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    Incubating Chicken Eggs: A Guide to Hatching Your Own Chickens
    Incubating Chicken Eggs: A Guide to Hatching Your Own Chickens
    Incubating Chicken Eggs: A Guide to Hatching Your Own Chickens
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    Incubating Chicken Eggs: A Guide to Hatching Your Own Chickens

    By Deborah Zappa

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    Hatching chicks is very rewarding and not difficult but there is a need to pay attention to details. Incubating Chickens gives all the detail needed to a successful hatch. Humidity and temperature are critical. There are three ways to measure humidity and you need to know which method your incubator uses to be able to read the results correctly.

    In this book you will learn
    o - how to set and monitor the incubation temperature
    o - what to expect if the temperature is a little too warm or a little too cool
    o - how to evaluate eggs that do not hatch.
    o - how to select eggs for hatching
    o - how to manage baby chicks right after hatching
    o - what equipment you will need and how to use it
    ... and Wow! so much more.
    If there are little chickies in your future, this is the handbook you need.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeborah Zappa
    Release dateFeb 21, 2015
    ISBN9781311227805
    Incubating Chicken Eggs: A Guide to Hatching Your Own Chickens
    Author

    Deborah Zappa

    Deborah has spent a lifetime of working with and raising animals including horses, goats, cattle, dogs and cats. In addition to owning and managing three successful businesses, she is now retired from 35 years in information technology. However, "retired" is somewhat relative since her current business, the Queen D Ranch in New Mexico, is a full-time commitment. At the Queen D, she and her high school sweetheart, David, manage several horses, a herd of American Blackbelly sheep and over 100 purebred chickens. They hatch several hundred chicks each month and work to keep improving the quality of their Rhode Island Reds, Ameraucana, Silver Laced Wyandotte and Delaware chickens.

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      Incubating Chicken Eggs - Deborah Zappa

      Incubating Chicken Eggs

      A Guide to Hatching Your Own Chickens

      Published by

      Deborah Zappa

      Queen D Ranch LLC

      Mesilla Park, New Mexico

      dave@queendranch.com

      http://queendranch.com

      http://queendranchgardening.com

      http://suburbanhomestead.net

      Copyright 2015 Deborah Zappa

      All Rights Reserved

      Original publication date: January 31, 2013

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Choosing Your Chickens

      Collecting the Right Eggs

      Setting Up Your Incubator

      Humidity

      Setting Up the Brooder

      Preparing for Incubation

      Incubation

      Candling Eggs

      Hatching

      Problems You May Encounter

      Eggs that Don't Hatch

      Bloody Eggs

      Splayed Legs

      Crossed Beak

      Other Problems

      Finishing Up

      Introduction

      The purpose of this book is to help you

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