Hatchability in turkey eggs stored for 15 days prior to setting improves if the incubator temperature during the fi rst 7-14 days of incubation is increased (Christensen and colleagues in 2003).
Add stinky to the list of preferred fly aromas and a dirty chicken butt is a recipe for flystrike. After the fly eggs are laid on or in the skin, the larvae can hatch into maggots in less than 24 hours; the maggots then begin feeding on the skin, causing deep, painful sores that can become infected.
Chickens have 2 kinds of pigment that define their plumage color. These are the black (sometimes darkbrown/chocolate) pigment eumelanine, melanin for short, and the yellow/red pigment pheomelanine. The groundcolor of a chicken is pheomelanine.When this is absent it is called silver which looks white.The common silver-gene allows the expression of some red features like salmon breast or red shoulders. In wildtype chickens the groundcolor is yellow to brown, it is called gold.he groundcolor of a chicken is pheomelanine. When this is absent it is called silver which looks white. The common silver-gene allows the expression of some red features like salmon breast or red shoulders. In wildtype chickens the groundcolor is yellow to brown, it is called gold.