How do you calculate your hatch rate?

[gamebirdsonly]

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That's what I would say....but your fertility rate is only 50%.

Not necessarily, Many factors could have contributated for the egg not to develope but still had been fertile. shipping eggs get scrambled, shaken, egg getting to cold ect.

 

[Farm Frenzy]

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I agree with you, but in my own eggs, they are all fertile. The clears would be from shipped eggs.

 

[shelleyb1969]

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That's what I would say....but your fertility rate is only 50%.

Not necessarily, Many factors could have contributated for the egg not to develope but still had been fertile. shipping eggs get scrambled, shaken, egg getting to cold ect.

I was basing my opinion on her eggs being from her own birds and not shipped. But the tossed egg would need to be opened and checked for fertility to be certain...correct?

 

[gabrielle1976]

wow dident mean to start a debate ,
I got 16 eggs , 2 were cracked so I sealed them with wax and put them in my hommade bator to test it out on day five one was growing so I put them in my store bought bator with 14 eggs I started that day. I count that as two diffrent sets of eggs, One set on the 5th and one set on the 9th , of the one set on the 5th one grew and one did not . The one baby hatched on wensday and today two of the other ones have htached. all 14 of the other set made it to day 18.5 when I put them into the hatcher and now I am waiting for the rest to hatch, tonight will be day 21.

 

[shelleyb1969]

Have I opened a can o' worms with this topic?

Hopefully everyone plays nice.

All being said, I feel that if you reveal to your egg buyer both your fertility rate and hatch rate, and how you calculate them, then all is good. But as said before, once the eggs are shipped anything goes.