What needs to be done to make the quoit sit down. How to organize incubation of eggs? Advantages and disadvantages of rearing chicks with chicks

There is no more natural way than hatching laying chicks. A caring mother will always come to the rescue and prepare the offspring for the realities of the poultry yard. Choosing the right hen is the key to healthy offspring.

If the chicken sat on the eggs and showed the best maternal qualities, other people's eggs, far from motherhood, can be placed under it. Instances suitable for incubation in the household are obtained at a ratio of 1 to 12, where - 1 is the number of roosters, and 12 is the number of potential hens.

Eggs must have the following characteristics:

• demolished no more than 5 days ago;
• the age of the cow that gave birth should not be more than 8 months;
• size - medium, shape - oval;
• the shell is thick, without spots.

It is necessary to store specimens selected with the help of an ovoscope at a temperature of 15 to 18 ° C. If placed in a horizontal position, you need to turn them over every 12 hours for the safety of the embryo.

How many eggs to lay

After the chicken has sat on the eggs, what to do next is a question that worries many beginner poultry farmers. The number of eggs must be odd, up to 17 copies are allowed in one nest. In addition to chicken, farmers lay up to 11 duck or up to 7 goose eggs. In the cold season, the amount is reduced by 2 times.

There are several ways to lay eggs:

• in several stages, as this optimizes the care of hatched chicks;
• one time;
• first they put snags, and then they replace them with the same number of real eggs.

The laying hen must be placed near the nest, wait until she sits in it, and then make adjustments to the masonry.

Looking for the right mom

With the advent of spring, the breeding instinct wakes up in birds, but not all quoks wake up responsible for the future fate of the offspring. Putting a laying hen on eggs, explaining how to hatch them and creating comfortable conditions for both mother and chicks is the primary task of poultry farmers who have abandoned the incubator. When deciding on whom to assign responsibility, you need to look at the options available and make a choice.

Hen that can become a hen:

• remains in the roost after laying the egg;
• clucks often;
• pulls out feathers for the nest;
• stops laying;
• shows aggression when trying to get in touch with her.

In birds seeking to prove themselves as mothers, the comb and earrings are reduced in size, and the skin of the abdomen is also exposed.

You can find out who is more suitable by the following parameters:

1. Chickens of a universal and egg direction, especially outbred ones, are easy to plant in a perch. Some breeds, such as the White Leghorn, are not genetically capable of making good cows.
2. Calm disposition and perseverance. A phlegmatic laying hen will try more to provide decent care than restless individuals.
3. Naturally hatched chicks will make great mothers. Hatchery specimens are almost impossible to train.

Important! To prevent the chicken from making a lot of annoying sounds, experienced farmers came up with one interesting method. The laying hen should be doused with ice water and planted for several days in a closed box, releasing only for eating.

Even if the female cackles, this does not mean that she wants to prove herself as a mother. Why such incidents occur, and how to discourage laying hens from the habit of running away from responsibility, the following recommendations will help:

• when the bird is perched, remove and put it on the floor: if the hen has not moved, she will sit on the masonry;
• make artificial eggs and put them under the crotch: if she takes care of the dummies for 3 days, then she will be able to take care of her own;
• approach the nest with a menacing look: if the chicken spreads its wings and hisses, it will protect the offspring in the future.

Before landing for several days, the birds must be plentifully fed and watered with plenty of water. It is better to plant a chicken in a nest in the evening: a sleepy, tired bird will react more calmly to such an innovation.

Incubation of the female

You can force a chicken to sit in a perch. To do this, you need to do the following:

• prepare the nest and place it in a dark place;
• choose a suitable club, preferably one that has already been carried;
• put a crocodile in a perch and cover it with a basket;
• remove part of the plumage on the stomach.

If within 4 days the female does not begin to claw, the chicken should be replaced.

Nest arrangement

When laying hens leave their houses to eat, change the bedding if necessary.

