Homemade Incubators ?

[Chickens4Me]

Has anyone made a homemade Incubator if so how and with what success ?
Pictures if possible please

[lavender lou]

my OH made a homemade incubator and we had lots of success from it.

what he used was a old hamster cage that was quite large, a ecostat that contained a heating element and thermostat and you can buy these kits from ebay.
the kit that you can buy from ebay contains instructions on how to make an homemade incubator.

the incubator that we use at present is an wine cooler that you see in a pubs. (or a small beer fridge) and that works great we hatched some ducks from it last summer.

and we are about to get some marsh daisy eggs and try those....

[MaureenHall]

Have a look at this on the River Cottage forum River Cottage Community - Make your own incubator it looks complicated (to me!) and I think the ones you can get from Ebay that Lynda66 recommended look really good, don't think you could make one any cheaper

[Hilary B]

About 10 years ago I bought a 'kit' consisting of a thermostatically controlled heating element, and the instructions. The element was a flexible loop. I also got hold of one of those polystyrene boxes some farm-shops use for posting chilled meat. In the box I put a 'shelf' of weldmesh half-way up (removeable) and suspended the heaterloop above it, all round the inside, about 2 inches in and 2 inches above the shelf. I cut a hole in the lid and covered the hole (both sides) with clear plastic sheet (double glazing<g>) Ventilation holes in the lower part of the box, on 2 opposite sides, but not directly opposite each other, and when there were eggs in, a small pot of water in the base (topped up by one of those indoor watering cans as necessary).
Over the next couple of years I hatched a few dozen turkeys in it, and a handful of chooks. Hatchrate about 80% for chooks, 70% for turkeys.
Unfortunately I can't remember where I got the kit from, but the person who gave me the polystyrene box had used one made the same way for hatching reptiles, so maybe that would be a place to look? It was about a quarter the price of a similar sized 'made' one at the time.