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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 Saturday, September 23rd 2023

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.
024Saturday, September 23rd 2023Start 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).
123Sunday, September 24th 2023Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs!
222Monday, September 25th 2023Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs!
321Tuesday, September 26th 2023Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Don't turn the pheasant eggs!
420Wednesday, September 27th 2023Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions.
519Thursday, September 28th 2023Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions.
618Friday, September 29th 2023Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions.
717Saturday, September 30th 2023Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions.
816Sunday, October 1st 2023Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions.
915Monday, October 2nd 2023Turn the pheasant eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions.
1014Tuesday, October 3rd 2023First 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.
1410Saturday, October 7th 2023Turn 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.
177Tuesday, October 10th 2023Turn 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.
186Wednesday, October 11th 2023Turn 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.
195Thursday, October 12th 2023Turn 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.
204Friday, October 13th 2023Turn 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.
213Saturday, October 14th 2023Second 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.
231Monday, October 16th 2023Be 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...?
240Tuesday, October 17th 2023Pheasant 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.