Chicken care

A stick sitting on a masonry needs to be given maximum attention and care. In the first few days, it is important to control whether the chicken goes out for walks and feeding. If a hen refuses to leave the nest, carefully remove it and keep it away from the perch for 15 minutes. If she walks for a long time, you need to return the female back to the nest.

Folk omens

To make a chicken sit on eggs and raise a good crotch, you can listen to folk signs:

• you can’t take a neighbor’s hen;
• Wednesday, Friday or Saturday are the best days for incubation;
• Monday and religious holidays are not suitable;
• you need to plant a chicken in a nest at a young month;
• do not recommend planting in a perch with outsiders;
• in the place where the quote is located, it is forbidden to whistle;
• straw after the celebration of Christmas Eve contributes to the improvement of productivity indicators and the development of maternal instincts.

It is undesirable to put the first laid egg or specimens with a thin shell into the nest. A chicken hatched by a caring mother hen will subsequently turn into a healthy and strong pullet, pleasing the owners with high productivity.

In many modern egg-oriented chickens, the incubation instinct is suppressed due to the efforts of breeders. This approach allows you to strictly control the number of livestock and select the best eggs for breeding young animals. But many breeds have retained natural qualities, which can complicate the life of a breeder. If a hen begins to cackle and is preparing to become a hen, then a number of measures must be taken to wean her from such behavior.

The need for a hen in a chicken coop is due to the goals of the poultry breeder himself and the characteristics of the breed. With natural breeding of birds, a calm hen can become an excellent mother, which saves the farmer from the need to incubate eggs and take care of the chickens around the clock.

To determine a suitable laying hen, you need to watch the hens for 1-2 days. It is best to incubate eggs calm individuals with a complaisant character. In other chickens, the incubation instinct is eliminated at the first manifestation. That is, the question of what to do if the chicken cackles cannot be answered unambiguously.

• When they plan to get an excellent hen from a bird and natural breeding coincides with the goals of the breeder, then such a chicken is planted on a nest with future young.
• If the laying hen is not prepared for imminent motherhood, but she begins to cackle, then drastic measures must be taken.

If a chicken sits on eggs, how to wean from it and what to do about it - the advice of experienced bird owners will help.

jigging

This is one of the most humane ways to wean a chicken from clucking. The method is recognized by veterinarians and scientists as one of the most effective.

For transplanting, you need a cage with a rib length of about 70 centimeters, that is, a large one so that the hen feels comfortable, but at the same time, her area of ​​\u200b\u200bactivity was limited. A chicken is planted there at the first sign of preparation for incubation.

You can determine that a bird wants to become a crocodile by the following signs:

• Active oviposition abruptly stopped;
• The hen plucks feathers in the abdomen and covers the nest with them;
• When a person approaches the hen, she begins to cackle and tries to run away;
• The bird tries to sit in the nest for a long time.

If any individual in the livestock has noticed such behavior, you need to do the following:

1. Put her in a cage immediately.
2. During the day, put the “prison” in the place of walking so that the chicken is constantly among other chickens. In the absence of a corral, put a temporary dwelling in a bright place, with good ventilation, but without drafts and hot sun.
3. At night, do not release the chicken to the rest of the brothers, but leave it on the floor in the chicken coop or in another place where the bird will be comfortable.
4. Such isolation is observed for 2-3 days, after which it is necessary to plant a rooster to the chicken. This allows you to accelerate the start of laying.
5. On the same day, at night, a couple can be released from the cage to perch.

Important! During the entire period of imprisonment, the chicken is well fed so that there is enough “building” material in her body for oviposition.

If the transplanting procedure was successful, then the result will be noticeable in the morning: the hen will go for a walk with the rest, will soon begin to lay eggs in the same mode, and will not sit in the nest for a long time. In the event that it was not possible to ward off the crocodile, you can try to extend the period of keeping in the cage, not forgetting the important point: so that the chicken does not sit on the egg, she should not see it.

