| 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, June 21st 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, June 22nd 2026 | Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs! |
| 2 | 22 | Tuesday, June 23rd 2026 | Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs! |
| 3 | 21 | Wednesday, June 24th 2026 | Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs! |
| 4 | 20 | Thursday, June 25th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
| 5 | 19 | Friday, June 26th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
| 6 | 18 | Saturday, June 27th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
| 7 | 17 | Sunday, June 28th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
| 8 | 16 | Monday, June 29th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
| 9 | 15 | Tuesday, June 30th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
| 10 | 14 | Wednesday, July 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, July 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, July 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, July 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, July 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, July 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, July 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, July 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, July 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. |