There are currently a total of 20 articles in this section.

Breeding: here are a range of articles giving background knowledge to setting up breeding pens and the results you can expect.

An old article from 1938 - breeding tips by H. Duncan, written on October 1st, 1938

Colour breeding charts - a few examples of possible colour crosses - if that's what you want to get into - this article may be of some help

Egg to chick - how the chick forms at each day in the process of incubation

Egg Laying Problems - Phillip J. Clauer looks into a few possible reasons as to why your birds may have suddenly stopped laying

Line breeding basics - a diagram example of how breeding is carried out to produce generations of the same family

The works of Gregor Mendel - Mendel was an Austrian monk who performed experiments on garden peas to understand inheritance patterns, this article gives a very brisk walk through what he found and can be applied to poultry breeding

Genetics: a range of articles startng at a basic level introducing the world of poultry genetics.

The genetics pages now have their own section found by clicking here

Incubation / Hatching: articles ranging from common problems to how a chick forms in an egg.

Build Your Own Incubator - from a fridge! as described by Sara and Andrew Cooke

Candling Eggs - a good article with plenty of pictures showing how to candle eggs

Dry Incubation - an article by Bill Worrel giving his past experience and tips

Embryo Diagram - embryo development at each day of incubation

Hatching - some good pointers about how to successfully incubate eggs

Hatching and Brooding Small Numbers of Chicks - this article runs through the things to do when hatching only a small number of chicks, covering humidity, temerature and so on

Incubating Eggs - pointers on how to handle hatching eggs, tips on temperature and more

Incubation Problems List - if something goes wrong hatching, see if the symptom can be found here

Incubation Times for Various Birds - this article shows the incubation times for all main species of poultry breeders incubate

Incubation Guide - a good all round guide to incubation written by Hatch-It Incubators

Incubation Tips - a good alround article which is based on using the Hoverbator incubator, but it goes into detail on positioning etc

Process of a Chick Hatching - a nice diagram showing the formation of a chick

Transform Your Fridge Into an Incubator - a great article written by a visitor to this site about how they transformed their old fridge into a fully working incubator

Care of Chicks: articles ranging from common problems to how a chick forms in an egg.

Brooding of Domestic Fowl