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How it Works
To start, choose between chicken or quail chicks. Reach out by text with an approximate start date and to discuss availability.
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Once you reserve the kit, I will email the hatching guide, the hatching curriculum, and a personalized hatching schedule.
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The kits come with 12 quail eggs or 7 chicken eggs. Chicken eggs take 21 days to hatch. Quail eggs take 18 days to hatch. During incubation, your only responsibility is adding water to keep up the humidity, candling the eggs on day 9, and preparing the incubator three days before hatch. You will receive text reminders for important dates! I promise its easy.
Once the last chick has hatched, or 48 hours after the first chick hatches, you will move all the chicks to the brooder. Everything you need is included. You will return the equipment 28 days after pick up.
You may keep your chicks, but most people return them with the kit. It's really that easy!!!
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Ideas for preparing your children for the return.
We want to provide a fun and educational experience for families with our hatching rental kit. We know that sometimes it can be tough to say goodbye to the chicks at the end of the rental period. Setting expectations from the beginning can be helpful for any age child. If you are not sure you want to keep them, we recommend explaining to your children that the chicks belong to the farmer and that you family is helping to hatch and care for them. Children understand the concept of ownership and that some things, like the chicks, belong to other people. If you choose to keep them at the end, what a happy surprise for your children!
Rental kit
Your Hatching at Home Kit has everything you need to incubate, hatch, and care for your chicks at home or in your classroom!
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7 fertile chicken eggs (or 12 quail eggs) - contact us about breed choices
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Step-by-step hatching guide with videos
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Incubator with automatic egg turner
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Candler (to see chicks in the egg!)
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Brooder box (chick home)
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Bedding, absorbent pads
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Warming plate for chicks
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Feeder and waterer
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Chick starter feed
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Phone/text support
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K-6 curriculum