As anyone on this forum knows I am an avid fan of Practical Poultry magazine. Its one of only two I choose to buy.
The thing is sometimes you UK folks have terminology that I don't understand. My son in law is from the UK but he's not into chickens and wouldn't know the terms that apply. Though he does like the sound of the rooster when he visits and for me to make him breakfast of fresh eggs and spinach pie.
Well in this months (March) issue Andy Marshall speaks of "putting down" eggs. Quote: "The large fowl are now all mated-up, and plenty of eggs are down". What is he talking about?
Then he mentions something called a "magnet". Quote: "However we've had mixed results with the magnet so far. Isabella finds that it works well and easily for her, but it's proved less revealing for me." What is this "magnet" and what does it do?
Again he says, "I seem able to identify fertile and infertile eggs pretty well, but Isy can reliably determine the sex of the chick inside the egg too." How does she do this? Over here we can't identify the sex of some breeds until the first crow. Not to mention the fertility without cracking the egg open.
Like I said it's one, of if not my favorite poultry magazine, but I wonder sometimes if you Brits aren't putting us Yanks on, laughing as visions of us with furled brows trying to make sense of the terms, enter your minds.
Well I hope someone answers my questions or I may spend to much time trying to figure out how waving a refrigerator magnet around my eggs can tell me if it's fertile or not.
Thanks in advance
Rancher
The thing is sometimes you UK folks have terminology that I don't understand. My son in law is from the UK but he's not into chickens and wouldn't know the terms that apply. Though he does like the sound of the rooster when he visits and for me to make him breakfast of fresh eggs and spinach pie.
Well in this months (March) issue Andy Marshall speaks of "putting down" eggs. Quote: "The large fowl are now all mated-up, and plenty of eggs are down". What is he talking about?
Then he mentions something called a "magnet". Quote: "However we've had mixed results with the magnet so far. Isabella finds that it works well and easily for her, but it's proved less revealing for me." What is this "magnet" and what does it do?
Again he says, "I seem able to identify fertile and infertile eggs pretty well, but Isy can reliably determine the sex of the chick inside the egg too." How does she do this? Over here we can't identify the sex of some breeds until the first crow. Not to mention the fertility without cracking the egg open.
Like I said it's one, of if not my favorite poultry magazine, but I wonder sometimes if you Brits aren't putting us Yanks on, laughing as visions of us with furled brows trying to make sense of the terms, enter your minds.
Well I hope someone answers my questions or I may spend to much time trying to figure out how waving a refrigerator magnet around my eggs can tell me if it's fertile or not.
Thanks in advance
Rancher
