INCUBATION AT HOME
BY
MICHAEL ROBERTS

This excellent book tells you all about incubation methods, incubators, problem tables and everything to do with incubating quail, bantam, chicken, guinea fowl and all types of poultry eggs.

The contents of the book are as follows:-

introduction
history
incubators (still air incubators, fan assisted incubators, kit form incubators, polystyrene incubators and list of incubator manaufacturers)
preparation
cleaning and sterilisation
location
thermometers
humidity
records
electricity and alarms
laying
nest boxes
collection
to clean or not to clean
selection of eggs
storage
transport
incubation - test and warm-up, setting, turning eggs, candling, checking egg development, the development of a fertilised hens egg at 21 days, series of photographs
hatching
sexing - feather sexing, colour sexing, egg weight, effect of incubation temperature
rearing - electric hen, ceramic bulb heater
where did i go wrong - clear eggs, embryo dying at an early stage, embryo dying mid-term, dead in shell, overdue hatching, early hatching, chick symptoms, sticky, crooked toes, splayed legs, star gazers, egg transmitted diseases, timing
school teacher, classroom and projects
index
the egyptian experience

This book will give you all the knowledge you will need to successfully incubate and hatch your eggs.

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