RICE ONE! Woman Hatches Chicks In Rice Cooker

Story By:  Ana MarjanovicSub-EditorMichael Leidig, Agency:  Newsflash

A Chinese woman has developed a nice sideline with her neighbours by using a rice cooker to hatch eggs.

Incubators are usually expensive but this bizarre device was put together with just a few pieces of kit.

The woman – identified only as Ms Li in local media and who hails from the city of Yichang in the Chinese province of Hubei – adapted with rice cooker with a sealed bag of warm water, some padding and a thermometer.

Woman hatches chicks in 21 days using rice cooker in Yichang, China. (784716024/AsiaWire)

After setting the cooker on the lowest setting she placed the eggs inside and left them to hatch.

In her online video of the technique, she says she has a 70 per cent success rate for hatched chicks, with 21 from 30 eggs.

Now she is getting requests from friends and neighbours to work her magic for them.

Woman hatches chicks in 21 days using rice cooker in Yichang, China. (784716024/AsiaWire)

She said: “I hadn’t expected it to work but the eggs were surplus because the hens were not sitting on them, and I was really surprised at how successful it was.”