubator, electrollamps can be used as a backup heating, cutting down the holes in two opposite walls.

In the second day, a bath with water with a size of 47 x 43 x 4 cm is installed. It is better to use an aluminum bath. In the middle of the bath, you need to drill a round hole with a diameter of 13 cm. To do this, first should be cut in the bath with a hole 5-6 cm, and then collapse it up to the formation of a neck with a height of 3-4 cm.

Next, the neck of the bath must be put in burlap. Its edges will be omitted in water, so the burlap will remain wet. The air entering the incubator through the first bottom holes will pass through this burlap, and moisturize, entering the inside of the structure with moisture pairs. Periodically burlap it is recommended to replace on clean. Water in the bath also needs to be changed 2 times a week. Under the bath it is required to put a cloth or flannel. Sometimes they can close the opening of the second bottom to adjust the flow of cold air into the incubator.

For the tray, you first need to make a frame of plywood with a thickness of 1 mm (you can also use solid wood). The dimensions of the tray are 48 x 48 x 2.5 cm. The bottom of the tray is made of a metal mesh with cells of 5 × 5 mm or 19 × 10 mm. Further, it is necessary to put the flannel in 1-2 rows to put the flannel, after which the eggs in a horizontal position are laid on this litter. In the first days of incubation, the tray should be raised into the zone of the best heating, laying under the edges of the bars of 3 x 1.5 cm. Then, as the embryos develop, the tray with eggs must be lowered these bars.

Also in the first days of incubation should be opened by 1-2 holes in the bottom of the box and the walls of the incubator for ventilation. Then, when the embryos begin to highlight heat, all holes can be opened.

The control thermometer must be put right on the eggs. At this level, the air temperature should be in the first week of the output of 40 ° C, in the second - 39 ° C, to the third - 38 ° C, and when hatching chicks - 36-37 ° C. Turn the eggs 4-8 times a day. Checking in the incubation period the state of eggs, they need to be moved from the middle to the edges. For accurate control, it is recommended from one side of each egg to put the cross with a simple pencil.

Design of homemade incubator for eggs with fan

Before making a self-made incubator with a fan, you need to make a body from chipboard. Inside the wall of the case, it is required to volatile with galvanized hardware, so that the hermetic structure is as a result, capable of keeping warm without additional insulation.

To maintain normal humidity inside the homemade incubator for eggs, a galvanized iron tray is put. The two opposite walls of this "facility" should be made a little inclined so that moisture can be adjusted: if you pour more water in such a tray, with a large surface of evaporation there will be higher humidity.

The fan for the incubator that should be driven by a three-phase motor (better than 840 rpm), including "star".

This engine should be strengthened outside the incubator on a special stand.

To check the uniformity of the ventilation, you need to hinder the threads in different places of the incubator (from above, bottom, in the middle and at the side walls). If they deviate equally - it means that the ventilation is uniform.

Incubator with automatic twist of eggs and a swivel mechanism

You can independently make an incubator with an automatic twist of eggs, for this you first need to make trays for eggs from a welded grid with cells 6 × 2 cm. The height of the trays should be 4 cm. For eggs, a mesh with cells is required before the output is 1.5 x 1 , 5 cm, and the height of the side should be 8 cm.

The mechanism of rotation of eggs in the incubator must "sway" on racks attached to the incubator body. The mount here should be very tough.

The rotary device for the incubator is driven by an electric motor with a worm gearbox (you should use a motor with a minimum power 250 W). Motor must be associated with a block that creates the slope of the trays when turning. This happens through a chain transmission with an asterisk.

If the rotation speed turns out to be too large, then the multivibrator can be added to the power circuit, then the trays will begin to bend gradually.

If something happens suddenly with the device, there will be no ability to automatically turn the eggs in the incubator, then the thermal sensors will be given a signal that overheating "threatens" eggs.

Automatically, in this case, windows cut on the rear and upper walls of the unit will open. They can be made of galvanized metal and consolidate so that they can rotate around the middle axis.

If the sensor also does not work for any reason, the window will open another sensor or make a call.

Production at home incubator for eggs from hive

Homemade incubators with their own hands can be made from those who came into disrepair of two-circular bees of hives.

To re-equip this subject, you need to cut through in the lower case of a two-circuit hive hole so that the egg tray can be inserted into it. The bottom of the tray should be tightened with a grid.

It contributes to better air circulation. Under the tray is a wide flat bank (for example, from under herring by 5 kg) with water.

