Hatching Chicken Eggs Naturally - Step by Step Guide

Step 5 : Everyday procedure

Now you have to support your Mother hen! the hen will be in "trance" she won't leave the nest, won't eat, won't drink.....The eggs need ventilation every day, for highest success rate.

If she won't leave the nest by herself:
simply lift her up and set her on the floor of your coop, she may need a little poke to wake up :)

now she requires following things:
-drink
-eat (give her whole wheat, she needs lots of protein, don't feed her vegetables, she could get diarrhea- not good for eggs)
- take a dirtbath (against parasites)
- small stones that help to break up the wheat ( i have them in the dirtbath)
- and most important:
she needs to poo! :D - you'll recognize the poo of her - it'll smell extraterrestrial and will be huge :)
-make sure your hen doesn't stay much longer than 20-30 minutes from away from the nest! most hens will return by themselves.
If it's very hot it's ok with 40 minutes.


proceed until day 19!