What is the best setup for hatching chicken eggs?

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You are correct about the Calcium D.A., I use cuddle bones. I've never used sugar water though.

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All those perfect babies were not fed off though, I gave them away as pets. It's tough for me personally to raise something like them and then feed them off. I have fed off ones that did not hatch successfully though.

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chickens are very successful breeders. you can incubate them yourself or you can let the mother do it themselves. i have never tried the incubation method, my family has raised chickens for years and we actually let them roam around the yard and do there own thing. however not everyone can do this. the sugar water just seems to help them get up and moving on there own faster. mother chickens are very caring. But they breed in seasonal cycles where i am from. about two batches of chicks a year. what we always use is oyster shell to strengthen the shells. they sell it at farmer feeder stores. but then again i am from the country you normally cannot just find this stuff anywhere. but remember give them privacy or they will eat thier eggs. and also one rooster only or it will eat the eggs for eat the newborn chicks once they hatch. that is if you give them a natural breeding environment.

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I realize we are talking about two different methods and chickens and quails. I think he just wants to hatch them. Quail enclosures take up very little space if he wanted to actually breed them (inside even), and that's where i'm drawing my knowledge from. The mother chickens will turn their own eggs though. Domesticated quail will not hatch their own eggs to save their species from extinction.