I'm a little late, if its ok i'd like to joinI set 21 eggs today EE, Bared rock and white leghorns.
I Love BR and EE's!! Very nice breeds
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I'm a little late, if its ok i'd like to joinI set 21 eggs today EE, Bared rock and white leghorns.
I don't know anything about chicken genetics, but what about recessive genes for color? Like I have a white chick, but neither of the parents are white.
I Love BR and EE's!! Very nice breedsAre they from shipped eggs?
No,I ordered the eggs from a local breeder and recieved them yesterday at tractor supply where we met him. So far I haven't used shipped eggs yet, hopefully this will be my first hatch trough a incubator, my best broody is busy with chicks
Today is Day 8 for me. Started with 55 eggs. Down to 33, though I'm not really surprised by that.
None of the 8 eggs from my Blue Orp rooster's pen were fertile-fertility is in and out in there all the time, partly due to his age, partly due to his size, partly due to him not being that motivated in the first place, so not completely unexpected. Could be the next batch will all develop-that's the way it goes with Suede and his women. To hear tell it by Cetawin, it's just that his women are defective, LOL. I always set them anyway or give some to whatever broody I get.
Down from 13 Barred Rock eggs to 3, but again, fertility issue due to my Barred Rock rooster being gone for awhile before I began collecting eggs for myself. I guess fertility ran out sooner than I expected in there or he just wasn't mating them much that last couple of weeks. No biggie there, either, but would have been nice to have more fertile ones.
There were a couple of quitters removed from other breeds, a couple that I think may have quit, but we left in to recheck in a few days, but still, 33 eggs in the turner, no more need to double stack the eggs.
What is left in the bator:
15 Belgian D'Anver (removed one quitter, one on top that was jostled too much)
2 D'Anver x Lav Cochin
3 Delawegger (Del x EE, one possible quitter)
5 Delaware (one possible quitter)
5 Barred Easter Egger ( BR x EE)
3 Barred Plymouth Rock