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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Regular season<g> hatching summary and stats:
21 living, fuzzy, seemingly healthy chicks
22 live hatches Day 20-21 of 28 eggs = 79% hatch rate
11% rotten/non-viable (3 eggs so far)
1 post hatching fatality due to lack of yolk absorption/euthanasia
75% overall success rate, which might go higher if any of the 3 eggs 
still in incubator hatches tomorrow or Wednesday.

I'll tell ya, I'm really kind of proud of my candling interpretations. 
The first time I candled, years ago, I think I might have gotten 60-70% 
accuracy.  This time, I was almost 100%.

Not counting the eggs still in the incubator:
I had marked 2 eggs with an X and 2 eggs with a ?
Both X eggs were bad, and one of the ? eggs was bad.  The other yielded 
the little black chick I am calling Q.  I got the 50%.

I guess that is why I still have faith in the eggs in the incubator.
Even if they turn out to be non viable, that is 3/24 that were checked 
as good that would not be, which is 13% error on false positives and 11% 
candling error overall.  Also, it may be that it was candled correctly, 
but that something happened in the chick development. (I should be able 
to determine that when I break the egg on Wednesday should it fail to 
hatch).

On Wednesday, I'll give the post season hatching summary... :)
I talked to Crystal today and verified that I can keep the Hovabator 
until the Spring...yippee!!!
There is a woman on the other side of the loop with guineas...I sure 
would like some guineas!!!
And ducks! And peafowl!  Probably won't find peafowl, but I might be 
able to find some Muscovy ducks.
 I'm psyched!

Bev


Robert Walton wrote:
> Isn't that about a 70% or so hatch rate? I'd say that is pretty good
> and might go higher.
>
> Rob - Va
>
>
> > Of 28 eggs, disposition is as follows
> >
> > 20 fuzzy chicks in the box. (new picture)
> > 1 wet chick with yolk sac unabsorbed in the incubator. (new picture)
> > 3 potentially viable eggs in incubator, one is '2 day later' egg, but no
> > signs of hatching.  These eggs will be kept 23 days. (new picture)
> > 3 eggs discarded, rotten
> > 1 chick euthanized.
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