Everything You Need To Know About Fertile Eggs
What are they? Technically speaking, fertile eggs are where the ‘blastodisc’ turns into a ‘blastoderm’ - the first stage of a developing embryo. In layman's...
Incubation: How To Tell If An Egg Is Fertile Or Infertile
Not sure whether your eggs are fertile? There are a couple of different methods you can use to see if there’s potential life inside an...
What Is a Brooder?
A chicken brooder is a man-made Mummy to a baby chick. It keeps them toasty warm while they grow from little fluff balls to chickens...
The First 60 Days Of A Baby Chicken’s Life
The thought of raising baby chickens from scratch can be a little nerve wracking, but like everything in life - being knowledgeable and well-informed makes...
What Do Baby Chickens Eat?
Looking at getting some adorable little feathered friends? Congratulations - raising baby chickens is one of the most rewarding experiences you’ll ever have. But, do...
Hatch-A-Long: Day 18
Hatching week is a hairs breadth away and we are beyond egg-cited to meet our new baby chickens! Today is the last day we candle...
The Joys Of Incubating
Ah, the miracle of birth! Waiting for baby chickens to be born is such a wonderful time- it’s filled with great anticipation, joy and excitement!...
Tips About Protecting Baby Chickens
Baby Chicks And Your Dog: A Love Story Everybody loves their pets: dogs, cats, baby chickens, goannas, cobras, chimpanzees, it doesn’t matter - a caring...
Chicken Hatch-A-Long: Day 5
Diary Day 5 - 15/09/2014 - Our First Candle and Humidity Issues Day 5 is already upon us – how did that happen!? Today is...
Chicken Hatch-A-Long: Day 1
Diary Entry 1 – 11/09/2014 – Setting Up The Incubator & Day One Welcome to our Backyard Chicken Coops hatch-a-long! We are so excited to...
Hatching Baby Chickens: A Great Learning Experience For Kids
For a chicken keeper, there’s nothing more rewarding than hatching your own baby chickens and raising them from scratch. This wonderful egg-sperience is made even...
The Baby Chicken Checklist
Raising baby chickens is an extremely rewarding experience - you’ll love to see how quickly they grow, and how they behave with their little brothers...
A Day In The Life Of Baby Chickens
I’m sure we can all agree that yes, kittens are very cute. And puppies- so playful and floppy it’s hard not to smile. But nothing...
What To Do In The First Few Days Of A Baby Chicken's Life
Embarking on the wonderful experience of hatching baby chickens? While your eggs are turning and the embryos are growing, you should make yourself an egg-spert...
Common Problems With Baby Chickens And How To Overcome Them
It’s a beautiful moment the day baby chickens arrive into the world - whether its via our own hatching activities or through buying them. Sometimes,...
What To Do When Baby Chickens Start To Hatch
Raising Baby Chickens - What To Do In The First 24 Hours So the magical hatching day has arrived! You have watched in awe of...
Incubation: Everything You Need To Know About Incubator Heat and Humidity
Hatching your own chickens is one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences, especially when lots of your little ones make it through the entire...
How to care for Baby Chicks
Keen to keep backyard chickens? One of the most important decisions you'll make is whether you want to start with point of lay chooks, pullets...
The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Chickens in School
Are you thinking of keeping a flock of chickens in your school, kindergarten or childcare centre? Let’s have a peck at why it’s an egg-cellent...
Why Spring Is The Perfect Time To Hatch Chickens
Ever tangoed with the idea of hatching chickens? Well, spring is the perfect time to put your ideas into practice! Everything about the season of...
Chicken Vs Machine: The Best Ways To Hatch Baby Chickens Explained
Raising baby chickens is one of the most rewarding experiences you could ever have as a chicken keeper. Honestly, who doesn’t love the idea of...
Preparing For The Big Day: Hatching Day
It's finally time to watch your little miracles come to life and break into the big wide world. The hatching process is hugely responsible for...
Baby Chick Incubation and Hatching
Looking at getting some adorable little feathered friends? Congratulations - raising baby chickens is one of the most rewarding experiences you’ll ever have. But, do...
All About Incubation
There is nothing more spectacular than the miracle of birth! Chicken incubating is egg-straordinarily spectacular! Hatching chicken eggs is an amazing process-in just twenty-one days,...
What is Candling?
Egg candling is a necessary part of the incubation process, that helps you identify whether the embryo is developing as it should, or whether something...
How To Look After A Broody Hen Who is Incubating
If you’re using a broody hen to incubate some fertile eggs, then they need a little more TLC than normal. Broody hens always put the...
Becoming BFFs with Your Shy Chook
Chickens thrive on spending quality time with their feathery siblings and with you, their faithful chicken keeper. They are very social creatures by nature but,...
Preparing For Baby Chickens
Preparing to take care of baby chickens is a serious commitment, a lot like having a baby of your own, only less terrifying. There is...
First Few Days and Weeks with Baby Chicks
“Peep, peep! Cheap, cheap!” Welcome to the wonderfully egg-citing world of fuzzy little baby chicks! Falling in love at first sight may be just a...
What to Feed Baby Chickens - From Day Olds to 8 Weeks
Like all newborns, baby chicks need special attention. Chicks need egg-cellent nutrition to equip them to travel the journey from chick to fully feathered adult....
Join over 100,000 readers every week.
+Browse Categories
-
Ask our resident poultry expert - it's free
Got a problem? Need to know something but short of time?
Just click the Request Help button and fill in the form. Our poultry expert will respond same day between 10am - 5pm Monday to Friday AEST.
Forget reading 1000+ words, just ask us!
Submit your question to our resident poultry expert - it's free
© 2025 Backyard Chicken Coops. All Rights Reserved
