Dead Gene?

[ScotianChick]

My husband and I just put eggs in a brooder tonight... black Easter Eggers (in blue eggs). He read that a quarter of them will come out dead... from this gene they have... is this true?

 

[cashdl]

No, the Araucana not the easter egger has a tufting gene that is lethal in two copies. If you have two tufted parents 25% of the chicks will die before they hatch. You have nothing to worry about.

Lanae