What's going on everyone?

What's going to be?

What's going to be?

What's going to be?

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast and of Real Hands of

O C is back and she'll be here for the whole week. She is an urban homesteader, a chicken

owner and the author of The Beginners Guide to Raising Chickens,

and also just a friend that we initially met on Instagram and we really connected and have a lot of similarities in our approach to things and some differences which is great.

So Anne we're talking today about how to hatch chicks.

We talked about yesterday how it's hard to even get them and you've been hatching a lot of them and

I first of all haven't own chickens yet but of course then that means I haven't

also hatched my own and so I'm curious just for myself you know how do you even go about that

process? Well there's a natural process which involves a hen which

you would need a hen to do that or you can do a more artificial process which is hatching via an incubator that's designed to hatch chickens.

So first, if you do, when you have a hen they go through this hormonal shift where they suddenly want to make babies and not all hens have this some breeds are more predisposition to having it so when they

have that and they you know want to have babies it's called brudiness or they go brudy

and they just want to sit on eggs and hatch and so you just if you want that to happen you

need to give them fertile eggs and they'll sit on it they'll control the temperature

they'll control the humidity, they'll control the humidity, and then approximately on average,

21 days later, they'll pop out some babies.

So that's how, you know, in a nutshell nutshell the natural process happens. If you are doing it more

artificially it's like say I don't want all my hands to go broody because when

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