I remade my styrofoam incubator, using assorted incubator parts. the quail eggs in it are to hatch next Monday and the ducks I only put in yesterday, so it'll be a while for them. I'm comparing my home made to my factory model now(my Home Made actually holds better temps, as I forgot to properly close the lid and temps were still perfect).
They both have GQF thermostats, but one has a Little Giant heating element in it. The other is a standard, old 2003 forced air hovabator I had to do a lot of maintenance to clean it up, and it was SO worth it! I had a great hatch in it before when I borrowed it from the previous owner.
I figured you might have wanted an updated picture of my home made incubator.
The quail eggs on the far right were in the home made incubator, but I decided to switcheroo with the ducks. I was kinda running out of space here... Lolz...
And they both fit on the (at one time) the dresser drawer incubator (it's just a dresser once more)!
They rarely come on (since it's always 90+ degrees here in sunny, humid florida) and save a LOT more enery than my other ones did, since they shut on and off. They're on for probably 30 or so seconds per every five or so minutes(if your a stickler for energy).
These two DO work, and I expect at least an 80% hatch rate from the 60+ button quail eggs due.
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