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Yes I do.You say gonna have to cull flock. Do you think its a genetic abnormalities in the adults causing the malpositioned poults and bad hatches.
Because I never marked or separated the years before poults that I have helped hatch I believe that one of them or more must have made it to my breeding stock.
If I marked them as "butcher only" and separated them from being possible breeding stock then the malposition wouldn't or shouldn't be present.
It is hereditary after all.
I don't think its the tom because he was one of the largest in the flock that year but why should I take a chance on another year with him?
I was picking my breeding stock from colour patterning.
Good lesson here for others on what not to do.
And that is if you help them hatch then you must not breed them.
Even the two hens sitting right now can't fix the malposition eggs.