How to Make a Plan for Incubating & Hatching Chicksby Alexa Lehr | The Pioneer Chicks | April 16, 2024This post may contain affiliate links. See our Disclosure for more information. There’s no better way to add chicks naturally to your homestead than through hatching them right on the homestead!...

How to Control Humidity in an Incubatorby Alexa Lehr | The Pioneer Chicks | April 18, 2023This post may contain affiliate links. See our Disclosure for more information. There are three essential conditions that chicken eggs need in order to hatch: heat, humidity, and turning. Humidity is necessary during incubation...

Welcome to the second post in the series “Incubating Chicken Eggs”! This three post series is designed to help you successfully incubate and hatch chicks on your homestead! If you aren’t quite to the stage of putting hatching eggs in the incubator, then you will want to jump back to...

The three main elements needed for incubating chicken eggs are heat, humidity, and turning. All incubators should have an automatic method of controlling the temperature. And you can often choose incubators that have an automatic turning system as well. However, humidity features in different incubators vary and can range from...

If you are planning on hatching chicks on your homestead without using a broody hen, you will need to invest in an incubator. Nowadays there are plenty of incubator models and styles of incubators to choose from. They range from small tabletop models to large cabinet style models. Aside from...