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  2. Hatchery - Wikipedia

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    A hatchery is a facility where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions, especially those of fish, poultry or even turtles. [1][2][3] It may be used for ex situ conservation purposes, i.e. to breed rare or endangered species under controlled conditions; alternatively, it may be for economic reasons (i.e. to enhance food supplies or fishery ...

  3. Incubator (egg) - Wikipedia

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    A modern egg incubator. An incubator is a device simulating avian incubation by keeping eggs warm at a particular temperature range and in the correct humidity with a turning mechanism to hatch them. The common names of the incubator in other terms include breeding / hatching machines or hatchers, setters, and egg breeding / equipment.

  4. Broiler industry - Wikipedia

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    The environmental conditions in the hatcher are optimized to help the chicks hatch. As a commercial example, a large hatcher has capacity for 15,840 eggs, and measures about 3.3 metres by 1.8 metres. [25] Some incubators are single-stage (combining setter and hatcher functions), and entire trolleys of eggs can be rolled in at one time. [26]

  5. Milo Hastings - Wikipedia

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    The Hastings' forced-draft egg hatchery in Muskogee, OK, built in 1911. It contained 30,000 eggs in 150 square feet, unprecedented for the time. Hastings made three tries at building a large commercial forced-draft chicken incubator. In 1911 he built a 6000 egg incubator in Brooklyn, New York, for a Walter B. Davis.

  6. Broiler - Wikipedia

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    Poultry. Breed broiler is any chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) that is bred and raised specifically for meat production. [ 1 ] Most commercial broilers reach slaughter weight between four [ 2 ] and six weeks of age, although slower growing breeds reach slaughter weight at approximately 14 weeks of age. Typical broilers have white feathers and ...

  7. Poultry farming in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, chickens were raised primarily on family farms or in some cases, in poultry colonies, such as Judge Emery's Poultry Colony [1] until about 1960. Originally, the primary value in poultry keeping was eggs, and meat was considered a byproduct of egg production. [2] A United States Department of the Interior census in 1840 ...

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