8 Tips for Shipping Hatching Eggs Successfullyby Alexa Lehr | The Pioneer Chicks | June 11, 2024This post may contain affiliate links. See our Disclosure for more information. From folks who are not familiar with shipping and selling hatching eggs, I get lots of questions in regards to how I...

10 Tips for Hatching Svart Hona Chicksby Alexa Lehr | The Pioneer Chicks | April 30, 2024This post may contain affiliate links. See our Disclosure for more information. I specialize in breeding, hatching, developing, and selling the rare Svart Hona chicken breed on my homestead. Over the years, this breed...

How to Make a Plan for Incubating & Hatching Chicksby Alexa Lehr | The Pioneer Chicks | April 16, 2024This post may contain affiliate links. See our Disclosure for more information. There’s no better way to add chicks naturally to your homestead than through hatching them right on the homestead!...

When to Remove Chicks from the Incubatorby Alexa Lehr | The Pioneer Chicks | June 27, 2023This post may contain affiliate links. See our Disclosure for more information. If everything goes as planned during a hatch, you shouldn’t have a problem with knowing when to take the fluffy youngsters out...

Incubating Chicken Eggs Part 3- Lockdown & Hatchingby Alexa Lehr | The Pioneer Chicks | April 25, 2023This post may contain affiliate links. See our Disclosure for more information. For those of you following along in our homestead Incubating series, part three covers the last two big parts of incubating...

How to Control Humidity in an Incubatorby Alexa Lehr | The Pioneer Chicks | April 18, 2023This post may contain affiliate links. See our Disclosure for more information. There are three essential conditions that chicken eggs need in order to hatch: heat, humidity, and turning. Humidity is necessary during incubation...

The three main elements needed for incubating chicken eggs are heat, humidity, and turning. All incubators should have an automatic method of controlling the temperature. And you can often choose incubators that have an automatic turning system as well. However, humidity features in different incubators vary and can range from...

If you are planning on hatching chicks on your homestead without using a broody hen, you will need to invest in an incubator. Nowadays there are plenty of incubator models and styles of incubators to choose from. They range from small tabletop models to large cabinet style models. Aside from...

If you have done your research at all on hatching chicks, you will know that most sources tell you not to help a chick hatch. And I totally agree! Healthy chicks don’t need help hatching. However, I do believe there are circumstances in which you can help a chick hatch...

There’s nothing more exciting on the homestead than watching a mother animal do her thing and raise her babies! As much as we love to get our hands into the mix and do the raising ourselves, it’s always so much more fun, a whole lot less work, and so less...