The mere sight of eggs can provoke the development of maternal instinct. Therefore, to prevent constant clucking of layers, you need to check the nests more often and empty them.

Also, the chicken is protected from contact with chickens, as they will squeak, causing her desire to become a mother.

Folk methods

The methods used by the breeders of past centuries are less humane than slinging, but effective. Experienced poultry farmers know that the chicken forgets about the maternal instinct after being exposed to stressful conditions.

Such conditions are artificially created for the bird:

1. Cold water. When a bird wants to become a hen, its body temperature rises above normal as the eggs need to be warmed. If the chicken is poured with cold water or dipped in a basin, then a natural decrease in body temperature will occur and the laying hen will forget about her intentions.
2. Dungeon. Hens like sunlight, so if you put a bird in a dark, cool room, then she will give up her maternal intentions.
3. hunger strike. This method is one of the most cruel to the chicken. For 2–3 days, she is simply not given food and is not allowed to run freely. Such a hunger strike lasts until the bird stops clucking under stressful conditions. Then it is returned to the main livestock and the previous diet.

Why are they taking such strict measures to prevent the chicken from sitting on the eggs? Because the effectiveness of the methods has been tested by time, although there is a high percentage of cases when such methods turned against the breeder.

Dousing with cold water can provoke a disease in a chicken, and a prolonged hunger strike or keeping it in the basement negatively affects its nervous system. As a result, the bird not only stops clucking, stops laying eggs, but may also die.

Therefore, veterinarians advise trying to drive them out of the nest by depositing, and only if this method is ineffective, resort to more stringent measures.

Shock therapy

Some breeders suggest that less experienced colleagues give shock therapy to prevent the hen from sitting on the egg to hatch. But this technique is dangerous and is very stressful for the bird.

For shock therapy, a step-down transformer with clamps is required.

1. One clamp is placed on the comb of the chicken, and the second - on the tongue or on the paw.
2. Then a voltage of 12 volts is applied for 30 seconds.
3. After that, the chicken is released and the procedure is repeated after 30 minutes.

To wean a chicken from incubation, one must carefully monitor the livestock and not miss the moment when the chicken stops laying eggs and begins to cackle. At this time, it is easiest to suppress the maternal instinct. And also, do not resort to extreme measures without trying safe options.

To increase the number of chickens on a personal farmstead, the owner-farmer uses two methods: he hatches chickens using an incubator or chooses a natural way - he plants a hen. The best option, when all the conditions necessary for chickens are created, is to breed chickens with a mother hen.

We recognize a hen in a chicken - we are looking for signs of a crocodile

There are a number of signs by which you can recognize a hen in a chicken:

1. 1. Often during the spring oviposition period, the hen has a desire to incubate eggs.
2. 2. If a bird regularly and for a long time sits in its nest, cackles, creates comfort in its nest, plucking and lining its feathers, and rarely goes out to feed, then you have a real mother hen.
3. 3. Another sign in chickens is a decrease in the comb and a change in its color to pale pink.
4. 4. Some birds, when hatching eggs and raising chickens, begin to show aggression towards humans - this is how they protect their nest and offspring.
5. 5. The mother hen makes her nest in a secluded place. More often it can be the far corner of the chicken coop.
6. 6. Sometimes hens, ready to hatch eggs, lose interest in food, so it is necessary to force them to eat periodically, otherwise they will begin to lose weight quickly.

An old chicken should be planted on eggs: it incubates better than a young one, and you should not replace the nest with it, otherwise the chicken may refuse to sit on the eggs. If there are few eggs under the hen and they are visible, then she has poor incubation abilities. And if there are a lot of them, then it is worth removing a few so that the bird completely covers all future chickens with itself.

