Usually, hens start to defend (give a signal call to lay) when they reach six to eight months. Therefore, it is advisable to prepare nests as early as five months of age. When the hen starts laying and reaches three eggs, the farmer is advised to remove each egg that exceeds three every day it is laid and mark it with a date or number using a pencil to make the hen continue to lay with the goal of reaching 15 to 20 eggs. The eggs that are removed should be placed in a dry, ventilated container, it is also good to put sand in the container.
Make sure the following.
The pointed part should be at the bottom and the wide part should be at the top.
Store in a well-ventilated and heat-resistant place.
Eggs should not remain in the storage for more than two weeks from the day they are first laid.
EGG INCUBRATION AND HATCHING OF CHICKENS
Artificial incubation and hatching – This system uses incubators to hatch large numbers of eggs, between 50 and 500 at a time. The machines used for modern incubation can also be used for traditional incubation.
Natural incubation and hatching
SELECTING EGGS FOR HATCHING.
This is also important to consider. It is good to choose eggs for hatching so that unsuitable eggs can be sold or used at home for food. Eggs for hatching should have the following characteristics:
They should not be dirty, they should be clean ,
they should not have cracks ,
they should come from a hen that was laid by a rooster
, they should not be small or large, but should be of average size according to the shape of the hen.
They should not be round like a ball and they should not have very sharp edges.
They should not have been left for more than two weeks since they were laid.
They should not have been stored in a warm place.
PREPARING A LAYING HENS
Along with these preparations, consider laying no more than 15 eggs, it is also good not to less than 12. Hens that are expected to lay must be carefully examined before laying to ensure that they are free of lice, mites, etc. The presence of these insects makes hens uncomfortable and restless in their nests. This situation causes fewer chicks to hatch.
Now you need to do the following: –
Spray insecticide inside the nest.
Also spray the hen that is expected to lay
eggs. Place the eggs in the nest with your hands covered with ash to avoid odor as the hen may smell them.
It is best to do this work of preparing a hen who wants to lay eggs at night. It should also be noted that hens usually incubate their eggs for 21 days.
ALSO LEARN HOW TO INSTALL MANY EGGS NATURALLY.
If you have many hens laying at the same time, it is better to make them incubate and not release them together.
What you need to do is choose the eggs to incubate starting with the last egg to be laid.
You can arrange for more than one of your hens to start incubating together and get many chicks at once when the first hen starts incubating. Give her wet or modern chicken eggs because the hen incubates until the eggs hatch, so if you give her eggs without seeds, she will stay there for a long time until the chicks hatch.
IMPLEMENTATION.
When the hen lays eggs every day, mark the number or date with the day she laid them. When
three eggs arrive, remove them and replace them with fresh or modern eggs while continuing to mark the eggs that are laid every day.
Once the hen starts laying, add fake eggs to reach 8 to 10.
Do this for each hen that lays until you can find a number that will give you many chicks at the same time.
Lay all the hens eggs on the same day by removing the fake eggs and placing them with real eggs at night.
IMPORTANT:
Hatching eggs should not be handled with bare hands and should not be exposed to odors of kerosene, perfumes, etc.
ALSO LEARN TO IDENTIFY EGGS WITH SEED AND THOSE WITHOUT SEED.
The farmer can identify eggs with seeds and those without seeds on the seventh day after starting to lay them if he weighs the eggs using a specially made box and a bright flashlight in a dark room. This will enable the farmer to use the seedless eggs for family food or to sell them.
