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    Rooster won't mate with White Hens - advice?

    The integrated thermometer matches up with my secondary thermometer to within 1/10 of a degree - keeping the eggs at 99.6 For this last batch of eggs, I mixed them all up to try to eliminate any cold/hot spots in the incubator as a cause; didn't seem to matter - previous batches had approx...
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    Rooster won't mate with White Hens - advice?

    Here's a site that shows the changes in the blastoderm over the first 2 or 3 days.... http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2013/01/facts-and-myths-about-fertile-eggs.html
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    Rooster won't mate with White Hens - advice?

    I think you've hit the nail on the head. The non-white breeds are orpingtons, astrolorps, wyandottes, barred rocks and welsummers - all heavier than the leghorns. I watched them closely for 2 hours yesterday, and while I did see him get up on the backs of a few of the white ones, they wanted...
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    Rooster won't mate with White Hens - advice?

    I crack them into a dish to view before discarding. I don't see proper blastoderms in any of them - just the blastodisc - same as I see in the fresh white eggs. Fairly certain that they are not fertile.
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    Rooster won't mate with White Hens - advice?

    Proving fertility via visual inspection during incubation. At day 12 none of the white eggs show any growth - no blood vessels or anything.
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    Rooster won't mate with White Hens - advice?

    That's what I was thinking..... I do have another rooster, but he is not old enough yet....
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    Rooster won't mate with White Hens - advice?

    I have a flock of 25 pullets and one rooster all the same age (11 months), raised together. All of the hens are good layers. The roo is a white leghorn; I have 7 white leghorn hens and the others are all different brown/buff breeds. Do you have any idea why the roo will not mount the white...
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