Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks

Gail Damerow shows you how to incubate, hatch, and brood baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets. With advice on everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder, this comprehensive guide also covers issues like embryo development, panting chicks, and a variety of common birth defects. Whether you want to hatch three eggs or one hundred, you’ll find all the information you need to make your poultry-raising operation a success.Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks: Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guinea Fowl is written by Gail Damerow and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks are 9781603428781, 160342878X and the print ISBNs are 9781612120140, 1612120148.