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2. Incubator (egg) - Wikipedia

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   A modern egg incubator. An incubator is a device simulating avian incubation by keeping eggs warm at a particular temperature range and in the correct humidity with a turning mechanism to hatch them. The common names of the incubator in other terms include breeding / hatching machines or hatchers, setters, and egg breeding / equipment. [1]

3. In-ovo sexing - Wikipedia

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   The hatching egg is examined with by light beam, with a hyperspectral measuring technology the sex is determined on the basis of the calculated light spectrum. This method works for hatching eggs from sex-linked breeds where male and female birds have different color plumage, all males white-feathered and all females brown-feathered for example ...

4. Egg incubation - Wikipedia

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   Egg incubation is the process by which an egg, of oviparous (egg-laying) animals, develops an embryo within the egg, after the egg's formation and ovipositional release. Egg incubation is done under favorable environmental conditions, possibly by brooding and hatching the egg.

5. Egyptian egg oven - Wikipedia

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   Egyptian egg oven. An Egyptian egg oven or Egyptian mamal is an oven for hatching eggs by incubation using artificial heat. [1] Manmade hatching ovens in Egypt date back to the 4th century BC. [2] Although using old processing methods, they were considered effective at hatching chickens, especially in comparison to other techniques of the time. [3]

6. Chick sexing - Wikipedia

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   Chicken sexing is practiced mostly by large commercial hatcheries to separate female chicks or "pullets" (destined to lay eggs for commercial sale) from the males or "cockerels" (most of which are killed within days of hatching because they are irrelevant to egg production).

7. Chick culling - Wikipedia

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   In Canada, the National Farm Animal Care Council (Conseil National Pour Les Soins Aux Animaux D'Elevage) publishes the Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Hatching Eggs, Breeders, Chickens and Turkeys, [23] (2016, amended from time to time), which is mentioned in the Health of Animals Regulations section 72.5(1) [24] as the ...