Figuring your hatch rate

[Granny Hoffman]

To figure your hatch rate, do you start with the amount set in the bator or the amount of eggs that went into lockdown.

Thanks

 

[ColbyNTX]

how many you put in the bator!

 

[Livinwright Farm]

I am not positive, I think it is the number that you start with, but the number that goes into lockdown seems to make more sense... as you won't be able to know for sure if all the eggs were even fertilized until a couple days have gone by....

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

If you are testing your skill with an incubator you could count the ones that started growing. If you are testing eggs you would count the ones that made it to lockdown. If you want the actual total of all variables you count it all.

 

[HEChicken]

I've wondered this myself too and wasn't sure how to calculate my recent hatch rate. I finally decided to count it based on the number that started developing. Three were clear when I candled so might have been infertile. I figure I can incubate them forever and if they're infertile they're never gonna develop, so its not fair to count them in my numbers. But that's just me.

 

[Livinwright Farm]

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This makes sense to me, and with that said, I should have a hatch rate of 94.29% if these babies keep going as strong as they have been!

Edited to add: This is with an LG9200 by the way!

 

[perolane]

I calculate by the number of viable (veining) eggs I have at first candling around days 5 to 10. If I put 12 eggs in, & then at first candle two are clear...I'm certaintly not going to count those as a part of my total hatch rate since it was not a viable egg in the first place. From that point on I have 10 eggs to make my calculation on. If those 10 hatch, I have a 100% hatch rate....only 5, 50% hatch rate...etc.

This may be wrong, but that's how I do it

 

[Martin Grove Farm]

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Exactly how I do it. See, great minds think alike!

 

[A.T. Hagan]

I do what Perolane does as well.

Though if I have more than a couple of clears it's time to make some changes in the henyard.

 

[perolane]

A.T. Hagan :

I do what Perolane does as well.

Though if I have more than a couple of clears it's time to make some changes in the henyard.

That's when roos get fired!!