Improving Hatching Rate

Bird Eggs: Improving Hatching Rate The most important aspects to consider when incubating eggs: Start with Fertilized Eggs: Unfertilized egg cannotbe hatched. Incubation should commense within one week of having been laid. After that, the viability of the egg decreases. When acquiring eggs, select good eggs: Remember that deformed, dirty or broken eggs have a … Read more

Mass Production of Chickens / Poultry

Issues with mass production Battery cages, which measure 18 by 20 inches and hold 5 to 11 hens each. Many animal rights advocates object to killing chickens for food or to the “factory farm conditions” under which they are raised. They contend that commercial chicken production often involves raising the birds in large, crowded rearing … Read more

Chronic Egg Laying

Chronic egg laying will deplete calcium, thus causing myriad health problems. One of which is the condition known as hypocalcaemia – With calcium at a low level, the uterine muscles are unable to contract and push the egg out resulting in egg binding.

Parrot Incubation Data

Incubation Data for (average size, clutch and incubation): For miscellaneous parrot species, scroll down … Data includes: Average Eggs per Clutch / Days of Incubation Amboina King Parakeets (Alisterus amboinensis) Antipodes Green Parrot or Antipodes Island Parakeet (Cyanoramphus unicolor) Barraband’s Parrot or Orange-cheeked Parrot (Pionopsitta barrabandi) Barred Parakeets (Bolborhynchus lineola) Blue-bellied Parrots / Purple-bellied Parrots … Read more

Infertile / Clear Eggs

Infertility in birds is the failure of a true pair to produce eggs with viable embryos. It differs from low hatchability where fertile eggs fail to hatch. Egg candling allows you to assess whether low hatchability or infertile eggs are the problems.