Westford, MA swap Sun. ****april 11TH

[keesmom]

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Then when I hatched your eggs I had 4 roos and 1 pullet. That was in the LG.

 

[Poultry Run Farm]

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Then when I hatched your eggs I had 4 roos and 1 pullet. That was in the LG.

maybe you are cursed??

Just kidding, it's weird how things sometimes happen...

 

[keesmom]

You must be keeping all the girl eggs.

 

[gypsy2621]

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That is funny,
Dave I will be curious to talk with Jen and see what her idea is, I think she is talking ambient room temperature vs incubator temperature.
now you have my geek side thinking.
now I am going to have to pick up eggs
leave them in a cooler room, one set in a warmer room marked and see what and how they develop hen to rooster ratio.

Now somewhere I read while searching for the link I found, that hatching eggs set aside for 2 weeks still had a good hatch ratio but it didn't say anything about rooster to hen ratio unfortunately.

edited for more thoughts on the subject.

Cindy have you hatched anything with the new incubator yet?

I do have to wonder something though on the temperature fluxes.
and need to ask Val on this as she uses a lyons incubator,
thoughts are the more stable temperatures of the top line Bators vs the constant fluxes with the LG and other styrofoam incubators will have something to do with the ratio and mortality also?

oh the curiosity!

 

[chickn]

i dont know about any of this, but in general i think it was the year of the rooster! i think that cindy is cursed also. LOL

 

[keesmom]

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Dave's Dominiques were in the Brinsea. He says 8 out of 10 roos. I also had some bantam cochins before that, and 9 out of 10 roos.

My only good hatch of pullets was in the LG, and that was the first one I did this year.

 

[gypsy2621]

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Dave's Dominiques were in the Brinsea. He says 8 out of 10 roos. I also had some bantam cochins before that, and 9 out of 10 roos.

My only good hatch of pullets was in the LG, and that was the first one I did this year.

Well then I dont know lol, maybe Wendy is right its just the Yearof the Rooster thing in play here,
hopefully there will ba a year of the hen and everyone will be hollering for roosters LOL.

 

[chickn]

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Dave's Dominiques were in the Brinsea. He says 8 out of 10 roos. I also had some bantam cochins before that, and 9 out of 10 roos.

My only good hatch of pullets was in the LG, and that was the first one I did this year.

Well then I dont know lol, maybe Wendy is right its just the Yearof the Rooster thing in play here,
hopefully there will ba a year of the hen and everyone will be hollering for roosters LOL.

and we will know who to go to!! cindy

 

[keesmom]

Lucky me.

 

[chickn]

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i am thankful you didnt hatch any of the new babies! what are the chances there are more roo's than not