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Kōrero: Poultry industry

Egg incubator

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Egg incubator

These eggs are being warmed in an early incubator. The development of incubators to artificially hatch eggs under controlled temperatures allowed the mass production of chickens. Hens did not have to be taken out of egg-laying for the three weeks needed to incubate the eggs.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: AANR 6329 60 A46715

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Vanessa Wintle rāua ko Stacey Lepper, Poultry industry – History and early developments, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/17283/egg-incubator (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Vanessa Wintle rāua ko Stacey Lepper, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.