With the price of eggs soaring, raising chickens has become ever more popular, and incubating those eggs is essential for a successful hatch. Egg incubators provide the warmth and humidity necessary ...

These days, you don’t need to live on a farm to raise chickens. Backyard chickens have become pretty popular but caring for these quirky pets usually involves something of a learning curve — in ...

If you want to keep eggs warm to hatch, you’ll need an incubator. You could buy one off the shelf, but they’re not so complex — just a nicely-controlled warm box you could easily whip up yourself. As ...

This is an experiment I conducted to hatch out quail eggs by using a broody chicken. The concept is the broody hens will sit on the quail eggs and hatch them out so I decided to try this method of ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. In the Smart Harvest edition of November 5 last year, I covered the consequences of having a faulty incubator and the ...

Wondering ‘can a chicken raise a duck?’ The answer is yes, though you may need to be patient. If you want to learn how to hatch a duck egg without an incubator, you should consider using a broody hen.

In the Smart Harvest edition of November 5 last year, I covered the consequences of having a faulty incubator and the losses associated with poor quality incubator machinery. In this edition we will ...