THANK YOU!!! I do rabbits and I’m get really into their genetics bc of how competitive the coloring/marking are in one of my breeds. Genetic “language” is pretty much the same throughout species and anything I don’t understand there is Google!
I talked with my poultry leader just a moment ago and she has some interesting theories... like maybe since there aren’t that many porcelains, they could be inbred too much or for the sake of still having them breeders used stock with bad fertility.... there is just too many things that could be...
The woman said she has 6 hens and 1 rooster. And that she has been able to hatch her own rather successfully. I honestly don’t know. I’m talking with the local breeder now and he is saying that in the fall we will put a breeding pen together to see how many will hatch and try to determine the...
I ordered 24 from a breeder in Florida and of them only one survived (Cleatus Pictured above). I have talked with a local breeder who has AMAZING Millies and only does a few porcelains. He says it’s because they are hard to hatch... Right now he isn’t hatching anything because of show season and...
I just asked my Ag teacher and she said that her Shop class recalibrated the thermometer and hydrometer in the incubator before my class put the eggs in.
An incubator. I’ve tried twice, both with different incubators in different places, one at a friends house and the other in an Ag classroom at my school.
I have discussed this with some other breeders of D’uccles that are porcelain in variety and they all say that the hatch rates are really low. In my (minimal) experience, all my hatched had about half infertile, 1/4 develop and die halfway through, and 1/4 actually pip. I’ve only ever had one...