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Calculate the incubation time for pheasants and partridges - © Tino Bellmann

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The breeding of the pheasant / partridge starts on Wednesday, February 4th 2026

Day+Day-DateTo 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.
024Wednesday, February 4th 2026Start 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).
123Thursday, February 5th 2026Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs!
222Friday, February 6th 2026Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs!
321Saturday, February 7th 2026Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs!
420Sunday, February 8th 2026Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions.
519Monday, February 9th 2026Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions.
618Tuesday, February 10th 2026Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions.
717Wednesday, February 11th 2026Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions.
816Thursday, February 12th 2026Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions.
915Friday, February 13th 2026Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions.
1014Saturday, February 14th 2026First 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.
1410Wednesday, February 18th 2026Turn 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.
177Saturday, February 21st 2026Turn 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.
186Sunday, February 22nd 2026Turn 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.
195Monday, February 23rd 2026Turn 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.
204Tuesday, February 24th 2026Turn 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.
213Wednesday, February 25th 2026Second 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.
231Friday, February 27th 2026Be 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...?
240Saturday, February 28th 2026Pheasant 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.