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date: 2025-05-07T08:16:16.823+01:00
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name: Building A DIY Chicken Incubator
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name: Lewin Day
updated: May 6, 2025
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<p>If you want to keep eggs warm to hatch, youll need an incubator. You could buy one off the shelf, but theyre not so complex — just a nicely-controlled warm box you could easily whip up yourself. As it turns out, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfRLMU6guQQ" target="_blank">thats precisely what [RCLifeOn] did.&nbsp;</a></p>
<p>The incubator is built out of wooden panels screwed together to make a simple box. The frame of the front door is also wood, but it features 3D printed hinges and handles, because thats the easiest way to make hardware <a href="https://hackaday.com/2019/11/14/5-kilowatts-in-a-3d-printed-jet-boat/">when youre a printing wizard like [RCLifeOn].</a></p>
<p>The box is fitted with controls for humidity and temperature to ensure the best possible conditions for hatching chicken eggs inside. As you might have guessed, a heated bed from a 3D printer was used to control the temperature inside. As for humidity, a sensor tracks the conditions in the box, and triggers an ultrasonic mister to increase the level as necessary. Theres also a little motion introduced via a moving platform run by a motor and some step-down gearing, which apparently aids in the hatching process.</p>
<p>[RCLifeOn] calls it “a machine that creates life,” and that honestly sounds about fair. <a href="https://hackaday.com/2016/03/28/start-your-poultry-brood-with-this-diy-egg-incubator/">Weve seen similar projects along these lines before, too.</a></p>
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<p><iframe title="I Built a Machine That Creates Life" width="800" height="450" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jfRLMU6guQQ?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>
<p>[Thanks to Chris Muncy for the tip!]</p>
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If you want to keep eggs warm to hatch, youll need an incubator. You could buy one off the shelf, but theyre not so complex — just a nicely-controlled warm box you could easily whip up yourself. As it turns out, thats precisely what [RCLifeOn] did. 
The incubator is built out of wooden panels screwed together to make a simple box. The frame of the front door is also wood, but it features 3D printed hinges and handles, because thats the easiest way to make hardware when youre a printing wizard like [RCLifeOn].
The box is fitted with controls for humidity and temperature to ensure the best possible conditions for hatching chicken eggs inside. As you might have guessed, a heated bed from a 3D printer was used to control the temperature inside. As for humidity, a sensor tracks the conditions in the box, and triggers an ultrasonic mister to increase the level as necessary. Theres also a little motion introduced via a moving platform run by a motor and some step-down gearing, which apparently aids in the hatching process.
[RCLifeOn] calls it “a machine that creates life,” and that honestly sounds about fair. Weve seen similar projects along these lines before, too.
[Thanks to Chris Muncy for the tip!]
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