Hatching Quality Chicks
Dr Tom Smith, Jr., extension poultry science specialist from Mississippi State University, introduces the inexperienced hatchery person to the various types of incubators and their operation for the hatching of chicken, turkey, waterfowl, game bird and peafowl eggs. The text is directed at the incubation of chicken eggs but the basic principles are the same for eggs of all domestic fowl, and changes in incubation procedures (when appropriate) are listed.