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Thoughts on the 4/15 opener?
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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5611305" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>Incubation temps varying a little above or below 99.5 deg can slightly skew hatch ratio sex, but not more than a couple percent. It isn't the sex of the developing poult changes during incubation, but rather may be because a certain sex is more likely to survive aberrent incubation temps, and the opposite sex is less likely to actually hatch.</p><p></p><p>regardless, it does not matter what outside temps are... 35 degrees or 95 degrees. That mother hen is a freaking genius and keeps the temp spot on throughout incubation. I will say this... when she gets off the nest for her daily stretch/ feed until lockdown (day 23 or 24), very high ambient temps will often shorten total incubation time down to 27 days from standard 28 days. Likewise, very cool daytime temps throughout incubation can also result in an extra day from start of incubation until hatch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5611305, member: 2805"] Incubation temps varying a little above or below 99.5 deg can slightly skew hatch ratio sex, but not more than a couple percent. It isn't the sex of the developing poult changes during incubation, but rather may be because a certain sex is more likely to survive aberrent incubation temps, and the opposite sex is less likely to actually hatch. regardless, it does not matter what outside temps are... 35 degrees or 95 degrees. That mother hen is a freaking genius and keeps the temp spot on throughout incubation. I will say this... when she gets off the nest for her daily stretch/ feed until lockdown (day 23 or 24), very high ambient temps will often shorten total incubation time down to 27 days from standard 28 days. Likewise, very cool daytime temps throughout incubation can also result in an extra day from start of incubation until hatch. [/QUOTE]
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