Susan Skylark
Songster
So my flock is in transition, my males apparently hit a wall on their first birthday and either became grumpy old birds and literally lost his head or have sworn off girls altogether. My replacements are just eight weeks old yesterday, and mostly young, timid, and haven’t a clue what they are doing. I moved everybody from individual breeding pens to large group housing about a month ago, my old males fell apart three weeks ago, my young males were five weeks old at that point. I put eggs in the incubator on Sunday night, not expecting much in the way of fertility. 72 hours in I candled all 12 eggs, 2 I pulled as obviously infertile, 10 remain that are at least suspicious of development or are too dark to tell for sure. So what percent will be fertile (ignore the two culls for this exercise, so 1/10 is 10%). I will spot you 3 definite embryos, so pick a number between 30-100% and let the guessing begin! I’m totally astonished any are fertile personally! I’ll candle again in 48 hours and hopefully have an answer. I’m going with 60%, but 110% would be awesome (assuming a double yolk with viable embryos). Apparently those old geezers have been busy when I’m not looking or the kids have it figured out!
