Since hatching season is rapidly approaching, I think now is the time to talk about incubating eggs and hatching chicks. Most people choose to incubate eggs that they purchased from a breeder to add a new breed to their flock, but many also choose to hatch eggs from their own flock. Obviously, the easiest way […]
Opening the Incubator After Lockdown: Should You Do It?
The three days before hatch day are typically known as “lockdown” – the time you stop turning your eggs to help the unhatched chicks orient themselves for hatching, and also to help raise the humidity in the incubator to the appropriate level for a successful hatch. Because there is important stuff going on in there, […]
Helping a Chick Hatch: Should You Do It?
It’s so exciting to incubate eggs! Waiting for the pip and the zip of the chicks, whether they be chickens, ducks, quail, geese, turkey, or pheasants is something we always look forward to. But anyone who has incubated eggs knows that often times there are chicks who struggle to hatch—which brings us to our controversial […]
How to hatch out a small number of chicks in your kitchen
My young children watched a chick hatch while eating their corn flakes. Experiences like that are worth the small effort of incubating your own eggs. It may be nerve wracking the first time but once a few basics are mastered the excitement of creating life from your own or someone else eggs can happen before […]
