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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 | Friday, May 02nd 2025 | 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 | Saturday, May 3rd 2025 | Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs! |
2 | 22 | Sunday, May 4th 2025 | Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs! |
3 | 21 | Monday, May 5th 2025 | Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs! |
4 | 20 | Tuesday, May 6th 2025 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
5 | 19 | Wednesday, May 7th 2025 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
6 | 18 | Thursday, May 8th 2025 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
7 | 17 | Friday, May 9th 2025 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
8 | 16 | Saturday, May 10th 2025 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
9 | 15 | Sunday, May 11th 2025 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
10 | 14 | Monday, May 12th 2025 | 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 | Friday, May 16th 2025 | 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 | Monday, May 19th 2025 | 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 | Tuesday, May 20th 2025 | 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 | Wednesday, May 21st 2025 | 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 | Thursday, May 22nd 2025 | 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 | Friday, May 23rd 2025 | 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 | Sunday, May 25th 2025 | 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 | Monday, May 26th 2025 | 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. |