Field Coverage

Korea-Relief Chickens Successfully Hatched

27 April 1952

A long-range program of rehabilitating Korea's egg and meat production got off to a good start when the United Nations Korea Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA) flew 70,000 white leghorn hatching eggs from Indiana, USA, to Korea. The eggs were placed in the warmth of Korean incubators where 52,000 hatched 21 days after arrival. The hatching eggs were donated by the Heifer project Committee and will be distributed to Korean farmers by the United Nations Civil Assistance Command (UNCACK).
Here: Hobart Creighton, Hatching expert from Indiana, examines the first hatch of baby chicks as Yu Soo Tong of the Pusan livestock station looks on.

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