bought eggs- fertility expected?

[Megs]

hi all, im curious when you buy/sell hatching eggs what fertility % you expect? im asking as both a buyer and a seller!

I have told people who buy my eggs what fertility i have been getting (im hatching eggs from the same pens im selling some from as well), and supplying a few extra eggs per dozen (if i can) to account for not perfect fertility record (60-95% depending on the batch), if anyone contacts me who had worse fertility i would replace the dud eggs (selling locally only so makes this easy), i am actually trying to keep track of my sold eggs fertility as well but so far only about half the people have let me know how they did (o well nothing i can do). i recently bought my first hatching eggs from someone else, one breed was perfect fertility and one was about 30% (which i was quite dissapointed with).

 

[CountryBoy72]

Just bought eggs this morning and the lady told me what percentage she got from her last hatch. The only trouble with hatching is there are a lot of variables. One person may have good success and another may not. I just put 13 of her eggs in my incubator. Now we'll wait and see if I do the same,better or worse than she did. All you can do is tell them how your hatches are doing % wise. I would just sell them and charge them for a dozen. If they want to up the amount of chickens they want out of the hatch and based on your % , then they can buy more. Her chicken layed an egg for me when I arrived and she gave it to me too, along with the dozen I bought. A couple of extras is nice too. I will email the lady and tell her what % I get from her eggs. I am just buying eggs at the moment and might sell some in the future too.

 

[Red&Yellow]

I believe the OP meant fertility, not hatch rates....Well, of all my eggs that I've incubated (all 11 of them

every single one was fertile and developed. Mainly, you need enough rooster to go around...My roo, Red, has a large harem of about 20, or 23...(haven't counted in a while...) and he had 100% fertility.


What fertility to expect? 100%, else that roo ain't pulling his weight!!!!

 

[Paganbird]

Quote:
How do you know that fertility was the issue?
I have shipped out a dozen+ eggs before and had the buyer report that "5 weren't fertile..." while I have 39/40 eggs out of the same pen show development. Just because the eggs don't develop, doesn't mean they weren't fertile. Take into consideration shipping, temperature exposure, rough handling, and incubator variations... to name a few.
I expect 100% fertility... from the eggs I ship out AND the eggs shipped to me.
Just remember... fertility isn't always the culprit when eggs don't develop.

 

[onthespot]

I expect at least 90% fertility, unless someone told me otherwise before I laid down my $.

 

[greathorse]

Seems to me OP is referring to hatch rate, pretty hard to know fertility rate unless someone knows something I don't. I have never had much luck breaking an egg that didnt develop after incubating and having the yolk remain intact to see if it was fertile or not. Maybe I need to learn how to open an egg without breaking it.

 

[Megs]

i mean fertility, not hatch rate. im talking about eggs that are picked up locally, fresh and stored properly (mine as well as the eggs i bought to hatch), so rough handling/shipping etc is not a factor. In this instance (the low fertility from eggs i bought) weather could have been an issue (cold snap after decent weather), there was a good M/F ratio (1:4). Im getting some replacement eggs to try for that breed.

If you candle the eggs (i check from a week onwards until i set in hatch tray), you can generally tell which were fertile or not, if incubator conditions are proper (and i know from hatching many chicks already this year that my incubator is functioning just fine).

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

I;ve got a rooster, but my hens are not laying fertile eggs. 1 roo to 12 hens, and NOBODY is saying 'yes'.