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Kōrero: Poultry industry

Chicken hatchery

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Chicken hatchery

The hatching of chickens in an incubator is a carefully controlled operation with set conditions for temperature, humidity and ventilation, and regular egg turning. Chickens take 21–25 days to hatch under these conditions.

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Poultry Industry Association of New Zealand

Permission of the Poultry Industry Association of New Zealand must be obtained before any re-use of this material.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Vanessa Wintle rāua ko Stacey Lepper, Poultry industry – Growth of the egg industry, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/17298/chicken-hatchery (accessed 4 June 2026).

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