POULTRY LABORATORY GUIDE 15 



EXERCISE V 



Collection, Selection, and Keeping Eggs 

 FOR Incubation 



Eggs for incubation should be regularly col- 

 lected, carefully selected, and properly kept 

 previous to being placed in the incubator. In 

 order to impress upon the beginner the impor- 

 tance of the above facts, each student should be 

 allowed to collect and select the eggs from his 

 own coop or coops, keeping always in mind the 

 following facts or rules : — 



Eggs for incubation should be selected only 

 from birds which are properly mated, housed, 

 fed, and which are strong, vigorous, and healthy. 

 They should rarely be saved from pullets, but 

 preferably from yearUng hens. The eggs should 

 be collected daily, the number of the pen from 

 which they are taken being written with pencil 

 on one end. If they are from trap-nested stock, 

 the number of the hen should also appear on the 

 egg. In handling and carrying the eggs, care 

 must be taken not to crack or severely shake 

 them, the former ruining the eggs for incubation 

 purposes, and the latter causing a partial break- 

 ing or rupturing of the contents. 



The eggs should next be taken to the storing- 



