I was looking through the SOP this morning and mottled was the closest they listed for OEGB's, had me wondering if you had a seabright with the wrong comb type.
yes dark buff, or red buff. they are hard to get consistently! Some prefer them, but they are not as good for showing. great for breeding color into paris .
Im still guessing the bantam is a seabright with the wrong comb, not an oegb. I think the oegbs are too rare to see in a feed bin in that color.
I've been looking it up a bit, and I don't know how you would even be able to tell the difference between a Silver laced OEGB, and a SL Sebright. The comb is the only sure difference so far. He doesn't have the clean lines and bright feathers the sebright pictures show, but since he's from a hatchery (Ideal) who knows?? He also doesn't have the super creepy sebright eyes.....
So my shipment of 20 Project Mottled Ameruacana eggs has not gone very well.
I don't know if they had rough handling by the PO or what happened. Of the 20 eggs, 12 did not even start to develop. 3 showed only a spot of blood when I opened them. That left 5 in the incubator as of the 20th.....all of them with saddle air cells. Friday was lockdown and I candled them...2 more quitters. Only 3 that appear still viable. I traced the air cell on them. I am assuming they need to be set with the low part of the cell up......is that correct? Here is a shot of the air cells ans the way they are positioned in the hatcher.
So my shipment of 20 Project Mottled Ameruacana eggs has not gone very well.
I don't know if they had rough handling by the PO or what happened. Of the 20 eggs, 12 did not even start to develop. 3 showed only a spot of blood when I opened them. That left 5 in the incubator as of the 20th.....all of them with saddle air cells. Friday was lockdown and I candled them...2 more quitters. Only 3 that appear still viable. I traced the air cell on them. I am assuming they need to be set with the low part of the cell up......is that correct? Here is a shot of the air cells ans the way they are positioned in the hatcher.
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Thank you! I really want at least a couple from these eggs..... Thanks for the good thought! All of my other eggs are doing very well. I now have 6 runner ducks, 3 guineas, 17 Ameraucana crosses and BCMs, plus 6 meat birds all hatched since last weekend. But, of course, the ones I most want to hatch are the ones I am having problems with......
So my shipment of 20 Project Mottled Ameruacana eggs has not gone very well.
I don't know if they had rough handling by the PO or what happened. Of the 20 eggs, 12 did not even start to develop. 3 showed only a spot of blood when I opened them. That left 5 in the incubator as of the 20th.....all of them with saddle air cells. Friday was lockdown and I candled them...2 more quitters. Only 3 that appear still viable. I traced the air cell on them. I am assuming they need to be set with the low part of the cell up......is that correct? Here is a shot of the air cells ans the way they are positioned in the hatcher.
Those eggs came for the LA area? It is odd that they had such damage. I bet they did not use the Skyline of Wisher1000 packing method. It is sad--Packing differently can make a huge difference.