Why I stand my eggs all through the hatch. Just works better.
But Shelleyd and and are you saying my sweet little babies in there might have some BW in them?
Is that why they stand a bit tall with longer seeming legs and are a bit more narrow of the chest (so far). I can always spot the 6...
It just occus to me that more than a few were having fertility problems, (there was a cold snap), then problems started disappearing .
Your feed protein sounds good. Personally, as soon as these are out, I'd set more eggs just to see what you get.
I use a seive and sieve the oyster shell...
Lesalynn, hope you don't mind. But I want to learn some more here and keep going with this.
I don't think holding eggs 7 days is all that long. Not to have such a high rate of infertility.
We know that JJMR has birds even older that lay fertile eggs, so your birds aren't that old...
I have Manchurian Golds. They had been with Jumbo Browns. I had a communal pen of 4 F/1M, the Breeding pens are set up the same now, 4/1. I have so much Gold in the Jumbo Browns I still have the 25% lethal.
Don't confuse fertility with the Lethal Gene. I had 27 hatch out of 35. Eight...