Couple of BYC members already asked me what is setting eggs by the moon? But if your the younger generation you might not know what it is course im not old now lol but my mom was born and raised on 300 acres of farmland with her family out in the boonies and she said thats how they set all their broody hens on eggs was by the moon
Its in THE OLD FARMERS ALMANAC in the back pages in ASTROLOGY it was on page 230 this year and it has a list of what the moon is in and the signs like cancer,pisces,scorpio ect,ect and it said this year that chicks born under a waxing moon in the fruitful signs of cancer,pisces,scorpio are healthier and mature faster and to find the best hatch day you look at the list for those signs and you count back 21 days i wrote down all the best hatch days on my chick logbook and there is 20 good hatch days left this year the next months good days to set is July 7&8 ,14&15,23&24 and last day is July 26 i hatch out anywhere from 2 to 4 times a month and i only have two incubators but its good on alot of the days you set eggs thats also sometimes a day you take eggs out of the turner and put them on the wire so far i have hatched out 40 chicks my mom also uses the THE OLD FARMERS ALMANAC to see what is the best days to PLANT now some might think its stupid to set by the moon but this is how the old farmers use to do it back then and still do
When i was first hatching out eggs i had a horrible hatch rate i was only hatching out 5 everytime out of 40 eggs and finally i got tired of it and i told mom thats it im going to start setting my eggs by the moon and when i did my hatch rate jumped to 50% i once had 10 chicks hatch out on day 20 and then 7 on day 21 that was my first real good hatch I WAS SOOO HAPPY!!
And if anyone cant find the almanac in your stores then if you want i can PM you the days to set eggs we brought ours from TSC just about any feed store should sell the almanac and if you buy it make sure it says THE OLD FARMERS ALMANAC not the THE FARMERS ALMANAC there is two of them
Its in THE OLD FARMERS ALMANAC in the back pages in ASTROLOGY it was on page 230 this year and it has a list of what the moon is in and the signs like cancer,pisces,scorpio ect,ect and it said this year that chicks born under a waxing moon in the fruitful signs of cancer,pisces,scorpio are healthier and mature faster and to find the best hatch day you look at the list for those signs and you count back 21 days i wrote down all the best hatch days on my chick logbook and there is 20 good hatch days left this year the next months good days to set is July 7&8 ,14&15,23&24 and last day is July 26 i hatch out anywhere from 2 to 4 times a month and i only have two incubators but its good on alot of the days you set eggs thats also sometimes a day you take eggs out of the turner and put them on the wire so far i have hatched out 40 chicks my mom also uses the THE OLD FARMERS ALMANAC to see what is the best days to PLANT now some might think its stupid to set by the moon but this is how the old farmers use to do it back then and still do
When i was first hatching out eggs i had a horrible hatch rate i was only hatching out 5 everytime out of 40 eggs and finally i got tired of it and i told mom thats it im going to start setting my eggs by the moon and when i did my hatch rate jumped to 50% i once had 10 chicks hatch out on day 20 and then 7 on day 21 that was my first real good hatch I WAS SOOO HAPPY!!
And if anyone cant find the almanac in your stores then if you want i can PM you the days to set eggs we brought ours from TSC just about any feed store should sell the almanac and if you buy it make sure it says THE OLD FARMERS ALMANAC not the THE FARMERS ALMANAC there is two of them
