孵化

Meanings

1. Noun, Suru verb, Transitive, Intransitive

   incubation; hatching

• めんどりは孵化ふかするまで卵たまごを抱いだきます。

  The hen sits on her eggs until they hatch.

• 卵たまごから孵化ふかしたてのメダカにはどのようなえさをあげればよろしいでしょうか？

  What should you feed killifish that have just hatched from their eggs?

• 孵化ふか後ごまもないヒナは、産毛うぶげが濡ぬれていますが、２時間じかんもすると乾かわいてフワフワになります。

  The down of chicks that have just hatched is damp, but after two hours it dries out and becomes fluffy.

• ４月しがつに孵化ふかした雛ひよこも５ヶ月かげつになった。身体しんたいの大おおきさは親鳥おやどりとほぼ同おなじ、オス鳥とりのとさかが少すこし小ちいさいぐらいか。

  The chicks hatched in April have also become 5 months old. Their bodies are about the same size as their parents, about the only difference is that the roosters have smaller crests than their father.

• 鶏にわとりの頭数とうすうを、卵たまごから孵化ふかする前まえに数かぞえておくのは非常ひじょうに賢明けんめいなやり方かただ。何故なぜなら、鶏にわとりというのは無闇矢鱈むやみやたらに動うごき回まわるものだから、正確せいかくに数かぞえることなど出来できない。

  People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.