Im not sure if this is the right place for this. I have an Easter egger that I was told was a pullet, but several weeks later “it” keeps mounting my black silkie hen (only her though!) I’m pretty sure I see saddle feathers coming in but not 100% sure. Anyway, today my black silkie laid an egg...
So i bought 40 quail eggs from the supermarket and put them all in the incubator at a steady 37.6 c and 50% humidity and then went and searched if quail eggs from the supermarket are fertilized and google said no...
I dont want to waste the incubator's time incubating unfertile eggs should i...
Hey I am trying to breed my Jap bantams. I put some eggs in the incubator and they look infertile wondering how to make my rooster fertile. I have seen him try to mate but no eggs are fertile any advice? Thanks!
one of sad things when incubating eggs is knowing that some eggs was not fertile. from several time incubate eggs, I almost always got 1/3 of total eggs that not fertile. usually I throw it or put it on nest box as decoy, but those two option is wasteful I think, since I don't want to put more...
I have a bit of a dilemma and I could use your advice. I've had Cayuga and Pekin in the past, both great layers but not brooding so it was easy to just scoop the eggs.
Now I have two Muscovy. We were unsure of either sex but assumed the bigger to be male and the smaller female. Well, the bigger...
I have an egg in the incubator that Never developed but I left it just in case. It's sibling of the same age is pretty far along. So today is day 13 and I decided it was definitely rime to call it quits on the dud. So I candle to make sure I'm removing the correct egg and there is a ring of red...
I currently have 15 RIR eggs under a broody on about day 8. I just candled them with our new Brinsea high powered candler only to find that not a single one had veins or any other definite sign of growth :hit. My guess is that they were unfertilized due to my rooster not feeling his best. The...