How to: Cabinet Incubator - 240 quail egg incubator
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- How to build an inexpensive Foamboard Cabinet Incubator. For just over $75 you can build this incubator capable of holding 240 quail eggs or 82 chicken eggs. Check links below for parts I used for this build. Its tested and proven, I've been running this incubator 24/7 for several months and hatched 1000's of eggs.
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Hi Terry- I built it just like you showed to. I love it! My original incubator is a $100 forced air, but it's a piece of junk compared to this one. I appreciate your manner and way of explaining things in your videos. You have a great, no airs, down to Earth way of conducting yourself that is very enjoyable and easy to learn from. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. You are helping a lot of people selflessly, and I do appreciate it.
Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed the video and the incubator. I appreciate all you guys, without you there would be no channel :)
@@CoturnixCorner Just had my first hatch with this incubator. Previously my incubator gave me low, low hatch rates. Tonight I got 46 out of 63 set, and some of those are questionable fertility. May still have some more tomorrow morning. I'm really excited to have over 70%. Thanks again-
@@jklstewart Congrats on the better hatch rates! I'm glad you found our build videos useful. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome !!!!
@@jklstewarthow did you check humidity
I would like to know how to make the hatching boxes that go in the incubator.
Thanks
Hi Terry, can you give me the measurements of the hatching boxes you use with this incubator. By the way, great incubator bro, you are awesome.
Great video. So many you tubers do nothing but ramble incoherently and use click bait titles to trick ppl to watch their videos, yours was on point, detailed and valuable. Great job.
Thanks for stopping by the channel. If you have any questions or comments about this incubator or building process, please post your comments down below. Hope you enjoyed the video!
Nice build! Would this work say in an unheated garage where the temps get below freezing?
@@stevenmwarehimee I really can't say what the lowest external temperatures are that the heating elements could keep up with. As built they would probably be on continuously and still not reach incubation temperatures. I would imagine if you insulated the cabinet enough it could be made to be used in lower temperatures.
I need a temoster please how do I get it?
@around the block There is a complete list of all materials needed in the description, there is also a link to the cut list. If you order from the links they are shipped from amazon, not china.
@@akentiabraham8907 There are links in the description to all materials and parts from Amazon.
I want to thank you for showing how to build an incubator, I hatch Bob white quail back in the 60s and had a $3000.00 forced air incubator and was lucky to get over 55% hatch rate. I built my incubator a little bigger and put a motor in it to turn the eggs 6 times a day. Well I got 50 Bob white eggs and put them in the incubator and on the last of the 20 day put them in the hatcher I built the same way you did your incubator. Back in the 60s the quail would start hatching around the first of the 23rd day and go thru the 25th day. Now I was hatching around 140 eggs a week. The quail this time started pipping the shell on the last hour of the 22nd day. The start of the 23 day they were all piping a little dent on their eggs , but weren't hatching. when the 23rd day was over not a one had started to pip around the egg to hatch. Well on the 24th day, 3 hours and 9 minutes into it, I noticed one had finally started to peck around the top of the shell to hatch. Now these are shipped eggs thru the mail- 50 of them and one was crack. Well after the one came out, 2 hours later 35 had hatch and were out. 7 hours after these hatched I had a total of 43 had hatched! next morning I got up and three of the six left had hatch.! This is the best hatch rate I have ever had and using your instruction on the incubator and the equipment to get has really help me get a better incubator than I could of brought and a hatcher too! I got a 92% hatch rate with shipped eggs. Thanks a lot for putting this video on here and the instruction you provided! Keep up the good work! Thanks again!
How did you turn the eggs?
Lol just thinking about when i use my drill infront of my chickens. My rooster hates it with a passion. He'll attack me just for holding it
What a great teacher you are and a fine craftsman as well. Thanks for your detailed instructions and great video for us! Greg from Calif.
How do you wire those fans up? I ordered the two you referenced. You didn’t cover the wiring up. I noticed the power 12 volt power outlet has a - and +. The fan wire has 3 wire going to a small block. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks Terry for your knowledge in this!
Light bulbs can be so confusing for some people. When you 60 watt light bulbs. Yours are ECO which are 43 watt usable wattage which I’m glad I noticed which would be different heat than the old standard incandescent bulb. Such a great build. Thanks so much. I will be so the same build for chicken eggs.
Terry, have you considered a blog or website to go along with your videos? A written site with all these cut measurements would be helpful.
