What is it like to hatch chicks? How to hatch chicks

Before incubation, it is better to choose eggs within a week, preferably 3-4 days, and then do a good job of disinfection, you can take simple foam disinfection, and finally pay attention to the control of temperature and humidity during the incubation process.

There are three conditions that need to be met for hatching chicks. One is that the egg must be a fertilized egg. The second is to maintain a constant temperature. The third is that it needs to hatch for about 21 days, and it is exciting when the chicks come out of the shell.

There is a natural way to hatch chicks, which is to use the hen's body temperature and exert the hen's instinctive love to hatch the chicks out of the eggs, which is one of the common methods.

When the artificial incubation is put on the plate, the room temperature should be kept at about 25 during the operation, and the action should be fast, and it should be kept within 30 to 40 minutes; Eggs are manually moved from the hatching tray to the hatcher tray to finish the eggs in each setter, which is too long for embryonic development.

Chicks hatch for about 21 days, 18 days for traying, 7 days for eggs, generally affected by room temperature, may be early or delayed hatching.

The other is artificial, using the incubator, you need to adjust the temperature, just like the principle of roasting sweet potatoes or steamed steamed buns, and when it comes to a certain time, the chicks will break out of the shell.

In the incubation operation, the main contradiction between improving the hatchability rate and the quality of the chicks should be grasped, and the incubation conditions suitable for the development of embryos at these two stages should be created as much as possible. Generally, attention is paid to heat preservation in the early stage and ventilation in the later stage.

A long time ago, I heard from the old people that in the past, farmers generally put the eggs to be hatched on the rice pile (the rice is in the grain fence or in the room dedicated to the rice) and turn on the tungsten wire lamp to hatch, and the specific time is also several days.

Choosing the right incubation technology and manually controlling the incubation environment can improve the hatchability of eggs, as strict control of the right temperature and humidity can directly affect the hatchability of eggs.

Prepare 1 cardboard box or wooden box, the bottom and four walls of the box are tightly pasted with paper, and then a layer of bedding with a thickness of half an inch, such as cotton and hay.

Place the eggs in a box layer by layer (no more than 3 layers), put a thermometer on top of the top egg, and then cover the box tightly with a quilt. Control the temperature in the box to 38-39 and turn the eggs every 6-8 hours to ensure that the eggs are evenly heated.

After 19 days of incubation, place the head of the egg upwards, pad it with cotton around it, cool the egg every 3 hours, each time for 1-2 minutes, and the chicks can come out of the shell after about 1-2 days.

Chick incubation is divided into natural incubation and artificial incubation. The incubation period of chickens is about 21 days, 18 days of putting on the plate, 7 days of eggs, generally to room temperature, there may be early or delayed hatching.

There are two main ways to hatch chicks: natural and artificial. Natural incubation requires the help of hens for incubation. In artificial incubation, it is necessary to use a professional incubator or incubator to hatch the chicks. Lead teasing artificial incubation is more troublesome than hen incubation.

In general, if you want the embryo to develop normally, the humidity should not be lower than 35% and the maximum humidity should not be higher than 40%. In the process of incubating chicks, it is necessary to have an accurate grasp of the humidity of the environment.

The temperature of hatching chicks should not be too high or too low, and it is generally appropriate to control the incubation temperature between 36 °C and 42 °C.

If you want to prevent diarrhea after the chick hatches, you need to replenish the water to the chick in time to avoid the chick from dehydration and death, and it is advisable to be coarse for 3 hours after hatching.

There are two ways to hatch chicks, which are: hen incubation and machine incubation.

1. Hen hatching

Hens hatching chicks is the most common method in our rural areas, and the specific method is to use the hen's nest and oak habit to hatch chicks; More than 20 years ago, farmers who had chickens knew that hens lay eggs for a period of time and then did not lay eggs, and they also found a place with all kinds of hay or straw to hold their nests. When hatching chicks, it is necessary to have a stable temperature and humidity, and use nest hens to hatch chicks.

Second, the machine incubation

Now the machine hatches chicks, generally using automatic incubation machines, there are many models of incubation machines, all kinds of large and small models; The machine incubator can provide stable temperature, humidity, and automatic egg turning function, so mechanical incubation is the best method.

The method of machine hatching chicks

1. Choose eggs

Chicks are generally incubated artificially, first of all, we must choose the fertilized egg, and to ensure that it is the hen nearly 1 week of the eggs, if the eggs are stored for too long, it will lead to a low hatching rate of chicks.

2. Disinfection work

When incubating chicks, the incubator is sterilized, then fresh eggs are selected, placed on the trays with their heads facing up, sprayed with a diluted solution of potassium permonate, and the temperature is raised to 20 degrees Celsius to keep the eggs clean.

3. Temperature control

In the process of incubating chicks, the temperature should be maintained at Celsius for the first 1-6 days, 6-16 days for Celsius, and 16-20 days for Celsius.

4. Start turning eggs

When hatching chicks, the eggs should be turned in the first 1-18 days, and it is required to be turned every 2 hours, and the angle of turning the eggs is about 45 degrees.