Backyard Chickens & Coturnix Quail: Incubating Hatching Eggs and Chicken Breeding

Not All Eggs Are Created Equal — Egg Selection for Hatching

April 16, 2026·48 min
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send us an email and be sure to include your address so we can respond! Think you can just toss any egg in the incubator? Think again. In this episode of Poultry Nerds, we go nest box to incubator — sorting real eggs by weight, shape, shell quality, and cleanliness to show you exactly what to set and what to skip. We cover large fowl, quail, and celadon eggs, break down double yolkers, torpedo shapes, golf balls, and the perfect 67-gram specimen. Plus — a listener question about noisy rooster...

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