Explore: Incubator Chicks

An incubator is a device used to grow and maintain microbiological cultures or cell cultures. The incubator maintains optimal temperature, humidity and

individual chicks under differing farm conditions. Incubating different species of birds at the same time is possible within the same incubator. In industrial

in the hands of mothers and midwives. Some baby incubators, similar to those used for hatching chicks, were devised in the late nineteenth century. In

The megapodes, also known as incubator birds or mound-builders, are stocky, medium-large, chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet in the family

Chick culling or unwanted chick killing is the process of separating and killing unwanted (male and unhealthy female) chicks for which the intensive animal

tail feathers, it can fly strongly within a day. Chicks have no contact with adults or other chicks; they tend to hatch one at a time, and birds of any

hens, while the male chicks are culled. It is estimated that 7 billion one-day-old male chicks are killed each year through chick culling. By enabling

recognize their chicks by imprinting on cues from the first chick that hatches. This allows mothers to distinguish their chicks from parasitic chicks. The peregrine

study set a milestone, showing that chick embryos could survive up to 18 days in opened shells within this incubator. The specific improvements from Dunn

each chick consuming an average of 58 Colorado potato beetles and 472 beetles daily. A pair's chicks ate 7,808 beetles over three weeks. Chicks' bright