Help Families Support Themselves Through the Power of Eggs and Solar

Your donation of a starter flock of 10-50 chicks AND an egg-hatching machine powered by solar energy will help farmers like Babilata keep eggs warm, expedite the hatching process and expand their business. Your gift:

• Provides eggs and protein for nourishment
• Boosts income through sales of extra eggs and offspring
• Ensures security for generations through Passing on the Gift
• Farmers save money by avoiding high electricity bills and fuel costs for generators
• Encourages climate-smart agriculture and lowers carbon emissions
• Gives farmers have reliable power to raise healthy chicks

With some hatcheries able to nurture 1,000 eggs at a time, the hatchery leaves chickens free to produce more eggs.

Children can enjoy fresh eggs every day. Eggs that remain in the solar-powered hatchery grow into chicks the farmer can sell.

Heifer also trains and supports community animal health service providers and hatchery operators, who work in partnership with farmers and boost the rural economy.

PLUS … your impact will be magnified even further through our tradition of Passing on the Gift®, where families promise to pass on the first female offspring of their animal to another family in need.

Babilata and Sanjay’s Hatchery

Babilata and Sanjay’s poultry business includes a small-scale, solar-powered hatchery. The couple buys eggs from local poultry producers and keeps them warm in an incubator attached to a solar panel. When the chicks peck their way out of their shells, they are cared for and sold to nearby poultry rearers, who raise them and keep the supply in the market — and nutrition and income for their families — intact.

Babilata’s small-scale hatchery is helping backyard poultry producers like her scale their poultry business, increase their household income and improve the nutrition of their families.

• Starter Flock of Chicks (10-50)
• Egg-Hatching Machine
• Solar Panels
• Affordable Electricity
• Improved Environment
• Nutrition
• Self-Reliance
• Steady, Dependable Income
• Training
• Supplies