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 ...

Shows how I replaced the plastic floor in my cheap egg incubator with a galvanised mesh to make the surface non-slip for hatchlings/chicks. It's important to have good flooring to help reduce leg ...

Poultry farmers often do this when eggs are in incubators, to see developing embryos; although the eggs you purchase at the store are unfertilized, candling helps with the egg-grading process.