A poultry farmer offers up the lessons she learned after building a homemade egg incubator cabinet to hatch rare heritage chicks. My current homemade incubator must be the fifth or sixth version I’ve ...

You’d think that hatching chicks from eggs would be easy – after all, birds do it. But it turns out to be a fussy business for humans, and what momma bird does naturally isn’t necessarily easy for us.

As I mentioned in Which Poultry Hatching Eggs are in Which Incubator?, I had been incubating duck eggs (20 Golden 300 Hybrid eggs) in a Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco poultry incubator. In my old Styrofoam ...