In the manufacture of the upper body ceiling incubator also need to be tightened with a grid to provide the necessary air circulation. From above over the mesh, 40 W bulbs are mounted. You need to install two light bulbs on both sides. At the bottom of the hull, in the place where the bees tray used to be before, will now be performed natural ventilation.

Also for the manufacture of an incubator with your own hands you can use the acting hive. To do this, you only need to put a thick metal mesh on top of the frames, so that the bees could not get through its cells.

The construction of the incubator from the hive provides for the placement above the grid of the shopping replenishment or the piercing, where and will be in one row to lay eggs (about 50 pieces). From above, they must be kept in some canvas, to which the pillow with the insulation should be put. For such an incubator, additional heaters and ventilation devices are not required, because the bees will be able to "give" and the necessary heat, and humidity, and ventilation.

How to make at home incubator from bank

The incubator can be made even from a glass jar, and there are two options.

Option 1

A glass bank-based incubator device is designed to accommodate 36 chicken eggs. For the manufacture of this incubator for eggs, two 3-liter glass jars will be required, some corrugated cardboard, aluminum wire, and a small piece of thick plywood with a size of 32 x 32 cm (you can use chipboard). The main component of the incubator is a heat-regulator. It is just done on the basis of a glass jar. It needs more than half to fill with water and hermetically clog. In the closed space, air volume will help maintain a constant temperature in the incubator.

Also in water, it is necessary to load steel electrodes made of soft steel wire with a diameter of 6 mm or tin 1 mm thick and 10 mm width.

The electrodes in the design of this homemade incubator must be skipped through the lid so that the tightness of the bank is preserved. To do this, use electrical insulation. The lid should be sealed with a rubber gasket cut from a car or motorcycle chamber. Next, it is necessary to immerse a flexible polychlorvinyl tube, made of insulation, removed from an aluminum wire with a diameter of 4-5 mm. The second end of this tube must be placed in a 1-liter jar. It should be installed float (from a plastic bottle), fixed on the hinge. Float must be associated with moving contact, and under it must be a fixed contact.

Homemade electrodes will heat the water in the bank to 50 ° C. At the same time, the formed couple will begin to put pressure on the water and displacing some part of it, which will come on the tube to another jar with a float. The float will rise, the contacts will start opening and the heating will stop. Then, when the heat-regulator is gradually cooling, the water from the jar with a float will start returning back, and the contacts will be closed. Such a repeating cycle will allow smoothly to increase and lower the temperature, holding it at the desired level. In order not to take place in the operation of the heat regulator, it is necessary 2 times a day (for example, in the morning and in the evening) to clean the contacts, after turning off the device from the network.

Eggs in this incubator must be placed around the jar in three tiers of 12 pieces in each. Things under eggs can be made of aluminum wire with a diameter of 2-2.5 mm. The gap between adjacent wires should be calculated so that the hatching chicken could not touch the hot jar, but did not fall down. It is desirable that the eggs of the upper tier are located at a distance of 6-7 mm from the glass of cans, medium - 8-9 mm, and the bottom - 5 mm. The height of the racks in the trays should be 20 cm, and the distance between the shelves of the tiers - 5 cm. Due to the fact that trays are made of soft aluminum wire, you can easily achieve any shape, slightly fading the wires in the right place.

After that, the entire design must be placed in the box made of corrugated cardboard in one layer. The incubator must be installed on a wooden base.

To maintain air humidity in the incubator at the required level, you should use a ring-shaped trench with water. For its manufacture, you can apply an end disk from the KAMAZ car air filter, etc. To spare the future tray, you need to gently heat the filter end. You can also make it possible to make such a tray for water from individual small tin or plastic jars with a height of 10-15 mm, enhancing them into the ring with each other around the can.

In the case of long-term power outage, this incubator can still be used. To do this, you must first remove the cover with the electrodes, merge some of the water and add boiling water, then closer to the can with a lid again and to bite on top of a few layers of fabric. Such a procedure must be repeated several times (every 2.5-3 hours) to maintain the air temperature in the incubator at the proper level. As practice shows, this method works well even when an emergency shutdown of electricity is 16 hours.

Option 2.

In this embodiment, the cover of the incubator is used with their own hands for the can, in which the membrane should be trapped in addition to the sealing gasket.

The latter can be cut from a motorcycle or fine car rubber. This membrane, "inflave" under the pressure of the steam, will periodically erode and close contacts.

On the lid itself there should also be an exhaust valve, with which it can be installed the desired temperature. When the heat regulator works in automatic mode, the valve must be tightly closed.

Instead of a 3-liter bank, you can use a 10-liter glass jar for an incubator, having eggs on it four tiers of 17 pieces in each.