Ways to make a chicken

It is possible to plant a domestic chicken on eggs on your own, following a number of recommendations. For beginner poultry farmers, there are a number of tips shared by experienced specialists:

• you need to prepare a nest in a quiet and comfortable place;
• it is better to plant a chicken on eggs in the evening, or light should not get into the chicken coop when planting a hen;
• the nest should not be too large, about 54 by 34 cm, otherwise the eggs may roll out;
• you can use a wooden box, be sure to insulate it from the inside with straw. Over time, the mother hen herself will do everything in the nest as she needs;
• it is permissible to check the incubation instinct by planting a blende on the eggs, after 2-3 days they are replaced by real ones, carefully placing the eggs under the tail so that the bird does not notice the change;
• to stimulate hatching, you can leave about 10 eggs in the nest;
• you can still put the bird in the nest, cover it with a basket on top, open it in 3-4 days and observe: if the bird remains sitting, then you need to put eggs in it
• chickens of meat and universal breeds are considered the best hens.

Hatching eggs - choosing the best samples

When choosing eggs for hatching, you need to consider a number of conditions:

• for breeding chickens at home, we choose fresh eggs taken 6 days before incubation;
• eggs should be clean, with a good shell, medium in size - small and rather big. Since in large ones there may be a double embryo, and in small ones - underdeveloped;
• eggs should be laid out at the bottom of the nest in one row.
• the number of eggs is laid, focusing on the dimensions of your bird. Provided that she can sit down on everything at once and close them. If the chicken is large, about 15 pieces. Then you need to make sure that there are no eggs left outside
• as the chicks hatch, eggs must be added, otherwise the hen may leave the nest.
• if you have several chickens sitting on eggs at the same time, then they need to be seated away from each other so that they do not mix up the eggs and fight.

Hen care - feeding and walking twice a day

When a hen sits on eggs, she needs careful supervision and care. For successful breeding of chickens, it is necessary to keep the bird warm - from 16 to 20 degrees, with an air humidity of 75 percent. It is necessary to ensure that twice a day the chicken goes for a walk, eats and drinks.

For a long time, it seems, incubators should have replaced hens, but there are still many supporters of natural incubation. This method has many advantages: the mother hen herself creates ideal conditions for the chicks to hatch together and almost simultaneously from the nest, and then takes care of them, protects them from various external enemies, teaches them to look for food, etc. Besides:

Yuri016 FORUMHOUSE member

The mother hen does not need electricity, but the incubator does. Moreover, power outage, even for a short time, is dangerous for the life of embryos.

In this article, we will tell you how to recognize a hen, how to properly place her on eggs, and how to care for her, based on the experience of FORUMHOUSE participants.

• How to recognize a kvochka among the rest of the chickens.
• What breeds of chickens make better brood hens.
• How to put a chicken on eggs forcibly.
• How many days does it take for chickens, ducks and gooses to hatch.
• How to help a chick hatch.

How to recognize a good mother hen

A hen that is preparing to sit on eggs always communicates its intention. She begins to cackle, "grumble", fluff up, reluctantly leaves the nest, plucks her feathers. If everything goes well, the hen sits firmly in the nest and in due time brings us pretty healthy chickens.

Zhanna F member of FORUMHOUSE

Village 2 chickens. I put them in fences in the same shed, fences made with the view that they could eat and drink. I put 24 eggs under them, 12 eggs under each. 16 hatched.

A day later, Jeanne gathered all the chickens to one hen, and planted daily broilers under the other.

But this is an almost ideal situation. Sometimes time goes by, and none of the potential eggs for eggs really sits down. This may depend on the breed. The worst hens come from chickens bred specifically to lay eggs: Russian whites, leghorns, etc. Brahms, Chinese silk and some other breeds fit well.

Dirina FORUMHOUSE member

Get bentamochek, they are excellent mother hens. Silks are also distinguished by these qualities, they will hatch and grow both their own and others.

But not all chickens, even breeds with good brooding qualities, will sit on their eggs, rooted to the spot. Some sit out only part of the required period and leave the nest, others can leave for a long time, which leads to the death of the embryos.

