| Day+ | Day- | Date | To Do |
|---|---|---|---|
| If you have fertilized pheasant eggs, leave them untouched for one day. Recommended environment temperature is 20 centigrade. Store them with soft rounded end up and pointed end down. | |||
| 0 | 24 | Sunday, March 22nd 2026 | Start the incubation process: Clean and disinfect the breeding machine. Fill in the water. Set the incubator's relative humidity to 65% RH. Clean the fertilized pheasant breeding eggs, put them into the incubator and mark them if needed. Increase the temperature in the incubator slowly (!!) to 37.6 centigrade. (99.7 Deg.Fahrenheit). |
| 1 | 23 | Monday, March 23rd 2026 | Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs! |
| 2 | 22 | Tuesday, March 24th 2026 | Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs! |
| 3 | 21 | Wednesday, March 25th 2026 | Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs! |
| 4 | 20 | Thursday, March 26th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
| 5 | 19 | Friday, March 27th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
| 6 | 18 | Saturday, March 28th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
| 7 | 17 | Sunday, March 29th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
| 8 | 16 | Monday, March 30th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
| 9 | 15 | Tuesday, March 31st 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
| 10 | 14 | Wednesday, April 1st 2026 | First examination of eggs. Take a special kind of lamp to check the fertilization. The little embryo casts a shadow. Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. Open the breeding machine for 15 minutes to cool the pheasant eggs down. Take a sprayer bottle with hand warmed water to moist the pheasant eggs. Close the incubator. Check the water level in the incubator and refill if needed. |
| 14 | 10 | Sunday, April 5th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. Open the breeding machine for 15 minutes to cool the pheasant eggs down. Take a sprayer bottle with hand warmed water to moist the pheasant eggs. Close the incubator. Check the water level in the incubator and refill if needed. |
| 17 | 7 | Wednesday, April 8th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. Open the breeding machine for 15 minutes to cool the pheasant eggs down. Take a sprayer bottle with hand warmed water to moist the pheasant eggs. Close the incubator. Check the water level in the incubator and refill if needed. |
| 18 | 6 | Thursday, April 9th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. Open the breeding machine for 15 minutes to cool the pheasant eggs down. Take a sprayer bottle with hand warmed water to moist the pheasant eggs. Close the incubator. Check the water level in the incubator and refill if needed. |
| 19 | 5 | Friday, April 10th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. Open the breeding machine for 15 minutes to cool the pheasant eggs down. Take a sprayer bottle with hand warmed water to moist the pheasant eggs. Close the incubator. Check the water level in the incubator and refill if needed. |
| 20 | 4 | Saturday, April 11th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. Open the breeding machine for 15 minutes to cool the pheasant eggs down. Take a sprayer bottle with hand warmed water to moist the pheasant eggs. Close the incubator. Check the water level in the incubator and refill if needed. |
| 21 | 3 | Sunday, April 12th 2026 | Second examination of eggs. The duck embryo fills the egg now. If the egg is not dark, it is not fertilized. Only the air chamber is still white. Put the pheasant eggs on a hatching pad. Stop turning the eggs. Set temperature to 37.4 centigrade. Increase humidity to 70% RH and more. Don't open the incubator anymore. |
| 23 | 1 | Tuesday, April 14th 2026 | Be prepared to welcome the new-born pheasant chickens. Do you have a bird chick brooder, a heater or a heating lamp, special chicks food, water, poultry drinker for chicks...? |
| 24 | 0 | Wednesday, April 15th 2026 | Pheasant chick's hatching day! End of incubation. Leave the little chicks in the incubator for a day (optional). Attention: Incubation can take some days longer. |