Incubation & hatching guides
Species-by-species incubation charts and hatch troubleshooting, with figures drawn from university extension publications. Pick your species for the full day-by-day schedule.
By species
- Chicken99.5–100°F · 21 days · lockdown day 18
- Duck99.5–100°F · 26 days · lockdown day 25
- Muscovy Duck99.5–100°F · 35 days · lockdown day 31
- Goose99–99.5°F · 28 days · lockdown day 28
- Turkey99.5–100°F · 28 days · lockdown day 25
- Guinea Fowl100°F · 26 days · lockdown day 25
- Peafowl99–100°F · 28 days · lockdown day 26
- Coturnix Quail99.5–100°F · 17 days · lockdown day 15
- Bobwhite Quail99.5–100°F · 23 days · lockdown day 21
- Button Quail99.5–100°F · 16 days · lockdown day 14
- Pheasant99.5–100°F · 23 days · lockdown day 21
- Chukar99.5–100°F · 23 days · lockdown day 20
Troubleshooting
- My eggs didn't hatch on day 22 — what now?
- Incubation Humidity Too High or Too Low
- Preparing Shipped Hatching Eggs
- Candling Chicken Eggs Day by Day
- Blood Rings & Quitters on Candling
- Assisted Hatching: When and How
- Managing a Staggered Hatch
- Incubator Temperature Spike (Overheating)
- Power Outage During Incubation
- Sticky Chicks vs Shrink-Wrapped Chicks
- Chick Pipped but Not Zipping
- The First 48 Hours After Hatch
- Why Were My Hatch Rates Low?