Description
Incubation – A Guide to Hatching and Rearing, by Katie Thear
Incubation – A Guide to Hatching and Rearing covers the history of incubation and hatching. This book is suitable for beginners as well as the more experienced. The Hatching section includes information about the egg, breeders, the incubator, the principles of incubation, incubation practice and home-made incubators. The rearing section includes the brooder, the broody hen, homemade brooders and chick assessment. Several different species covered – chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl, quail, pheasants, partridges, peafowl, ostriches, emus, rheas and parrots. It also includes a what went wrong? section. The book is up to date with appropriate regulations and sources of information.
