A Grand Experiment

Is already hot today - the high is expected to be 97 degrees F - heat index well over 100.  Chickens do not do well in heat.  Heat stresses chickens much more than freezing temperatures.  So lots of tender loving care for my little flock of ladies.  Today also begins a grand experiment.  It is time to cull my flock but before I do that I want a little broody hen, Pick, to incubate some fertile eggs for me. I have a new experiment to set up.  I have ordered six fertile Easter eggs (type of chicken that lays pastel colored eggs known for their very low cholesterol).  I have one very broody speckled sussex hen.  Under the hen goes the eggs and in 21 days we'll see what we have.  When eggs are incubated this way, ratio of hatch is 50:50.  Ratio of hens to roosters is 50:50.  So I expect 3 eggs to hatch and either 2 roosters and 1 hen or 2 hens and 1 rooster.  Hoping for 2 hens and 1 rooster.