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Permaculture Chicken: Incubation Handbook
Anna HessHatch healthy homegrown chicks!
The Permaculture Chicken Incubation Handbook walks beginners through perfecting the incubating and hatching process so they can enjoy the exhilaration of the hatch without the angst of dead chicks. 92 full color photos bring incubation to life, while charts, diagrams, and tables provide the hard data you need to accomplish a hatch rate of 85% or more.
Topics include:
How chickens fit into a permaculture system
Reasons to incubate your own eggs
The mother hen option
Choosing the best eggs, with information on seasons, parentage, egg shape, and shell quality
Storing and marking eggs
What to expect when buying mail order eggs
Choosing the best incubator
The basics of incubation: time, temperature, humidity, turning, etc.
Pros and cons of dry incubation, including ways to calculate egg weight loss
Candling eggs
What to do during temperature spikes and power outages
Preparing for the hatch, hatching, and dry off period
When and how to help chicks out of the shell
How to tell whether unhatched eggs are alive
Calculating percent viable eggs, hatch rate, and survivability
Troubleshooting incubation problems, including tips on autopsying eggs and a dichotomous key to pinpoint causes
Diagnosing, preventing, and dealing with hatch-related ailments like wry neck, spraddle leg, and more
Caring for sick chicks and knowing when and how to euthanize
Basic needs of chicks after hatching: temperature, food, and water
Housing chicks, with information on outdoor brooders
Pasturing very young birds
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