Anyone hatching April 5-7 or so? ALL DONE, READY TO BE LOCKED

[bburn]

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I ordered one on EBAY this AM with a buy it now of $5.45 and free shipping. It was a pediatric stethoscope, which I figured would work well because the smaller head would fit on the egg better.

And probably it would.....I was in a really big hurry to get one before lockdown. Now I am going to have to hide it along with the 8 assorted thermometers before my DH comes back from working out of state!

 

[Cynthia12]

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Where did you get your Nankins'? Do have some of your own..or did you order them from somewhere??

 

[snazzyboots]

we lost another one. down to 10 now. how do you calculate percent hatch rate. from the number set or the number that went to lock down? i set 29. 20 went to lock down several didn't hatch but were developed. some hatched but prob shouldn't have and died. the 10 look good tho.

 

[snazzyboots]

on one of the most recent little ones it has a swelling on it's right shoulder. very soft. feels like fluid. it is doing well and eating and running around. anyone have any ideas? causes?

 

[speckledhen]

Hatch rate counts all those that started to develop at all and you'd know that by blood rings or deceased embryos. I think I explained hatch rate somewhere in this thread or my other thread. It's here:



Eggs that never started to develop do not count against your hatch rate, only eggs that started and quit.

If out of 86 total eggs, 10 never even started, then my total to start from is 76. To get the hatch rate, divide 44 by 76, which is about a 58% hatch rate.

Fertility rate is different. Then, I do count all the eggs. Divide 44 by 86 and the fertility rate for the incubation is 51%. That means that 58% of the 51% that were fertile actually hatched.

 

[snazzyboots]

thanks speckled hen. i thought you had said that somewhere but i wasn't sure. i didn't keep track as well as i should have but there are 10 out of about 25 or so that developed. next time i will track it better. the incubator is clean and drying to get ready for round two. i ordered more eggs last night!!!!

e i'm lucky my hubby is so understanding

 

[Delmar]

Mrs just found Myrtle laying over backward in the waterer. She is gone. her beak was out of the water, so she didn't drown.

 

[latebloomer]

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i'm so sorry delmar, that really stinks.

just took my four week olds outside and lost one, been looking for three hours.

no matter how young they are, we love them so very much.

 

[newbiechickenowner]

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So sounds like my fertility rate is almost 100%! Good boys! Because, that first group, I started with 29 and only took out ONE that didn't start out (just yolk, never started the vessels, little eye bouncing around at candling!) And, this last group that I set, I put in 38 and again, only ONE that was still just a yolk at day 7.

Out of the 29, all were doing fine at day 7 and 10. Then, by day 18, I had to cull 4 and by lockdown, I had pulled out 7 total. So, 29 to start, pulled one that wasn't fertile, then 7 more before lockdown....lockdown had 21 and 19 hatched. SO...about 50% if I go from the 29....
HOping my next goes a bit better.

 

[speckledhen]

I'm more concerned with hatch rates and fertility rates if I'm incubating eggs from my own birds. With shipped eggs, all bets are off.

For some reason, my fertility rate calculation doesn't look right today, LOL. I must have been bleary eyed from no sleep. It's supposed to be:

% fertility = number of fertile eggs/number of total eggs produced or set.

So in that one, you'd include all the ones that hatched plus all the ones that were quitters divided by the total set. Argh! I can't think today! Quitters were fertile and ones that hatched were obviously fertile so those add up to fertility rate. I think. Ok, folks, don't quote me today at all.

I just think that folks are being disappointed in their hatch rates because they're including all the eggs that could not possibly have hatched because they weren't fertile in the first place. Just don't count those when you do the division. If you're a breeder, you're interested in fertility rate and if you are just hatching from someone else's eggs, you're more inclined to want to calculate your hatch rate.