INCUBATION AT HOME. By Michael Roberts. The Gold Cockerel Series. Edited by Richard Roadnight.

1996 4th edition. 8vo paperback (148 x 211mm). Pp65. B/w photographs and line illustrations.

"A practical guide for using small incubators in the home or classroom". Subjects covered include: History; Incubators - till air, fan-assisted, kit form, polystyrene, list of manufacturers; Preparation - cleaning and sterilisation, location, thermometers, humidity, electricity and alarms, laying, nest boxes, collection, to clean or not to clean, selection of eggs, storage, transport; Incubation - test and warm up, setting, candling, checking development, hatching; Sexing, feather sexing, colour sexing, egg weight, effect of incubation temperature; Rearing - electric hen, ceramic buld heater; Where did I go wrong? - clear eggs, embryo dying, dead in shell, overdue hatching, early hatching, egg-transmitted diseases, timing; School teacher, classroom and projects; The Egyptian experience.