Not All Eggs Are Created Equal — Egg Selection for Hatching
About this episode
This episode discusses the criteria for selecting eggs for hatching, including weight, shape, and shell quality.
send us an email and be sure to include your address so we can respond! Think you can just toss any egg in the incubator? Think again. In this episode of Poultry Nerds, we go nest box to incubator — sorting real eggs by weight, shape, shell quality, and cleanliness to show you exactly what to set and what to skip. We cover large fowl, quail, and celadon eggs, break down double yolkers, torpedo shapes, golf balls, and the perfect 67-gram specimen. Plus — a listener question about noisy rooster...
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Hosts: Jennifer Bryant, Carey Blackmon
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Books & works: Poultry Nerds
Places: celadon, golf balls, double yolkers, torpedo shapes
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