I learned along time ago that I can't hatch eggs with water/humidity. If I dry hatch, I seem to have wonderful hatch rates, add a drop of water and all mine die in the shell. I don't know why. I just know it is. so I dry hatch all my poultry.
In one of your posts you said you had egg picks on your FB, however didn't give a link to your FB page. Im working on the Shofield line, and would love to see what you are doing with the ce eggs.
I assume this post has died out because some where along the way The OP realized that blue egg to blue egg or Homogaznous (sp) are lethal. The Blue quail also mature slower, so to compare them with normal or jumbo is not possible. You also can't simply breed a blue egg layer with a sibling and...
We have had Orphs for about 25yrs. This year a neighbor got cancer and we inherited her birds. Many of those were black Jersey Giants. They were young, however when they started laying, they really started laying. They forage very well, yet stay close enough to the poultry yard. Some of the...