How to Make a Simple Egg Incubator

How to Make a Simple Egg Incubator. Egg incubators can indeed be made yourself with simple ingredients, although now egg incubators have been created and sold. 

The egg incubator is used to help chicken breeders to hatch ready-to-hatch chicken eggs with minimal capital without having to buy a modern, expensive egg incubator.

How to Make a Simple Egg Incubator

The price of hatching machines produced by the company is relatively expensive and sometimes we find it difficult to find the seller's shop. Those of us in rural areas can take advantage of waste materials that are no longer used.

With an egg incubator, of course, it will be easier for chicken breeders to hatch large amounts of chicken eggs. So that it can reduce the occurrence of chicken eggs that do not become chickens because of the limitations of the hen. Of course, you as a chicken farmer will have many chicks that can be developed into adult chickens.

With the existence of an egg incubator, the chicken farm will certainly be more advanced and developed. In creating new chickens that are ready to develop into adult chickens that are ready to be slaughtered.

Then how do you make a simple homemade egg incubator?

For those of you who want to experiment, hatch chicken eggs with your own homemade tools. So the following will explain how or the manufacturing process.

1. How to Make an Egg Incubator From a Bucket

I will explain how to make your own chicken egg incubator in a simple way and it doesn't have to cost a lot. simple egg incubator made of simple material. Check out the following.

Materials needed to make an egg incubator from a used bucket:

• Rice to taste.
• Plastic to taste.
• Bucket.
• 5 watt lamp.

The process of making an egg incubator from a used bucket:

1. Fill the bucket with enough rice
2. Then place the eggs on the rice to keep the eggs in position and adjust the distance between the lamp and the eggs to 5 cm.
3. Cover the bucket tightly with plastic, there is only a press hole in the light cable.
4. Turn on the lights 24 hours. Even though there was a power cut it didn't really matter, except that 1 day of blackout had an effect on the eggs.
5. During the incubation process, the eggs don't need to be turned back and forth, it's just like that.
6. Then please wait 21 days for the eggs to hatch.
7. If there are eggs that have hatched, open the plastic immediately, even though there are eggs that have not hatched, the eggs will hatch.

2. How to Make Egg Hatching Tool From Cardboard

Besides, using a bucket, we can also make egg hatching tools out of cardboard. Here's how to make it.

Materials and tools used:

• Cardboard type cardboard box.
• Wood or bamboo
• Thermostat and Thermometer
• Cable
• Light
• Electric plugs
• Nail
• Zinc trays
• Rope

How to Make Hatching Tools:

1. The shape of the cardboard is according to the construction of the incubator. Give wood or bamboo as a frame to make it sturdy.
2. Make holes in the left and right of the cardboard. This hole is used to clamp the lamp.
3. Punch a hole in the top of the cardboard for ventilation. Approx Size 5 cm X 10 cm.
4. Assemble the thermostat with the lampholder.
5. Make egg racks with bamboo. If you can't, just use an egg tray
6. Punch a hole in the front for attaching the sight glass.
7. After all the circuits are finished and the plugs are attached to the mains, all the lights must be on
8. Enter a thermometer to find out the temperature inside. Remember different types of eggs require different hatching temperatures. Duck eggs will be different from chicken eggs