Possible Guinea Eggs in "Quail" Batch?

[Granny Hatchet]

theres 3 eggs left in there. 1 is chirping the other 2 are moving.??? when will you get your eggs? babies? are you back to school?

 

[Cheyen]

Eggs and babies will both be here next week! Babies anywhere from Monday or Tuesday, eggs anywhere from Monday to Wednesday.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

thats awesome. you will have your hands full. hahahha sounds like your mom might of found that chicken math too. speaking of.... are you going to figure my hatch rate when they are done???

 

[Cheyen]

And yes, I'm back in school. We have a substitute this period, so I think I can get away with talking a bit more than usual...

 

[Cheyen]

I can figure it if you want. How many did you put in there to begin with? 30 or so, right?

 

[Granny Hatchet]

i put 37, on day 7 i candled and 6 were not fertile and 1 had a blood ring. do you count them?? so far 23 have hatched but i am expecting more. 4 have died. mostly at my own hands except for one born with a crazy birth defect.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

And yes, I'm back in school. We have a substitute this period, so I think I can get away with talking a bit more than usual...

gotta love them subs

 

[Cheyen]

Unless you cracked them open to see if they were fertile, you don't count the eggs that never developed when you calculate hatch rate. You do count the blood ring, though, because that means an embryo was developing but died. To get your hatch rate you divide the number of total hatched chicks by the number of fertile eggs you set (which is why those didn't count). You count the eggs that died as fertile, as well. So far, 23/30= 76.6%. You could round that off to 77%. Not bad! I'm sure it'll get higher once those babies get moving.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

thats not bad. thank you. i will never remember how to do that though. hahahha i could of had almost 100 if i had left them alone. one had piped at the wrong end and after i opened it it turned to the right end and died, one i was sure was dead and it wasnt. one had its brain growing on the outside.

that was just weird. i know at least 2 of these 3 are trying to hatch. not sure if the 3rd. one is or not but its alive. will you have to wait on the chukars untill after the quail hatch?

 

[Cheyen]

Yeah, I'm probably going to have to wait. I don't mind though. It'll give me time to get things set up for them.