Old Fashioned Broody Hen Hatch A Long and Informational Thread

[LolaBlue]

I am curious.....         So If random chance predicts fifty fifty males to females out of a clutch of eggs from the same hen.  What are the odds of a clutch of eggs from six different donors....   the same?    Or does odds go right out the window.

deb

I'm not great with stats but I think it would remain similar as each individual egg still has a 50/50 chance of being female.... Hope so anyway!
Don't quote me though!

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

I'm not great with stats but I think it would remain similar as each individual egg still has a 50/50 chance of being female.... Hope so anyway!
Don't quote me though!

What I heard is it has more to do with the hen doing the hatching. Dunno why but some hens tend to hatch more boys while others tend to hatch more pullets no matter where or who the eggs came from. Someone mentioned it a while back, quoting from the old timers thread.

 

[stonykill]

I am curious.....

So If random chance predicts fifty fifty males to females out of a clutch of eggs from the same hen. What are the odds of a clutch of eggs from six different donors.... the same? Or does odds go right out the window.

deb

with chickens the hens dictate the sex. Some hens lay roo heavy eggs some lay pullet heavy eggs. The only way to know who does which is to hatch and figure it out from there after letting a hen hatch her own eggs a few times. My best broody Mama lays roo heavy eggs. Like 75% roo's on her own. So when she goes broody 4 times a year she now gets eggs from girls I have determained lay with a better pullet/roo ratio. For instance her one brood of 11 chicks last summer with other hens eggs was 7 pullets to 4 roo's. This works but takes time to figure out.

 

[stonykill]

What I heard is it has more to do with the hen doing the hatching. Dunno why but some hens tend to hatch more boys while others tend to hatch more pullets no matter where or who the eggs came from. Someone mentioned it a while back, quoting from the old timers thread.

I had asked this question on the OT thread because of my experience figuring this stuff out. I was checking to see if others found the same, and they had

 

[AnimalLover99]

HI!!!! So i ordered nine eggs, but they gave us extra so i got 12...... my silkie can only sit on 9-10, which ones should i take out? there are 3 of one breed (Speckeled sussex) and one of the eggs is much smaller. Should i take that one out? anything else to look for that indicates that they wont hatch? thanks

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

HI!!!! So i ordered nine eggs, but they gave us extra so i got 12...... my silkie can only sit on 9-10, which ones should i take out?  there are 3 of one breed (Speckeled sussex) and one of the eggs is much smaller.  Should i take that one out? anything else to look for that indicates that they wont hatch? thanks

Look for porous eggs. They can hatch but have a lower success rate. Lemme find the link...

Found it! https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...g-candling-pics-progression-though-incubation

 

[AnimalLover99]

Look for porous eggs. They can hatch but have a lower success rate. Lemme find the link...

Found it! https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...g-candling-pics-progression-though-incubation

thanks!! ill check

 

[AnimalLover99]

Look for porous eggs. They can hatch but have a lower success rate. Lemme find the link...

Found it! https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...g-candling-pics-progression-though-incubation

i found one but when i was going to take a pic of it and put it on here i dropped a different that i was going to compare it too so now im down to 11. too bad the bad one couldn't have fell.so im gonna take out the porous one and maybe one other, but now i have 2 welsummers 3 speckeled sussex and 5 silver spangeled hamburgs.( both the one that fell and the one that looked porous were welsummers, which is why it was harder to tell if they were porous which is why i was going to post a pic)

 

[LolaBlue]

What I heard is it has more to do with the hen doing the hatching. Dunno why but some hens tend to hatch more boys while others tend to hatch more pullets no matter where or who the eggs came from. Someone mentioned it a while back, quoting from the old timers thread.

Oh interesting! That kind of explains why lots of eggs that hatch in preschool classes tend to be Roos. (Our first 2 were)

 

[Miss Lydia]

Oh interesting! That kind of explains why lots of eggs that hatch in preschool classes tend to be Roos. (Our first 2 were)

Stony said his Mama Sumatra hatched boys more often so he gathers eggs from the other girls to put under her. aoxa did an experiment using ACV in the waterers and she had more females hatch than boys. This spring we shall see.

well I need to go back and read what else has been posted since stony has already spoke for Mama.