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.
tsetse fly (tsÄtÂ´sÄ) , name for any of several bloodsucking African flies of the genus Glossina, and in the same family as the housefly.The larva of the tsetse fly develops inside the body of the mother until it is ready to pupate in the soil.A number of the 21 species can transmit to humans the trypanosomes that cause the Gambian and Rhodesian forms of African sleeping sickness (see trypanosomiasis).setse fly (tsÄtÂ´sÄ) , name for any of several bloodsucking African flies of the genus Glossina, and in the same family as the housefly.