Terry, subscribed to your channel a few weeks ago. As of today I’ve built your three tier cage set up and also I just finished the incubator build. All function as they should and I’m happy I followed your exact instructions! Thanks a lot!
I’m more impressed with your video quality. Multiple cameras, lav mic, smooth editing
What wattage of light bulbs do you use? Thanks for making a great build video!
Just a little sidenote when you’re holding up the piece that holds the fan inside with the 45° cuts, you say 8 1/2 inches wide on the wrong side. It’s actually 8 1/2 inches wide on the opposite side from the one you were holding toward the camera.
What is sad is that if you look now the egg turner alone is the price of the entire build when done originally. Cool build, wish I started with quail a couple years ago!
Scrap the 12v wall transformer, get ASIN: B07MZ4RFSS, off of amazon. It's a 15w 1.25amp waterproof L.E.D. Driver. I use one to run three fans, and it works great! Can be installed inside out of view, free up an outlet, and cutdown on wires hanging around! I'm just starting out with quail, and want to thank you for all your helpful videos!
Excellent tutorial! Thanks for all of the content you put out. Now that you've been using this incubator, how many cycles have you run through it so far, and is there anything you would change if you were building one from scratch now?
He moved the lights away from the fans so changing bulb wouldn't hurt fingers in fan.
Really enjoyed this I want to try it here soon
Good luck with your build!
Built one and have been using it for months! Works better then a $800 unit!
Congrats!
Did you make an updated version with 120V fans and no lightbulbs? Video link? 5:38
How many ventilation holes and what size? Are they open all the time? Do you have a video showing how you made your egg turner?
Did you ever find an answer to this? I’m not even sure how much ventilation the store bought ones have?
good night my friend!! Is your incubator made of styrofoam? What is the voltage of the lamps? you are very good!! Brazil embraces your talent! thanks
This is wonderful!
I remember being 10 years old and wanting to help my dad with our homestead so I built my own egg incubator out of scrap wood, insulation foam and a small office fan.
The "door" was a piece of insulation foam longer than what was needed cause of the holes I cut into it to control the temperature. My only design flaw was my lamp and sadly the bulb died when my eggs were 13 days into the incubator so it was a sad day for me, but my parents were still impressed.
I'm 26 now, only lived on that homestead for 3 years before we moved back to new york, and now as an adult living on my own for a decade now I was considering quail over chickens as a starter poultry due to the restaurants near me.
How about a quick video, showing how you build your hatching boxes? 💪
I will add that to the list of upcoming videos, thanks for the comment.
Hi Terry, I'm about to build your incubator, except for chickens. I'm hoping the measurements will work out. I'm planning to use an egg turner from an old styrofoam incubator that I have on hand. My question is about the holes for ventilation that you mentioned at the end. How big and how many? Thanks for the information. Your video was well made.
thanks for this question! I was just about to ask the same thing but figured I would scroll first! lol I bought a 120V automatic egg turner that holds 56 eggs. I am going to build this same design, but will build the dimensions to accommodate the size of my turner! Have fun and good luck!
Job well done Terry, I'm building one this week , your video has made what could have been a nightmare into a sweet dream thank you Terry I do have just one question how big and how many should I make the ventilation holes
Have you considered using 12V globes to reduce running costs? I am thinking off-grid with a solar panel and battery. also a link to the hatching boxes would be very useful.
I built the cabinet incubator and was having problems keeping humidity up, I live in a desert, with smaller plastic water tray so I switched to the aluminum ones from dollar tree, this morning I when in and found a huge puddle of water. In only 5 days electrolysis has eaten many holes in the water tray. I am wondering about the light sockets and how it is affecting the eggs.
Just passing that along for others to keep an eye out for.
Can this incubator hatches other types of eggs example turkey, duck, chicken. or just for quail eggs?
Sure, you can hatch any kind of eggs in this incubator. The rails would need to be changed to fit the size egg, but otherwise it would work just fine. Thanks for commenting!
I love your design! What do you do about the humidity?
Something I have found when working with this foam building boats is that barbecue skewers work perfectly to essentially nail the pieces together during the drying process. I use none expanding spray foam as a glue it holds pretty good as long as it’s not structural and drys quickly
Thank you for sharing good technique, specially the air chennel idea for perfect air circulation. I just wonder how the oxygen level can be maintained in incubator ?
