farm:about_incubation
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Resources Related to Incubation of Ducks and other Poultry
Pages at Mink Hollow
| Air Cells | Why is a poorly placed or ruptured air-cell a problem for hatching eggs? | |
| Birds, Eggs and Ducks | Questions and Answers | |
| Before You Get Your Eggs | Things to help you be properly prepared. | |
| Blow Out an Egg | Illustrated instructions for how to blow out a raw egg. | |
| Build Your Own Candler | Illustrated How-To Instructions | |
| Bumpy Shells | Why are bumpy shells a problem in incubation? | |
| Candling (name) | Why is it called Candling? | |
| Candling Eggs | On-Line Tutorial: How to Candle Eggs, Check it Out! Lots of Pictures & Movies! Take the Test! | |
| Cesareans on Eggs | Why don't cesarean sections work on hatching birds? | |
| Checklist | - to help to be ready | |
| Common Questions | Related to the Hatching Project | |
| Count Down to Hatch: Fresh Eggs | - what you'll need to get ready for your eggs | |
| Count Down to Hatch: Ready-to-Hatch Eggs | - what you'll need to get ready for your eggs | |
| Egg Age | How can we tell the age of an egg in water? | |
| Embryology Glossary | A glossary to help you understand the parts from the chart (above) that don't seem to be English. | |
| Glossary | Words associated with ducks and hatching and what they mean | |
| Handling Eggs | How should we handle a freshly laid egg? | |
| Hatch Dates | For the current year - 2008 | |
| Hatching As a School Project Handbook | A brief introduction to incubation and hatching | |
| In an Eggshell | (a description of how eggs are made and how they develop into ducklings) | |
| Incubation Temperatures | A list of incubation temperatures for different birds and at different stages of incubation | |
| Making an Egg | How is an egg made? | |
| Parts of an egg? | A picture with labels. | |
| Stages of Development (Embryology) | Chart describing the developmental stages of an embryo. Some of it even looks like English. | |
Pages Elsewhere
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 | This video segment from NOVA: “The Shape of Things” charts the development of a duck embryo, from its earliest stages just after fertilization, through cell replication and differentiation, to the final stage, emergence from the protection of the eggshell.. Length: 2m 43s; Size: 3.8 MB |
Research Papers
N. Sellier,, J.-P. Brillard, V. Dupuy and M. R. Bakst, Comparative Staging of Embryo Development in Chicken, Turkey, Duck, Goose, Guinea Fowl, and Japanese Quail Assessed from Five Hours After Fertilization Through Seventy-Two Hours of Incubation, Jpurnal of Applied Poultry Science, J APPL POULT RES 2006. 15:219-228
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