EGGS HATCHED IN RICE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 August 1915, Page 3

EGGS HATCHED IN RICE.

Certain of the Chinese an Wie interior districts adjacent to Amoy employ a somewhat unusual method lor hatching both liens' and ducks' eggs. The breeder first takes a quantity of unhusked rice and roasts it, cooling it down by fanning or oy allowing the wind to blow through until it is lukewarm. He then spreads a 3-inch layer of the rice in a wooden tuu and places about 100 eggs thereon; another layer of rice, this second ami subsequent layers being but 2in. in thickness is spread over the eggs. Each tub has six layers of rice and five layers of eggs, so that there are 500 eggs m each tub Tiie rice is heated once every 2-1 hours, the eggs being taken out at such times. The chicks and ducklings are produced in 20 to 30 days.