Sentence examples for incubate eggs from inspiring English sources

There are many pros and cons using a hen to incubate eggs rather than an incubator.

Some varieties of cichlids and catfishes incubate eggs in their mouths.

Before them, the Central Park Zoo had Georgey and Mickey, two female Gentoo penguins who tried to incubate eggs together.

Similarly, male emperor penguins that incubate eggs in anticipation of the female's return only reach a critical level of hunger depletion when their partner is expected back.

Brooding, in zoology, pattern of behaviour of certain egg-laying animals, especially birds, marked by cessation of egg laying and readiness to sit on and incubate eggs.

In Ukraine, his company is pursuing an aggressive strategy to control production "from field to fork", growing its own grain to feed its chickens and installing facilities to incubate eggs, slaughter animals and package meat.

Non-incubated eggs experience greater microbial growth than incubated eggs and are more prone to infection by microbes (Cook et al. 2003, 2005a; Shawkey et al. 2009).

At late incubation, however, all unincubated eggs were wet and all incubated eggs were dry (Fisher's exact test, n = 12, p<0.01).

Females play the main part in incubating eggs, and males can often be seen guarding the nests during incubation.

Began flirtation on May 16th, continued it while own mate was busy incubating eggs.

The pen was clearly on the nest, incubating eggs, with the cob on guard only a few yards away.