How to build a simple chicken incubator please answer 10 points best answer?
Hi Chaze, the materials you have are not good beginning for an incubator. Look, metal, any kind of metal is a good conductor of electricity. Your goal is to keep the temperature inside the incubator as stable as possible. If the eggs suffer severe changes in temperature, the chick inside will die (slow cooked or cold). By severe, for most common eggs like chickens, quails or ducks, I mean 6 or 7 degrees Fahrenheit is already a lot and you are risking your chick’s life. Plastic is not a good insulator either, so you will meet with the same problem. If you want to build a home made incubator I propose you begin with insulation material. White Styrofoam works fine and is pretty cheap. What I did with good results was to purchase a cooler and then I modified it (basically inserting the bulb and a dish of water and a thermometer). You can get second hand coolers almost anywhere. If you live in the U.S. you could also acquire a Styrofoam cooler. They are sold in many places and very, very in
