Hatching chickens

"It's happening Dad!! The baby chick is hatching," my daughter screamed as she watched in delight. There is nothing as exc...

Learn everything you need to know to be successful in hatching chicks in your classroom. A FREE guide is included to help you.

How to incubate chicken eggs and hatch chicks. Step by step guide to using your incubator properly and getting a great hatch rate. Learn to hatch your own chicks!

You've hatched chicks but you are wondering when do chicks need food and water after hatching? It's not as soon as you might think!

Broody hens for hatching chicks. Maybe your incubator is full. Maybe you don't have an incubator. Maybe you just want to see hatching chicks. Putting your already broody hen to work and hatching some cute baby chicks is super easy. Here is our path to broody hens for hatching chicks success!

When it comes to backyard chickens, naturally chicken hatching eggs is an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s easy to do when you let nature more or less take care of everything.

Happy Spring!!!! The weather is finally warming up and joining us in our celebration of spring on the farm. The baby chicks are hatching, the Mama hen's are happily laying a bountiful supply once more, and our little lambs got their very first shearing. Since we are just in the midst of our second hatch

This describes all you need to know about hatching chicken eggs.

"It's happening Dad!! The baby chick is hatching," my daughter screamed as she watched in delight. There is nothing as exc...

This is my first BYC post, lets see how it goes! We just bought a home in the country an inherited 4 hens and I'm curious to the breeds. The previous...

Do hens hatch from round eggs? That's the rumor going around, so I decided to hatch all round eggs and see what hatches. Spoiler alert...I hatched some males! #chickens #backyardchickens #homesteading

So at work there were always two ducks (male and female) that just hung around. So on Thursday, (june 23rd) the female duck randomly had an egg on the pool...

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I notice a lot of misconceptions about sexing Barred Plymouth Rocks, and I wanted to make a post on just that. They can be sexed at hatch by a...

If you are hatching chicks in your classroom check out my blogpost. In it I tell you all about my experience hatching chickens, show you the incubator and the process of the life cycle of a chicken from egg to chick. I also explain a few details of caring for the chicks as well. This is a great experience for a preschool, kindergarten or first grade classroom.

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It takes about 21 days for a fertilized chicken egg to hatch. An incubator is an enclosed box that securely holds the eggs, provides the proper humidity, and keeps eggs at a steady temperature with a heater and a fan to circulate the heat. Visit to learn how to hatch chicks using an incubator.

I have two 4-week-old Doms that I hatched from shipped eggs. I'm wondering if Doms are like some other breeds and only start showing pink in their combs at...

I have one goose egg left viable at day 25. He looks very close to the shell and in the last two days the air cell expanded a lot and slightly dipped down...

Caring for Broody Hens: Facilitating Egg-hatching | The Chicken Chick®