This poultry egg incubation calculator or hatch date calculator will help you estimate the hatch date for the eggs of various domestic poultry birds, such as chicken, duck, quail, turkey, goose, guinea fowl, pheasant, partridge, pigeon, peafowl, swan, emu and ostrich. All you need to do is enter the date and time when the eggs were (will be) set in the egg incubator and select the type of bird from the drop-down menu. Click the Submit button and the calculator will then display the following information:
- First candle date, when you can check the fertility and development of the embryos
- Lockdown date, when you should stop turning the eggs and increase the humidity
- The estimated hatch start date, when you should expect the first signs of hatching
- Number of days left until hatching.