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Essential Techniques for Successful Chick Breeding: From Egg Candling to Brooding Strategies

Discover the critical steps in successful chicken breeding, focusing on egg candling, chick processing, and brooding techniques. Learn how to examine embryo development by candling eggs after 10 days of incubation and identify potential issues. Understand the factors influencing chick size, including egg size and moisture loss during incubation. Gain insights into proper brooding conditions, including temperature management and the importance of fresh water. Explore historical breeding practices and how modern knowledge can improve outcomes while maintaining the welfare of the birds.

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Essential Techniques for Successful Chick Breeding: From Egg Candling to Brooding Strategies

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  1. Breeder, layer continued

  2. Egg Candling • Candling allows examination of embryo development • After 10 days of incubation, use a small flashlight and place it on the large end of the egg while in a dark room • Examine and determine normal embryo development at 10 days • Break open unhatched eggs (residue breakout) to determine fertility or embryo death

  3. Store bought egg Undefined, hard to tell if there's a chick developing Chick developing Spots like this may indicate bacterial contamination Air cell Chick developing

  4. Hatchability

  5. Chick Pull and Processing • Chicks separated, graded by quality, counted • Vaccination

  6. Factors Influencing Chick Size • Egg size • Chick weight 66-68% of egg weight • Moisture loss during incubation • Length of time between setting and pulling chicks from hatchers • Date at which incubation began

  7. Brooding Chicks • Start chicks at 90 to 92oF • Lower temp ~ 5oF each week thereafter • Use a solid brooder guard if you have a large area you are raising the chicks • Feed and water chicks immediately after they are placed in brooding area • Provide access to food and fresh water at all times!

  8. Brooder Ideas

  9. Just right Too hot Too cold Too drafty

  10. Importance of Water • Water is the forgotten nutrient • It must be clean, and cool at all times • Don’t create a soup of bacteria! • Adding vitamins or electrolytes in the water is also very helpful

  11. Ambient Environment • In addition to air temperature • Don’t allow birds to be exposed to air drafts • But. . . Birds need fresh air • Keep birds dry • Keep pens (floor) dry

  12. How It Used to Be Done in 1926

  13. Do we need to reinvent the wheel? • NO! How it used to be done is not bad • However, we do know much more about birds today than anyone has ever known, . . . We can and should utilize this information!

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