On Sunday, April 28, 2019 at 5:20:04 PM UTC-4, Paul wrote:


I somehow doubt in 2019, you have to design something like
that from scratch.

https://incubatorwarehouse.com/egg-i...g-turners.html

For power, you could use a couple Tesla Powerwalls or equivalent.

That wouldn't be economical as a heat source, but for keeping
other automation running, could last quite a while. It's basically
a giant-sized UPS.

I don't know what I'd use for heat. We have pellet-stoves here,
which have auger-driven fueling (auger puts pellets into the
stove as required). You still have to fill the bin with
pellets regularly to keep it fueled. Liquid fuels could be
too expensive, and natural gas is only practical if your city
has the plumbing for it. Where I live now has natural gas,
my old city does not.

Paul

I could not find a few years ago this site you reference. As I recall the only thing I found that was suitable was a unit that cost $1000 US, which for my experimental farm was too much (they also had a super cool chicken dressing and and feather plucking machine for about that much or more, which would have been nice if I went into business, as it turns out cleaning the chickens of their tiny feathers is the biggest hassle and bottleneck).

However, in the Philippines they have a duty tax that often nearly doubles the price unless a friend ships it to you, and it takes about a month or longer (two months is not uncommon), unless you use FedEx, which would also increase the price. The other day I sent some small electronics to PH and it cost $80 from the DC area to Manila.

The incubator I built was for several hundred eggs, actually a guy who raises fighting cock told me it was too big. It was just more convenient to buy the chicks, which were fine, though I'm not sure that the inoculated them for poultry disease or not.

As for natural gas, it's sold in bottles. Electricity is expensive in rural PH, about 3x the price in the USA.

Thanks,

RL