Essential Support Equipment for Breeding with Broody Hens (Brinsea Candler, Incubator & Brooder)

We use the natural broody tendencies of our Buff Orpington chickens to incubate, hatch and raise chicks. The advantage with broody hens is once hatched they are amazing at raising chicks to maturity BUT during incubation and hatching broody hens don't always behave in a textbook way. When this happens it's essential to have some back-up equipment to ensure that the eggs and potentially any hatching or newly hatched chicks survive. Over the years we have successfully used Brinsea equipment to keep partially incubated eggs alive to full term and to save many chicks who otherwise would have died. In this video we take you through the 3 pieces of Brinsea equipment that we use, explain what they are, how we use them and why we bought Brinsea products to begin with. Brinsea have supplied new equipment for this video but we are long-term users of Brinsea equipment with our first purchase years ago being the Ovation 28 Advance Incubator - a great bit of kit! You can purchase all the products you see in this video direct from us at www.englishcountrylife.com We breed Buff Orpington chickens and have kept them for a number of years. We grow our own food on our smallholding and endeavour to be self-sufficient. Subscribe to see more of our life including self sufficiency videos, recipes, garden tips and chicken keeping. Visit our website www.englishcountrylife.com to see our branded merchandise which includes t-shirts and handcrafted pottery mugs. Contact us for availability at [email protected] Visit our Amazon Storefront to see suggestions for items we love and use on the smallholding including all of the Brinsea equipment you see in this video as well as chicken keeping tools: https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/english... Opening Music credits: Artist = Earth Tree Healing Composer = Claudine West Website = https://claudinewestmusic.com/earth-t... We earn commission from Amazon, Nestera & Omlet Affiliate Links