| 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 | Friday, January 23rd 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 | Saturday, January 24th 2026 | Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs! |
| 2 | 22 | Sunday, January 25th 2026 | Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs! |
| 3 | 21 | Monday, January 26th 2026 | Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs! |
| 4 | 20 | Tuesday, January 27th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
| 5 | 19 | Wednesday, January 28th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
| 6 | 18 | Thursday, January 29th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
| 7 | 17 | Friday, January 30th 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
| 8 | 16 | Saturday, January 31st 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
| 9 | 15 | Sunday, February 1st 2026 | Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
| 10 | 14 | Monday, February 2nd 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 | Friday, February 6th 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 | Monday, February 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. |
| 18 | 6 | Tuesday, February 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. |
| 19 | 5 | Wednesday, February 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. |
| 20 | 4 | Thursday, February 12th 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 | Friday, February 13th 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 | Sunday, February 15th 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 | Monday, February 16th 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. |