Therefore, young hens that do not yet have a well-established reputation as a hen are checked on test eggs (for example, store eggs - they are not a pity). If a hen sits quietly in the nest all day and after a short walk in a hurry to return to the eggs, she is likely to be a good brood hen, test eggs can be replaced with real ones.

A bad hen will leave the test eggs in 2-3 days.

Another common way to test a quail is to carefully remove it behind its back and plant it next to the nest. If the chicken remains sitting, does not get up, then this is a completely excellent hen.

The best hens are obtained from hens aged 2-4 years.

You can simply create the conditions and wait for which of the chickens to wake up the instinct of the mother hen.

Wowoshka FORUMHOUSE member

Make a secluded nest on the floor (lean a piece of slate against the wall) so that there is twilight, but so that the chickens can see the eggs from the floor. Lay 10-15 marked eggs. Always remove fresh eggs. After 2-3 weeks, if there is no result, notice the chickens that have chosen the nest and mark them with brilliant green. If any sit down, wait 3-4 days, then change the eggs.

How to get a chicken to incubate eggs

The experience of FORUMHOUSE participants refutes the myths that neither factory nor domestic hatchery hens breed chickens. Both those and others became full-fledged hens with us.

Wowoshka

I even got red factory chickens, though not all of them.

It is also believed that one cannot forcibly plant a chicken on eggs, but this is not the case either - sometimes birds, as they say, sit down. If it's time for summer, and there is not a single obvious hen in the bird population, you can try to plant the one that seems most suitable. Take a hen that does not lay eggs, an old one or a chicken that is overbred. Cover it with an inverted basket or a large basin, and twice a day for 30 minutes let it out into the fence to drink and peck grain and plant it again under the basket. It is likely that after a few days of such imprisonment, the bird will remain sitting in the nest - such a number goes especially well.

Polinka FORUMHOUSE moderator

Sometimes a chicken seems to be a potential chick, but does not sit down. You can try to force him to sit down: you need a fenced-off place, secluded, semi-dark, with a nest and at least one egg. Escort the clown there, instinct might work.

Hatching periods for different birds

In order to breed offspring, a chicken needs 21 days, a goose - a month, a duck - 28 days (at the same time, musky, or so-called indo-ducks, hatch ducklings after 35-36 days). Therefore, due to the difference in hatching time, it is useless to put duck eggs next to chicken eggs or fresh eggs to those on which the chicken has been sitting for several days. The eggs that are laid later, the bird will not incubate - it will hatch the first batch and leave the nest.

But the chicken hatches perfectly, for example, sits until the ducklings hatch, and then takes care of them, leads and protects them like relatives. Oddly enough, wonderful hens are obtained from turkeys - sometimes much better than from turkeys.

When a mother hen hatches chickens, both factory and hatchery ones can be added to the company. The hen will almost always accept foreign chicks, but preferably day old chicks.

But even with ducklings, even with their own chickens, even with hatchery ones, the chicken will walk no more than a month. A month later, her maternal instincts are completely turned off, she throws them and starts to lead again.

How to determine if the embryo is alive in the egg

The mother hen does not always manage to hatch all the eggs. To find out which eggs are fertilized, some time after incubation, they are checked with a portable ovoscope or brought to an electric light bulb. In chickens, eggs can be checked after a week, in geese and ducks - after two. Unfertilized eggs are uniformly light, in eggs with a live embryo there will be a network of blood vessels, and we will see a dead embryo as a blood ring or a thick line.

Toward the end of the hatching period, you can determine whether the chicks are alive inside the egg by putting the eggs into the water. Here's how this ancient method works: Pour warm water into a deep bowl and carefully lower the egg into it. A "live" egg will begin to move, sway on the water, and an egg with a dead embryo will not even move.

