It takes a hen about 21 days.

It takes a hen about 21 days to hatch an egg into a chick. A fertilized egg is formed while the egg is inside the hen, at which point cell division begins, and after the egg leaves the hen's body, the outside temperature drops. The fertilized egg stops dividing and developing and becomes dormant, after which the hen makes the fertilized egg continue to divide through her own body temperature. Gradually develop into an embryo, after 21 days or so, the chick comes out of the shell and hatches out. Temperature is an important factor during incubation, and high or low temperatures can affect hatching.

Typically, hens can hold their nests 3 to 4 times a year, and groundhogs are better at holding their nests than caged chickens. It takes at least 20 days for a hen to hold a nest, and up to 40 days for a hen to hold a nest, and during this time the hen's appetite decreases, and the amount of eggs produced also decreases. Therefore, during the nesting period, hens need to be moved to a ventilated and bright place to grow, and put the hens into cold water to soak, and put a yellow sand mat into their nests.

Tips for raising chickens

Turkish chickens have a very good ability to adapt to the environment, the chickens should be free-range in two sides of the mountain slopes, the view of the soil is vast, the terrain is simple, easy to find, and if necessary, you can also set up fences to protect the chickens from being harmed. Able to stay away from residential land, farming area, so as not to disturb the residents of the living and farming caused unnecessary trouble.

Selecting the right chicks is a prerequisite for successful breeding, buying chicks at the end of February - early March, feeding them for five months, laying eggs in August, and reaching full production in October. At this time to maintain good husbandry management, so that the peak of egg production continued to the following year in February - March, is in the Spring Festival before and after the best-selling period.