Recent content by Mmr1984

Thank you ! That was incredibly informative and easy to follow. I’ve recently taken a dive into genetics and it’s dizzying for a beginner.

Quick inquiry, are we thinking sooty buff or partridge ? I’m unsure of how you get partridge but buff was a possibility from this hatch. I do not have any partridge in my flock. I’m guessing the gene doesn’t spontaneously emerge soooo it has to be a buff right ?

Most of my hatch ended up making it. I’m going to wait another 12 hours and see if the other 2 will hatch.

It’s the hard part of the hobby. It wasn’t intentional. So we just have to settle with that. I hope your third baby is ok!

Hopefully. It’s less about anticipation and more about wether or not something I did or didn’t do caused loss of life. Things happen life isn’t always kind and is often sad but there a difference between nature taking its course and myself being directly at fault. I’ll take you’re advice be...

Ok, I’ll try not to worry. My other sets must have been over achievers. I’ve never had it take longer than 14 hours. These are my first bantams. Hopefully I didn’t screw anything up.

This is my third year hatching eggs on our homestead. I’m using a Nurture right 360 and I’ve never had any issues. However I noticed the first egg had piped at about 8:30 this morning and it is now after 5pm and no progress has been made . . . Most of the others have piped and it’s the same...