If you just like to drink wine and stare at your happy flock then you could add in some fluffy feathers like the Polish breed. If you have young kids, and want to have chickens they can hand feed, you might consider some bantam breeds (small size breeds) like a Silkie. If you live in the city and can only keep a few chickens and ya’ll eat a dozen eggs a day- you need a breed that is really known for laying. This sounds like a really “duh” kind of question, but I want you to consider what your future self might say. What breed of chickens do you want to hatch? In this post, I am going to share the top three things you should consider before hatching out chickens, as well as how you can hatch/incubate your own chicks.ġ. We are looking forward to almost doubling that number by the end of this summer.
We are now in our third year of raising our own hatchlings and, last year, we hatched out over 300 birds- mostly using an incubator and a few using broody hens. We hatch out baby chickens, or chicks, for about 5-6 months out of the year and use a few different methods. We are in our 5th year of raising chickens, we own over 100 birds, and until last week we had over 13 breeding pairs (we recently sold our bantam breeds and brought in more meat and egg production breeds to replace them). In fact, even a backyard chicken keeper can get in on the fun and stability that hatching your own chicks provides- especially when done in the comfort of your own home using an incubator. You don’t need a large production farm, homestead, or hobby farm to enjoy raising your own animals.
Raising baby farm animal is about the most fun and rewarding projects you can do, especially when it comes to hatching out chickens. Hatching chickens or other fowl can be done on any scale.
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