Mythbusters

[jvls1942]

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waiting , huh?

 

[19Dawn76]

Hikerchick - What happens when the goat turns around?

(Sometimes I can't help myself)

 

[Year of the Rooster]

All roosters crow - just some more than others

... so don't convince us otherwise that there is a breed that doesn't crow or ask us if there is one out there.

 

[Southernbelle]

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Can we go over this? I want to know how to do this correctly

I recently had 16 eggs shipped, 10 hatched, 2 clears, 4 blood rings

I calculate that as 10/16 hatched so a hatch rate of 63% - I know some people don't count the clears and/or blood rings - but that just seemed like they were artificially plumping their numbers

Fertility would be 14/16 so 88% since 14 developed, right?

 

[jvls1942]

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Can we go over this? I want to know how to do this correctly

I recently had 16 eggs shipped, 10 hatched, 2 clears, 4 blood rings

I calculate that as 10/16 hatched so a hatch rate of 63% - I know some people don't count the clears and/or blood rings - but that just seemed like they were artificially plumping their numbers

Fertility would be 14/16 so 88% since 14 developed, right?

OK that is how I was doing it.. 200 in 150 hatch = 75% I never allow for clears , either..

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Can we go over this? I want to know how to do this correctly

I recently had 16 eggs shipped, 10 hatched, 2 clears, 4 blood rings

I calculate that as 10/16 hatched so a hatch rate of 63% - I know some people don't count the clears and/or blood rings - but that just seemed like they were artificially plumping their numbers

Fertility would be 14/16 so 88% since 14 developed, right?

I don't count eggs that are completely clear as a hatch problem, that is more a fertility problem (in my own birds' eggs). I do count blood rings as 'a loss of hatch' though, since they did start to develop, and more times than not, the blood ring develops becuase of something I've done.

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

 

[hikerchick]

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nanny berries on your shoe.

 

[Chickenmaven]

My "myth": One cannot "Baby Einstein" their chickens, i.e. make them smart by buying them stimulating toys. I adore my pet chickens, but think this line of thought is rather goofy.

A correction: It is SKITTISH (jumpy, flighty), not skiddish. Skiddish would sorta mean they are skidding, sliding sideways...

 

[speckledhen]

In hatch rate, you do not count clears that will never hatch no matter what, just like they were not there. You do count blood rings since they did begin development and could have hatched, possibly. In the fertility rate, you count them all.