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Mulia, old men are often sure of things - okay old women too - that ARE NOT TRUE...
Wish I had a dollar for every time some old country fart or another has told me something about livestock that turned out to not be true. I could have a new barn.
Pullet eggs are often fertile. They often hatch without problems, when there is a problem it's usually a chick not turning in the egg.
Most of my pullet eggs hatch just like other eggs.
I had one old fart, whom I love dearly but he's an old fart and he knows it, tell me chickens laid for two weeks then took a break. Oddly my chickens lay year round, slow when moulting, then lay again.
He started buying MY chickens because mine lay better. And I'm fairly sure it's in part the good start they got here on excellent feed.
Old people only know what they've experienced, and if they didn't try something because THEY were told it did not work... then they believe it - without basis.
People have told me all/most assisted chicks die. That's not true.
They're all weak for life if you help them out, also not true.
The list goes on and on and on.
Determine the truth for yourself, based on more than one try and more than one experience. For the most part, much that is Lore - is poppycock and the Rules... they're general statements not finite boarders.
Sure the over all best outcome is going to be from clean, fresh, large eggs from a seasoned hen. But when you have a young pullet and you want MORE chickens, especially from THAT pullet. Hatch a bunch of them because there is NO guarantee that that pullet will be around as an older bird. Sure maybe some won't go, or won't hatch right but some will. I know - I've got plenty of the chicks from early pullet eggs running around here.
Mulia, old men are often sure of things - okay old women too - that ARE NOT TRUE...
Wish I had a dollar for every time some old country fart or another has told me something about livestock that turned out to not be true. I could have a new barn.
Pullet eggs are often fertile. They often hatch without problems, when there is a problem it's usually a chick not turning in the egg.
Most of my pullet eggs hatch just like other eggs.
I had one old fart, whom I love dearly but he's an old fart and he knows it, tell me chickens laid for two weeks then took a break. Oddly my chickens lay year round, slow when moulting, then lay again.
He started buying MY chickens because mine lay better. And I'm fairly sure it's in part the good start they got here on excellent feed.
Old people only know what they've experienced, and if they didn't try something because THEY were told it did not work... then they believe it - without basis.
People have told me all/most assisted chicks die. That's not true.
They're all weak for life if you help them out, also not true.
The list goes on and on and on.
Determine the truth for yourself, based on more than one try and more than one experience. For the most part, much that is Lore - is poppycock and the Rules... they're general statements not finite boarders.
Sure the over all best outcome is going to be from clean, fresh, large eggs from a seasoned hen. But when you have a young pullet and you want MORE chickens, especially from THAT pullet. Hatch a bunch of them because there is NO guarantee that that pullet will be around as an older bird. Sure maybe some won't go, or won't hatch right but some will. I know - I've got plenty of the chicks from early pullet eggs running around here.
