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Modern Tips for Hatching Eggs for Kids in Classrooms
February 27, 2024 · · Eggs & Meat, Kids' Corner

The rules have changed.
When I was a kid, hatching eggs for kids in schools was as simple as bringing in eggs and an incubator.

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Goose Incubation Guide
February 23, 2024 · · Geese

Goose incubation made easier with Rachele Paulus’s easy guides and clear directions.

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Hatching Eggs in an Incubator is Fun and Easy
February 20, 2024 · · Chickens 101, Eggs & Meat

If you’re considering hatching your own flock of backyard chickens here’s a few things you need to know for hatching eggs in an incubator successfully.
For embryos to develop correctly, eggs need to be kept at the right temperature, turned often and correctly positioned.

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3 Ways to Perform an Egg Freshness Test
October 24, 2022 · · Eggs & Meat

You may wonder why anyone would need to perform an egg freshness test since most people raising chickens for eggs check the nesting boxes every day.

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How to Produce the Best Fertile Hatching Eggs

Raising chicken eggs for hatching and incubating chicken eggs is something many of us do every year. Some of us set eggs for our own use at home and are not overly concerned about hatching rates.

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Buying a Carton of Eggs? Get the Labeling Facts First
March 31, 2022 · · Eggs & Meat

As backyard chicken keepers, we normally don’t have to worry about buying a carton of eggs from the store. We have the luxury of walking out to the coop and grabbing fresh eggs to use in our kitchen.

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How to Expand Your Flock with the Best Broody Hens

There are a couple of different ways you can expand your flock, but my go-to is using the best broody hens in my flock.

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Blood in Chicken Egg: What Does It Mean?

Learn what it means when you find blood in a chicken egg and all of the conditions that can cause blood spots to appear.

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Candling Eggs and Advanced Techniques for Artificial Incubation and Hatching

Candling eggs is an age-old technique that has modern applications in incubating and hatching poultry. After studying the incubation of many species and breeds it became clear to me that almost all eggs follow a similar process during incubation and hatching.

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Hatching Duck Eggs: When Fertile Eggs Don’t Hatch
May 6, 2021 · · Eggs & Meat

I recently ventured into hatching duck eggs. Learn why I’m allowing Margarita, our broody duck, to sit on fertile eggs.

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