Thanks for your comment! There are ventilation holes drilled in the top and on both sides of the incubator. I drill two 1/2" holes on the top and two on each side. One near the top and the other about midway. Hope this helps.
Did you build the hatching boxes too? Would love to see a video of the entire process including the hatching boxes and egg trays etc.
thnak you for sharing your amazing video
Thank you for being part of the channel!
I just built this and used an Inkbird ITV-106VL and after auto-tune the PID it is holding a steady 99.7 with just +/-0.15 degree fluctuation, It works great Terry! thanks for sharing the build.
What is your hatch rate? Did you make any changes?
@@TheRainHarvester my hatch rate was in the low 90s to high 70s with the quail, 80+ with chicken eggs and 65% with duck eggs
The only part I need to know more about is how to wire the fans to the 12v plug....next video?
I just did this project. If anybody is wondering, the black wires should be negative and the yellow positive. This can very from fan to fan so do not be afraid to experiment. Black should always be negative. So just start plugging wires till the fan goes round if you cannot find it. If your fan flow is running the wrong way, you can swap the wires and the fan will flow the other way. This should result in two fans, connected to a single plug that can be plugged in to the wall. I ordered the plug from the link here, however, the fan source was out and I had to purchase different fans than what the link was, however they show as the same exact fans he had linked. So hopefully this still helps others! The plug had some holes that you could feed wires in to, very easy! I resulted in three total plugs from this device at the end, however. Had I realized this, I would have purchased an outlet inside of the device so I can plug the turner and fans in from the inside! Oh well, a "next time" project once this gets going
If you order the 12 volt plug that he reccomend just separate the positive and negative wires in the 2 separate screw ends, its very forgiving, mine has been running for a week
I can't download the cut list in the description. Can someone send it to me?
Love these incubators! Thank you for the amazing how to video! My husband built two of these a couple years ago and we've been using them every year. We've come across a problem finding Incandescent light bulbs now though and was wondering what kind of bulbs you recommend using for the best results? Thank you!
I'm using 75 or 100 watt Halogen's from Walmart.
@@CoturnixCorner Thank you so much for the reply.
Hi Terry, may I know if the 240 quails eggs incubator you built can be scaled up into a commercial chicken eggs one? Thank you.
We are currently making one of these ,can't wait to see how it turns out ! Thank you Terry
Good luck with the build.
Hi Nikki.
Did you get the opportunity to build this style of incubator and if so how has it worked for you?
very well done and you are very good teacher i saved your show and material list and equipment , thank you
May I suggest that you add a plastic junction box to the top for all the wire connections!!
What an excellent channel!
Great video Terry ! Clear and detailed. I like this design, well thought out. I may build one of these at some point and I will definitely use your video as a guide. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
On the artic fans they come with a 3 wire into a mulex plug. How do you wire it like you have it
The center wire is the hot wire and one of the outside wires is the negative. The remaining wire is unused, it is the speed control wire. Hope this helps.
Thank you for the tutorial it was great.
Thank you so much. Your directions are so complete. Very happy I found your channel.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with use. I am just starting to put together a quail Hatcher. It’s all new to me. Thanks.
good man so much junk incubators for sale out there and they want a lot of money for them too. im very happy to see you not even trying to make Money selling stuff but rather showing people how they can own a really good quality Unit and all for much less then the junk that wastes half of the eggs and energy
Hello! How do we use it? How do we make the little shelves inside? Does the humidity matter? Thank you!
Are you talking about the hatching trays? If so, they are just sized to fit and are 3" tall.
I just finished building my incubator last week. Eggs arrived from Myshire today and will be incubating them tomorrow. Can't wait to see the new babies.
Good luck on the new hatch!
So how does the fans work they just run 24/7 I'm guessing? How many vent holes? What are the vent hole for just add oxygen?
Yes, the fans run constantly. The vent holes provide fresh air and can be used to regulate humidity by covering or opening the vents.
Thanks for getting back to me. I've seen 1,000 of videos on TH-cam but your video's are very informative and I thank you. I'm really wanting to start growing out some birds. Mostly for eating an eggs. I want to release an bunch of bonwhites here in Tennessee. So I'm needing to learn the process an I thank you for your video's
I hope Im not repeating a question but I scrolled down and didn't see anyone ask.. Could you make it 36" tall?
