First Run of Cornish Cross Meat Birds and Super Excited!

[duluthralphie]

We will miss you.. and I know you will miss your chickens

STUMPY!!!
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Where have you been? I haven't seen a post from you in a while.

 

[Molpet]

STUMPY!!!
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Where have you been? I haven't seen a post from you in a while.

LOL I have been putting up Blk Rasp berries, digging Garlic and processed a couple of CX... Still have all my fingers LOL
I did keep the smallest CX .. she has been courted by my roo.. no eggs yet (16 weeks old)

 

[duluthralphie]

LOL I have been putting up Blk Rasp berries, digging Garlic and processed a couple of CX... Still have all my fingers LOL
I did keep the smallest CX .. she has been courted by my roo.. no eggs yet (16 weeks old)

I have never had one lay the same year it was hatched, but I think part of that is my relationship to the arctic circle..

 

[JRNash]

Ralph two eggs had started developing,then stopped one was stuck in the turner. I destroyed it trying to get it out. I use a percentage calculator,my math skills are chaotic. If the math is in relation to something Im interested in I can do it.Otherwise....me be one wut run with football coach...which way??

 

[duluthralphie]

Well. the rules are flexible for figuring the hatch rate.

Any egg that is mailed and hatches is worth 2 percentage points.

A mailed egg that hatches is not figured into the formula ever.

An egg that travels in a vehicle, even if 10 feet, does not count unless it hatches then it is 1 percentage point.

Any egg that you throw out before day 20 never counts, on partridge you count eggs after day 16.

Any egg that explodes is not counted. It does give a 0.1 % increase to every other egg in the incubator due to the trauma they endured.

Now if the eggs is off color from the rest in the incubator another 2% bonus is added if it hatches.

I they hatch a day in the week ending in a Y they get 2 more points....
If they do not hatch on a day ending in a Y they lose 5 points.


If they hatch south of the mason Dixon line they get another 3%. If they hatch north of the Mason Dixon line they get 2% plus 1% for the cold.



A good hatch should have a rate around 150% or so. It is not uncommon for someone good with the rules to get 200% or better.


I hope this helps.

 

[Birdinhand]

Well. the rules are flexible for figuring the hatch rate.

Any egg that is mailed and hatches is worth 2 percentage points.

A mailed egg that hatches is not figured into the formula ever.

An egg that travels in a vehicle, even if 10 feet, does not count unless it hatches then it is 1 percentage point.

Any egg that you throw out before day 20 never counts, on partridge you count eggs after day 16.

Any egg that explodes is not counted. It does give a 0.1 % increase to every other egg in the incubator due to the trauma they endured.

Now if the eggs is off color from the rest in the incubator another 2% bonus is added if it hatches.

I they hatch a day in the week ending in a Y they get 2 more points....
If they do not hatch on a day ending in a Y they lose 5 points.


If they hatch south of the mason Dixon line they get another 3%. If they hatch north of the Mason Dixon line they get 2% plus 1% for the cold.



A good hatch should have a rate around 150% or so. It is not uncommon for someone good with the rules to get 200% or better.


I hope this helps.

no kidding, geese, that makes so much more sense now! I'm up in the 180% range and I feel much better now :~)

 

[JRNash]

Chicken math. Im starting to see a correlation between people that raise chickens and people that own corvettes.
Smooth off the rails...

 

[Turk Raphael]

Chicken math. Im starting to see a correlation between people that raise chickens and people that own corvettes.
Smooth off the rails...

Only in TEXAS !!!!

 

[duluthralphie]

Only in TEXAS !!!!

You mean I don't get a free Corvette for owning a chicken?




BTW I know a guy that has an old piece of crap 1977 corvette. He is constantly talking about his "corvette"..... In actuality it is worth less than my old junker 1999 F350.. And my old truck is way more practical than his "thing"....... Is that what you mean JR???

 

[Birdinhand]

well, with money over time at 180%, buying a corvette is simply a matter of scalability. I could also start monetizing the byproducts like the poop, organ meats and feathers for fly fishing, yeah, thats the ticket, I'll have me a vette in no time, it will be super plush, down filled even! :~)