Quickly Grow Your Hatchery

When you’re ready to take your hobby hatchery to the next level, a tabletop incubator just isn’t going to do the trick. Choosing new equipment to get the job done can be confusing and expensive, but there’s no reason to get overwhelmed. Take a look at everything available and you will begin to see how just a few new pieces can help you quickly grow your hatchery business from hobby level to lucrative organization in just a matter of months.

The key to growing your hatchery is definitely in the numbers. A simple tabletop incubator can help you hatch up to forty eggs at one time, but those numbers are nowhere near what you need to keep your hatchery going. After the hatching, you must consider the healthiest way to raise them so that they live beyond the first few weeks of life. Your main goal is to produce chickens that can keep you supplied with eggs, which then helps to perpetuate the cycle. If you’re ready to handle those numbers, then it’s time to look at a cabinet incubator, a setter, a brooder, and a grow pen.

The cabinet incubator will allow you to incubate hundreds of eggs at one time. The key to success is to begin a cycle with your first hatching and allow that cycle to continue without interruption. Starting with your incubating eggs, you then move them to the hatcher. Once the incubator is free and those eggs are moved to the hatcher, you can begin a new cycle with the incubator. The eggs in the hatcher will hatch as they are supposed to, and you can then move the second cycle of eggs from the incubator into the hatcher. Your new chicks will go into the brooder where they start their first few weeks of life. The incubator will then be filled with a new round of eggs, and your cycle is successfully begun.

While you might think you could get away without one of the pieces of equipment, it’s important to understand that the health of the chicks determines the number of eggs you produce. Without a great incubator, fewer eggs with make it to hatching. Without the brooder, fewer chicks will live past the first few weeks of life. Equipment is expensive, but it is an important and necessary aspect of keeping your birds alive and healthy. Foregoing one item could make a huge difference in the size and scope of your business.

By: Will Hanekom

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