The experiment begins! How many eggs can you save from a single hen.

[1muttsfan]

Did you date the eggs before setting? Just wondered if the eggs that were hatching were the older ones

 

[Delmar]

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Great question! Yes I did, but I haven't bothered sorting that out yet. I don't want to have the bator open too much. Plus any eggs that don't hatch will be really easy to read the date on. I did notice that one of the oldest eggs has not hatched yet. I wish I would have paid more careful attention arranging them in the bator according to date. that way I would know without looking which ones were where. Another thing that would have been good would have been to turn the dates facing up when we started lock down.

 

[1muttsfan]

Once they start hatching and the soccer game commences all the eggs get rearranged anyway

 

[Delmar]

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Good point.

The new count is 10

 

[cmfarm]

I have an old farm book that talks about egg fertility and age of egg. In the book it says that someone did an experiment that has a chart with the results. Acording to it at 16 days you have about 78% fertility. Even at 24 days you will still have about 55% fertility. It goes to day 32 and on that day it has about 3% fertility.

 

[Delmar]

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Can you give me the name of that book?

 

[cmfarm]

It's called "Poultry Production In The South". It was published in 1943. I got it at a rumable sale. It was written for agriculture students and farmers. It has some really neat information.

 

[Delmar]

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I wanted to see if there was an electronic version online. No such luck, at least so far.

 

[Delmar]

12

 

[1muttsfan]

Woohoo!
Check out amazon, they have several editions of poultry production in the south listed