Poultry farmers often notice that in the second half of the hatching period, the hen begins to shirk her duties, gets up more often, moves away from the nest. Here it must be borne in mind that from now on the eggs already emit heat themselves, touch them - they can turn out to be so hot, as if they were red-hot. So your mother hen is behaving normally. Ducks and geese often bathe at this time to moisten and cool the eggs, this softens the shell a little and helps the chicks hatch. Make sure they have a container of water available.

How to help a chick hatch

In a good way, the chick should come out of the egg on its own. You can help him only in exceptional cases, and, as a rule, goslings become these exceptional cases. The shell of goose eggs is so thick that the gosling itself cannot pierce the shell with its still unhardened beak. If he cannot cope with this for more than two days, you need to carefully break off pieces of the shell from the blunt end of the egg.

If the mother hen hatches all the chicks at the same time, do not touch them, let them dry out and bask under the mother during the first day. What to do next, we told in one of our previous publications.

It happens that a bird sits on eggs at the wrong time and inopportunely - on FORUMHOUSE you will learn how. Read our article to help. And our video will help you build a good poultry house.

To increase the number of chickens in their personal backyard, farmers often use incubation. It can be of two types: natural - hatching chickens by a mother hen, or artificial - receiving young animals from an incubator. All the conditions necessary for breeding chickens during natural incubation are created by the mother hen. Let's find out how many days a chicken incubates eggs, and also consider the factors that a poultry farmer can influence in order to get the best result.

Selection and preparation of hens

The process of incubation of eggs by a brood hen is best done in the spring, when the instinct of incubation is most developed in the bird. This period is also good because the hatched chicks will grow in the warm season. The poultry farmer must carefully observe the chickens in order to timely identify among the herd a chicken who wants to hatch chickens.

The mother hen begins to cackle, stays in the nest for a long time, reluctantly leaves it. She plucks out feathers and down with which she covers the nest. But, having identified a choking chicken, you should not rush and immediately put it on the eggs. It is better for 2-3 days to put special lining blendes in the nest under it, for the so-called "sitting" of the chicken. A mother hen with a weak brooding instinct will leave the nest after a while and stop clucking. If the hen has not left the nest during this time, then we can expect that she will cope well with hatching chickens, and put hatching eggs under her.

If there is no suitable hen at the right time, then experienced poultry farmers know how to forcefully plant a chicken to incubate eggs. You should choose a nest located in a dark place, put lining blendes in it. For forced incubation, they choose an overheated chicken or an old laying hen that does not rush. Well for this purpose, a mother hen, which has already hatched chickens, is suitable. The selected bird is planted in a prepared nest, which is covered with a lid or basket. The hen is kept in the nest for 4-5 days, being released twice a day only for feeding and drinking. During this time, the hen sits up and begins to cackle. If this does not happen, you should replace the chicken, and repeat the procedure.

A few days before sitting in the nest, the selected chicken must be provided with plenty of good, complete food. Place the hen on incubated eggs late in the evening or at night to reduce bird anxiety.

Poultry farmers also have the opposite problem - how to wean a chicken from clucking, and make her refuse to incubate eggs. To solve this issue, an old tried and tested method is used. The clucking chicken is soaked in cold water and closed in a cool, dark room. The chicken is released twice a day for feeding. The procedure is repeated for several days in a row, until she loses the instinct of incubation.

The device and placement of the nest

The nest for the mother hen is arranged in a quiet and remote place from the main herd. The bird in it should be located freely, but the floor area in the nest should not be too large so that the eggs do not roll out from under the chicken. The optimal size is 55 cm × 35 cm. The bottom is covered with turf, straw and fluff are covered on top of it in such a way that a bowl-shaped recess is obtained in the middle so that the eggs do not roll into a pile. The corners should be thoroughly covered so that the egg cannot roll there. The entrance to the nest is covered with a light canopy so that the mother hen can freely leave and return to it.

Nests can be made suspended or set at a low height to prevent rat attacks. If several hens are located in the same room, then they should be placed at a considerable distance or isolated from each other in order to prevent confusion among the bird and, as a result, fights in the nest.

