Hatching and chick-raising guides
Everything we'd share with you standing beside the brooder, written down and laid out to print. Please take them, use them, and pass them along to whoever is raising the birds with you.
Hatching Chicken Eggs
From setting your incubator to the very first pip — temperature and humidity targets, turning, candling on day 7 and day 14, lockdown on day 18, and how to enjoy those last magical three days. Finishes with a handy quick-reference chart.
PDF · 3 pages · FreeRaising Baby Chicks
Day one through the day they move outside — brooder setup and bedding, learning to read your chicks, water and feed as they grow, a week-by-week timeline, and how to introduce your pullets to the flock.
PDF · 4 pages · FreeThese are general guides written from our own experience, not veterinary advice. If one of your birds is poorly or injured, please do call a vet who works with poultry.
Hatching with a classroom?
We've put together classroom versions of these guides before, written for the students doing the work — and it was such a joy. If you're a teacher hoping to hatch with your class, please get in touch and we'll help you set it up.