Day+ | Day- | Date | To Do |
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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 | Saturday, May 18th 2024 | 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 | Sunday, May 19th 2024 | Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs! |
2 | 22 | Monday, May 20th 2024 | Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs! |
3 | 21 | Tuesday, May 21st 2024 | Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs! |
4 | 20 | Wednesday, May 22nd 2024 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
5 | 19 | Thursday, May 23rd 2024 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
6 | 18 | Friday, May 24th 2024 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
7 | 17 | Saturday, May 25th 2024 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
8 | 16 | Sunday, May 26th 2024 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
9 | 15 | Monday, May 27th 2024 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
10 | 14 | Tuesday, May 28th 2024 | 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 | Saturday, June 1st 2024 | 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 | Tuesday, June 4th 2024 | 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 | Wednesday, June 5th 2024 | 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 | Thursday, June 6th 2024 | 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 | Friday, June 7th 2024 | 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 | Saturday, June 8th 2024 | 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 | Monday, June 10th 2024 | 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 | Tuesday, June 11th 2024 | 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. |