All these nuances should be foreseen before you decide to plant a chicken in a nest on hatching eggs. After planting, the hen will put the nest in order, and then the poultry breeder is only required to inspect it during the descent of the chicken, and change the contaminated litter in time.

After the end of incubation, the litter is removed from the nest, disinfected and dried. It can be used for the next chick hatch.

Selection and laying eggs under the hen

After the chicken is selected and seated, the moment comes for laying eggs. To do this, you need to select eggs for incubation according to the following criteria:

1. To obtain hatching eggs on your own farm, you must observe the ratio of roosters and hens in the herd. For birds of egg breeds, it is - 1 rooster for 10-12 hens.
2. The bird must be healthy, sexually mature (not younger than 7 months).
3. Eggs must be fresh (not older than six days), the optimum storage temperature is 15-20 ° C, air humidity is about 75%. It is necessary to exclude polluted and broken ones from their number.
4. Medium-sized eggs are chosen, since small ones can have a bad embryo, and large ones often contain two yolks.
5. Look through the eggs on an ovoscope to remove any containing inclusions.

How many eggs can you put under one hen? Their number depends on the size of the chicken, breed, physique. It is especially important that all of them are placed under the hen at the same time, located in the nest in one layer.

Under a large, well-developed bird, 13-15 chicken eggs can be placed. Chickens hatch well and eggs of other birds: turkeys, geese, ducks, pheasants and others.

After the hen has sat out, you can replace the lining blendes with hatching eggs. This is done when the hen leaves the nest, while adding the right amount. In the process of incubation, new eggs should not be added under the hen, because after the appearance of the first chicks, the hen will leave the nest.

Care of the hen during the incubation period

After the hen has been seated to hatch the chicks, there is a period of incubation, and a certain amount of care is required from the poultry farmer.

How long does it take for a hen to incubate eggs (chicks)? Incubation lasts 21 days. During this time, it is necessary to control embryonic development three times with the help of an ovoscope. In its course, the quality of the embryos, the conditions of incubation are revealed. Chicken eggs are viewed on the 7th, 11th and 18th day from the moment the chicken began to incubate eggs.

On first viewing, the developing embryo should not be visible, only its shadow and well-developed blood vessels on the yolk. A poorly developed embryo is clearly visible near the shell; in a dead embryo, the vessels are dark, in the form of a ring. Unfertilized eggs are viewed as completely light.

At the second examination, well-developed embryos are visible in the form of a network of blood vessels in a light field. The shadow of the embryos is the fourth part.

At the third viewing, the embryos are visible as a dark spot. At the blunt end of the egg, their movements can be observed.

After each inspection, culled eggs should be selected, and the remaining ones should be placed closer to the center of the nest.

The conclusion of the young and planting him to the hen

Pecking and hatching of chickens takes place from 19 to 21 days of incubation. However, these periods may vary depending on the conditions of storage of hatching eggs.

It should be remembered that the mother hen, after hatching the first chicks, can throw the remaining eggs. Therefore, the hatching of chickens should be constantly monitored.

Hatched chicks are left under the hen for several hours to dry, and then they are placed in a separate basket or box lined with soft cloth or paper and kept at a temperature of 26-28 ° C. Under the chicken, the young are released after the hatch is over.

Under the hen, you can plant not only chickens bred by her, but also young animals from another chicken or from an incubator. It is better to do this at the same time in the evening, during feeding. One hen can lead up to 25 chickens.

Caring for a hen with young animals consists in their timely feeding, watering and protection from predators and bad weather.

Some poultry farmers are wondering: how long can a chicken sit on eggs? In order to answer it, you can conduct a simple experiment. After the chicks hatch, fresh hatching eggs are placed under the hen. A good mother hen can sit another offspring. However, it should be remembered that the hatching of chickens is a big burden on the hen, and you should not exploit it only for the purpose of conducting the experiment.