Absolutely, you may have to adjust the bulb size to accommodate for the extra space. Maybe try a 75 watt bulb instead of the 60’s. Good luck!
Hey Terry. Are the fans supposed to just run constantly since they aren’t wired the the temperature controller?
thank u for the info
A wonderful teacher.
What are the dimensions of the actual egg trays? And what material did you use for those?
Can I use a 40 watt incandescent lightbulbs. I cant find any 60 watt incandescent bulbs
You can use 40 watt bulbs, but it might take longer to reach incubation temperatures. 60 watt is recommended.
What if the fan fails or the power supply of the fan.Would the light bulbs create too much heat and potentially create a fire hazard?
Even without the fans the regulator won't allow it to get hot enough to burn the foam which is ASTM E119 Fire Resistance Rated.
@@CoturnixCorner thanks for your reply! I build two incubators after watching your video. They worked great but I once accidentally unplugged the 12v power supply for the fans and started to melt some of the foam board. I just used regular ridge foam board and can’t see a fire rating on it. I either use a current sensor relay which would shut the bulbs off in case there is no current running through the fan wires, using a heat shield around the bulbs to protect the foam from heat or install a ceramic heating element also with a heat shield.
Hey CC, would like to say that I have used your how-to videos to get my first flock going. I purchased chicks after spending about two weeks building one of your cage techs, and then made a second as a layer cage. Current capacity 15 of 108 birds!
The auto zone guys now don't really like me, as I keep buying all their oil trays in stock (they explained that they only keep 3 oil trays in stock at a time. Oh well!)
I just used this tech to get my incubator going. However, the recommended egg turner will not fit on the second shelf without some modification. Oh well, the thing works great and saved me about $900!
Do those guys a favor and call the day before and they can get those in
This is great, thank you! I'm about to start my build. Quick question tho - how do you control humidity with this design?
Live in Florida
Different sized pans of water. Maybe float small sheets of Styrofoam on the water to reduce humidity. Or add sponges /rags , sticking out of water, to increase.
Hi Terry I got myself an egg timer motor. I was going to make my own egg turner. But the problem is it is 220v I need 110v How do I use it. What do I get for it to make it work? Thanks
How you control the humidity level
Thanks so much for your tutorial on the incubator build, can’t wait to build one myself!
The link to the materials and cut lost won't load. Is there any other way to get this? I also cannot find it on the website either all I can find is a link to this video.
I've been interested in quail and your videos make me feel like it is do-able for a novice like me
Thank you
I just built one. Looks like it is going to work out great. Thank you for the help.
What is your hatch rate? Any changes to design?
You are a teacher
Good job sir I made one styrofoam incubator for my chicken eggs and hatched successfully but i personally like your twin fans idea thank you very much for your advice
Thanks for the comment!
Thank you for sharing. What is the hatch ratio on this the same as store bought incubators? I like what you did it’s budget friendly and the savings can go into more or different eggs cool.Thanks for sharing.
I get 80 - 90% hatch rates on my eggs. Once you get the incubator dialed in it works as well or better than commercial models.
Do you use this incubator for lock down too or transfer them to another incubator
I can use it for either, lockdown or incubation. If I have a second batch going in I will move the eggs to the lockdown box, if not, I just hatch them out in the incubator.
Why do you have the eggTurner and the quail rail confused
do u still use this build>?
Great build. Watch the DC polarity of the 12v fans. Switching the cables if the power supply may change the spin direction of the fans or they won't turn on at all.
They will just break. There is a small chip inside which does the magic :)
How you connect the fan
Thank you Terry!! I really hope you get your place in the history books. So much knowledge I'm learning from you. PS. you should make these into kits..LOL. The Terry box 20/20. 😀 I think that's what I'm going to call mine. Thanks again friend..
Thank you for the nice comment.
Mr Terry first like to say very good video. I’m thinking of building one and putting plywood on outside
How about a quick video, showing how you build your hatching boxes? 💪
sir which temperature ideal to incubator
99.5 degrees
I see this was 3 years ago do you still recommend this incubator or have you since moved on to something better the price is good just didn’t wanna spend the money to build it if it was gonna end up being a bad build in 2-3 months
I still use the first one I built on a regular basis. It has never failed me.
@@CoturnixCorner awesome! I’m currently waiting on the glue to dry and mine will be put into use!
Man, you are an awesome instructor. I love the detail tht you give. Fantastic job guy.
Thank you, glad you are enjoying the channel.
