Technological features of the incubation of hunting pheasant eggs.

  • O. Korzh
  • D. Frolov
Keywords: pheasant, еgg, incubation, eggs output, tray

Abstract

The incubation process acts as one of the main preconditions for obtaining high-quality young birds for further effective cultivation. Therefore, finding and improving both modes of incubation and incubation itself deserves the most special attention. Some factors that influence the incubation process (differences in temperature, humidity, air velocity) can lead to a reduction in young animals and their quality. So it is important to study the influence of structural features and modes of incubation of different incubation on effectiveness of incubation of wild bird’s eggs.The study was conducted on pheasant farm of hunting economy “Cold Mountain” in 1993–1994 years and on the farm of Hunting club “Skif” in Kalanchak regional public organization in 2010–2012 years. During the research it was found that the highest percentage of chick’s growing were obtained by incubating the eggs in the incubator “Universal-55”. The worst results were obtained by incubation the eggs in the incubator “Inka-450”, that can testify its fundamental unsuitability for incubating the eggs of hunting pheasant.It should be noted the major structural differences of incubators “Nest-3000” and “Inka-450”, which affect temperature, gas exchange and wet conditions. First of all it refers the availability of wooden trays that significantly violate gas exchange and reduce humidity near the eggs. As a result, it is often observed only the growing of eggs, which are in the central trays and witch do not touch the wooden boards. Among the structural deficiencies of the incubator “Inka-450”, it can also be indicated a low precision of temperature measurement (only one thermometer for the whole box) and imperfect mechanism for maintaining humidity.Thus, the most successful structure for pheasant egg’s incubation has the incubator “Universal-55”. At the same time, a large amount of this incubator makes it unclaimed in the small pheasant farm, which today are the basis of pheasant breeding in Ukraine. Incubators of company “Inca” are completely structurally unsuitable for incubation of hunting pheasant’s eggs and cannot be recommended for use in any pheasant farm. Incubators of company “Nest” can be considered quite acceptable to use, but the need some structural improvements.

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Biological sciences