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Birdcrazy:

--- Quote from: Paul on April 23, 2016, 08:37:12 AM ---Ernie, 

  If we could get a 75% hatch, we would shout "Praise the Lord!"  all the way to the PO to deliver the chicks!  Might even be able to supply a few more chick orders!  Momma told you correctly!!!

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Amen Paul, at least you are living in a world of reality not fantasy! I always wondered if those who say they get 95%-100% is calculated different than mine. I always calculate on the number of eggs that went into the incubator, not number of eggs left in the incubator after candling and discarding clears. I have on occasion in bantams hatched 15 0ut of 16 or so (I keep my breeding pens separate in the hatcher) but that is not the norm, especially in LF. I like you, would be ecstatic to get 75% of the original eggs put in the incubator to hatch.

DeWayne Edgin:
I gave up candling eggs a few years ago. It takes time to candle a bunch and i just would rather not be opening my incubator all of the time. So when i hatch i can calculate my hatch rates fairly close. I do open unhatched eggs to see how far they made it. If a varietey of Ameraucanas doesn`t hatch at all, then i start looking for the problem. Or if there is a large amount of a varietey that didn`t hatch, i will look closer to see which pen they are from and try to see what is going on. This year my Silvers aren`t hatching as well as they should. I narrowed it down to a trio that i am using. A couple of years ago i set 12 eggs from one single hen to incubate and all 12 hatched. That was the very only time that i had 100% hatch rate. I never expect good hatch rates on shipped eggs either so if i get half of what was shipped to me to hatch, im happy.  :)

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