Farm Animals

Quail are small game birds raised for consumption and eggs. Popular varieties include the Bobwhite quail and the Japanese quail. Whatever the type you wish to raise, you can start your own...

The call duck is a small bantam duck breed. The tiny duck, which looks somewhat like its relative, the mallard duck, weighs less than 2 pounds and is typically used for ornamental or pet purposes....

The ability to tell the sex a baby chicken is not an easy process to learn and takes training and experience. The importance of knowing the sex of the baby chicken saves the manufacturer of these...

In the wild, an emu will incubate and hatch its own eggs, sitting on and guarding them. They will do the same on your farm, as well --- but you can also remove the eggs and incubate them...

Your success with hatching eggs will depend on the quality and fertility of the eggs you incubate. Choose eggs with a regular shape and free of cracks and chips. There are several types of...

Hatching chicken eggs can be a fun and educational experience for the entire family. Baby chicks hatch with their eyes open and down covering their body. Within an hour of hatching they are up and...

Homemade chicken incubators can be used to hatch eggs as a science experiment, or to hatch eggs to increase the number of chickens you raise for the table. You can make a homemade chicken...

Caring for baby chickens is a full-time endeavor. Proper housing, a heat source and the ability to meet their nutritional needs should be considered before bringing chicks home, whether you are...

Hatching duck eggs can be an exciting process for both adults and children. It takes close to a month for duck eggs to hatch, so it requires a lot of patience and daily work. The work is not...

The average time for a goose egg to hatch is thirty days after it has been laid. There are variations in species, but for domesticated geese, the average incubation time is a month. Geese make...

When hatching chicken eggs, you'll use one of two kinds of incubators and you'll need to maintain proper incubation conditions. Keeping a steady humidity level increases the chances that the eggs...

Hatching an egg is a great project for any classroom. There is more to it than putting the egg under a light bulb and letting it hatch. The temperature must be monitored. The humidity levels...

Being born is an awesome thing. As humans, we think of this as a difficult and scary proposition, requiring Doctors and Nurses, and all the latest scientific equipment that money can buy. For...

Raising chickens can be both educational and entertaining as well as a way creating sustainability in these unstable times. Not only can you provide chickens for your own use, but hatching chicks...

This ehow article is about raising chickens. You can either order your chicks from a mail order catalog, or raise your own.

You can help a chick hatch. Helping a chicken's egg with hatching isn't too difficult and hatching your own eggs is ridiculously satisfying, but it is fraught with stress (for both you and the...

Before a baby chick can hatch, the mother hen has to make sure the egg has been properly cared for. The eggs must be kept warm, nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and maintain constant humidity levels...

If you are looking to increase the size of your chicken farm faster than your rooster crows, hatching the eggs yourself may be the option for you. There is a bit of a trick to obtaining a...

Successful hatching of poultry eggs depends on the proper care and incubation of the eggs. The incubators' function is to bring normal room temperature up to the correct temperature for hatching...

In the wild, female emus lay their eggs and male emus incubate them. Removing the eggs allows the emus to continue to breed and thus produces more eggs. Once you have removed your eggs from your...

The term "peacock" refers to the male of one of two species of peafowl widely known for its lavish tail plumage. The female, or peahen, is brown and doesn't display the courtship feathers like her...

Pheasants are game birds that are often bred to be hunted on preserves or for wholesale or retail sale to restaurants and consumers. You can buy eggs for hatching from pheasant farmers and...

If you want to raise geese, you can buy goslings or start with eggs. Eggs are cheaper than goslings, and you can hatch them yourself in an incubator. It takes about 30 days of incubation, some...

Turkeys are usually raised for consumption on large farms, but if you are just starting out as a turkey farmer, or if you would like to keep them as pets, you can buy turkey eggs and hatch them...

Everyone knows not to count chickens before they are hatched, but surely there is a way to do it without getting jinxed or by unwittingly causing the death or destruction of one of your chickens....

There are several breeds of ducks. Each duck egg may hatch in different timeframes. The following steps will show you how to hatch eggs from the most common variety of duck, which is the Peking...

Hatching chicken eggs is a common science experiment in classrooms or at home. Children can learn a lot about nature and the growth process by watching chicken eggs hatch. If you are interested in...

Ostriches reach sexual maturity at about 2 years old and then are able to start laying eggs. Adult ostriches can lay up to fifty eggs per year, as long as the eggs are removed from the nest. It...