- Aug 29, 2014
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I am a nature lover and a fan of birds specially chicks. When my younger son was 3 years old I decided to have hens so that I can give him good quality eggs. We don't have a backyard so I decided to make a cage on the roof. I live in a hot climate, in summer the temperature rises up to 40 degree centigrade and its very humid as I am in front of sea. In shorts I am having hens and rooster since then. A very strange thing is that our hens never went broody. So I decided to hatch the chicks using incubator. I found out that incubator will be too costly. And in summer the weather of our area is perfect for the chicks to hatch. I gathered 31 eggs and put them in a shoe box with a bad sheet underneath. I used a 60 Watt light bulb to maintain a temperature between 99.5-102 degrees. Here normally humidity is 70% in summers. Here is my setup
I used to turn them few times almost every day. After 20 days I saw that three eggs had started to hatch and chicks were trying to come out. I noticed this in the morning and in the afternoon one of them was out. Here are some of the pics
I used to turn them few times almost every day. After 20 days I saw that three eggs had started to hatch and chicks were trying to come out. I noticed this in the morning and in the afternoon one of them was out. Here are some of the pics