Garrett's Incubation Page
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Garrett's page showing the incubation process.


This is the "big" GQF incubator where most of the eggs are set for their last 2 weeks.
The "Brinsea 40" incubator
Many of the eggs are started in this incubator. It holds its temeprature perfectly and rocks continuosly. the rest of the eggs are started under hens.
A peahen egg and a chicken egg
Waiting to go into the incubator.
A cochin broody hen starting the eggs before they go into the incubator.
A silky broody hen on her nest.
Newly hatched chicks "resting."
These are actually chickens, but I have found that the cochin chicks have a calming affect on the high strung spalding and java peachicks.
Peachicks and 2 chickens.
A broody with Lady Amherst's pheasant chicks.
The cochin mothers also have a calming affect on the very active pheasant chicks.
A Lady Amherst's pheasant chick.
Conversely, pheasant chicks have a very dispruptive affect when mixed with peafowl chicks. Peachicks cluster together, while pheasants seem to scatter in every direction at the same moment, making handling a group a bit of a problem.