Word: durr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demand for the more prolific egg layer has required more and more automation. Near Atlanta, Ga., Layer Breeder Roy Durr produced 500,000 chickens last year trying to keep up with orders for layers. He puts the eggs in special incubators that vastly improve on the maternal solicitude of real hens. A hen often forgets to turn her eggs (causing the membrane lining to adhere to the shell and killing the fetus), or in hot dry weather leaves the nest and lets them dry out. Durr's mechanical mother turns each egg every hour, and when a thermometer warns...