Chicken egg incubator | Community Chickens

Hatching Day! What Will Happen and When to Help a Chick

I just came in from our coops with a basket of eggs. These eggs will not be eaten. Instead, they will be going into my incubator. I mark the breed and the date with a pencil and set them in a labeled egg carton until I have enough to fill the incubator. This is one […]

Chickens,Chicks,Health and Safety

Wry Neck Wreck (Part 2)

By May Woodworth Second part of three-part series on Wry Neck. See the first two parts: Part 1 Final part The next three weeks were worrisome. Incubators were a mystery to me. Scary even. Hens and mother birds were supposed to hatch babies, not hunks of electrified plastic. Machinery in general are a […]

Chickens,Chicks,Eggs,Sponsored Content

Hatch Your Flock with an Incubator

Hatching baby chicks in your own incubator is not only easy — it’s a blast! by Pascale Pearce This content is sponsored by Brinsea. I’ve heard from many backyard poultry enthusiasts who’d like to become more self-sufficient by hatching their own chicks, but who have concerns about the cost and difficulty of doing so. Well, there’s […]

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