The Chick Hatcher is scientifically designed to give as near ideal conditions as possible. Statistics show that under ideal conditions, about 75% of fertile eggs hatch successfully. If you make mistakes, your chick will die inside the egg. From the moment you place an egg in your Chick Hatcher, you will be partly responsible for the creation of a life. PREPARING YOUR CHICK HATCHER IT’S UP TO YOU The creation of life is a complex and mysterious process. She is very careful with them and won’t let anyone else touch her eggs. She keeps them warm by spreading her soft feathers over them. When a hen has babies, she sits on the eggs until they hatch. Remember, the Chick Hatcher takes the place of a mother hen. The mother hen avoids this by changing the position of her eggs. When the egg lies too long in one position, the white separates and allows the yolk to float through, forcing the germ against the shell and killing it. This is because the egg yolk tends to float toward the shell. KEEP YOUR YOLK IN PLACE! A mother hen reaches underneath her body and turns her eggs frequently with her beak. Experienced poultry men never expect to have every egg in the incubator hatch. If an egg gets cold or too warm, the embryo won’t develop correctly. Sometimes a perfectly good egg won’t hatch because it has been turned wrong end up, or shaken. DON’T SCRAMBLE YOUR EGG! A fertile egg is so delicate that it can be ruined by small mistakes. If the egg gets bumped accidently, or if it is moved too suddenly, the soft white around the embryo comes between it and the shell and cushions the shock. The egg white is a cradle for the growing embryo. That is why the germ spot is always attached to the side of the yolk. It gets its nourishment from the yolk of the egg. Before the egg is hatched, the baby is called an “embryo.” The embryo must have food while it is growing. The germ spot in the fertile egg is the part that becomes the baby. A hen can lay eggs all her life without laying a fertile one, for in order to produce a fertile egg, a hen must have a husband. WHAT IS A FERTILE EGG? Before it can produce a baby chick, an egg must be fertile. That is, there are thousands of tiny holes in it, so small that it is impossible to see them.
The shell, that looks as though it were solid, is actually porous. All of these parts are kept in shape by membranes-very thin layers of transparent “skin.” At the large end of the egg is an air pocket, filled with oxygen. Next comes the yolk, then four separate layers of white. This is the small, rather tough white spot you find in our breakfast egg. When a hen lays an egg she is very proud, and she tells everybody about it in a loud voice: “Cut-cut-cut-caddaw! Cut-cut-cut-caddaw!” This is her way of saying: ‘See what I’ve done! Am I not smart?” And actually, when you stop to think how an egg is made, it’s quite an accomplishment to be able to lay one. Chick-Bator Tips THE STORY OF THE EGG Chickens have fathers and mothers just as people do.
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