My husband and I have a bet about fertilized eggs. He believes the large companies that provide chicks to commercial poultry producers must have a way to check for egg fertility before the eggs are incubated.
I say they provide a good rooster to hen ratio, put the resulting eggs in an incubator, and hope for the best, just like the rest of us.
He believes they can tell by candling (BEORE a period of incubation!) OR by some other method. I told him candling will not work until several days into the incubation period. So, he thinks there MUST be some other way the BIG BOYS determine fertility before wasting the time and effort and expense of incubating eggs. I say they candle them during the incubation process, and remove the duds. No magic, just what we BYC raisers do!
So, who is correct?
I say they provide a good rooster to hen ratio, put the resulting eggs in an incubator, and hope for the best, just like the rest of us.
He believes they can tell by candling (BEORE a period of incubation!) OR by some other method. I told him candling will not work until several days into the incubation period. So, he thinks there MUST be some other way the BIG BOYS determine fertility before wasting the time and effort and expense of incubating eggs. I say they candle them during the incubation process, and remove the duds. No magic, just what we BYC raisers do!
So, who is correct?