What a great channel. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks a lot for this free info.
thanks for the comment Henry!
Imma cheat, I get nice big and thick styrofoam coolers from my work :)
That'll work ...
Terry Hi, I m from India and seen almost all your vedios. vedios r great particularly this one . Your information is very useful & helpful for a number of unemployed youth to get livelihoods. I am also one such unemployed and run rickshaw pulling . As rickshow pulling hard and less income source, I study your vedios and develop my own incubator to augment my income with your help and by studying vedios and also taking your guidance.
Brother, I completed making of my incubator with following information I use 60W , two incandescent bulbs and two fan on one on each bulb. Temperature controller W 1209 from AMAZON, gives temp 37.5 .+0, - 0.5
Incubator body made from thremocol of 30mm thickness. Two small holes for air at bottom and small two holes FOR ESCAPE of hot gas at top.
I face a problem in my incubator that temperature and humidity do not rise to required level, if temperature rise the humidity go down and if humidity rise temperatures goes down. I achieved 37.5 degree centigrade and humidity 43 to 45 Rh% , by use of sponge and cotton cloth humidity rise to 60Rh% but temp dropped to 31 in HTC 2 digital temperature and humidity meter , Where as temperature module showed 37mini 37.5 maximum in centigrade
Temperature and Humidity relations is big problem. As without proper temperature and humidity hatching is impossible. I tried on 2 eggs and they got damaged.
Please guide where I go wrong in making incubator or in hatching process, as in achieving temperature and humidity.
And why the problem is arising .
Please guide and advise pl.
Thanks in advance
Hi Terry that is a brilliant video have just ordered my bits off amazon to build this incubator , a quick question if I may are the fans 12 volt , I have ordered 12 volt fans and a 220 volt ink bird controller , the fans obviously are wired seperately via a 12 volt transformer , thanks again for sharing your skill and knowhow , brilliant video regards Pete
Yes, the fans are 12 volt. Good luck with your build!
I have a W1219 Thermostat.
what should I set Temperature Controller setting
P0,P1,P2,P3,P4,P5,P6
I have seen 50 diffrent videos and all are diffrent
is there info on what each one means
so I can make a good choice to set it up.
what would you set it up at.???
thanks
What is the white stripe down the left side of the door?
It's a strip of wood to reinforce the door and to have have something to screw the hinges to.
Great video I may build this one cause I'm getting alot of mixed reviews on store bought incubators and don't want to just waste my money
If I'm building a 1 level (120 eggs) version, would you think one 60W bulb will suffice, i.e. will two bulbs be an overkill? Thanks!
Most likely, it will take some testing to get the combination right.
Maybe one 100w bulb? Just a suggestion
Hi thank you for the awesome video ☺️Curious how often you have to watch over the incubator during incubation? For example how often are you looking after humidity etc?
Just a little info. The video is great. But I just wanted to let you know that the T Five you were talking about being Temp. Set. That is not T5 that is TS which means T for temp, and S for set. SO that would be TS - Temp. Set. Not downing the video just figured it would help in making the next one. Thank you and keep on Keepin on.
Hi Terry, would a double pane viewing window be worth the extra cost of the plexiglass, perhaps frame the inner door cut out with wood and screw the Plexiglass panels into the wood, sandwiching the door panel with a 1/2" overlap on the inner/outer surface. Have you considered painting this beast vs manly pink ;) I look forward to speaking with you someday soon. Doc & Denise, Tully River Quail Reading, PA
So if you get the one from Lowe’s it’s green 🤣
your my new best friend
Great vid, can’t wait to build mine just like yours
Would more air flow cause more consistent temp thought the incubator? Also would it dry the air out more?
Hi! Thanks for the video! Can I hide the little giant egg turners and the hatching time lockdown trays? The lockdown tray dimensions are Unit: L 13.4" x W 11.2" x H 4.1" . Thank you.
Any thoughts on using 1.5" or 2" foam board? I know the dimensions here will need adjusted but my garage can get pretty chilly in the winters. It has not froze but gets to 40°ish all day long. Thought using the higher R rating may help hold temps better.
There was a guy on the Facebook group page who used the thicker foam successfully, and he did say the regulator doesn't kick the lights on as often. So I would think that it would probably work well in your situation.
Hey Terry how big should I make the vent holes in the side
And also can you show me how to build the trays for hatching chicken eggs