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I'm sorry that I haven't been online often lately.
If we are working with a small gene pool we'll get more genetic defects.
I was curious about your egg turning. Are you using an automatic turner? Brand? Turning by hand?
Frequent early turning can dramatically increase hatchability.
Malposition and early failures can be due to inadequate turning.
https://www.pasreform.com/academy/f...tion/1279-the-biology-behind-egg-turning.html
As for nutrition, I firmly believe that a diet of a normal complete poultry feed will be adequate for body maintenance and production but not necessarily for reproduction.
Fermenting feed or just wetting the feed will bind up the goodies that are added as powders. Vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fats.
Then they won't be lost in the fines at the bottom of the feeder.
To increase the micronutrients that aren't necessarily tested for in feed analysis try the following.
I mix in a bit of kelp to the fermented feed.
Whenever I can get berries inexpensively at the farmers market, I feed those as well.
To just up the nutrient intake, I add a bit of Nutri-drench to the water a couple times a week.
The windows were really rattling overnight.
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IMHO, all chickens should hatch at 21 days. Late hatching would indicate low temps throughout.
I'm sorry that I haven't been online often lately.
If we are working with a small gene pool we'll get more genetic defects.
I was curious about your egg turning. Are you using an automatic turner? Brand? Turning by hand?
Frequent early turning can dramatically increase hatchability.
Malposition and early failures can be due to inadequate turning.
https://www.pasreform.com/academy/f...tion/1279-the-biology-behind-egg-turning.html
As for nutrition, I firmly believe that a diet of a normal complete poultry feed will be adequate for body maintenance and production but not necessarily for reproduction.
Fermenting feed or just wetting the feed will bind up the goodies that are added as powders. Vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fats.
Then they won't be lost in the fines at the bottom of the feeder.
To increase the micronutrients that aren't necessarily tested for in feed analysis try the following.
I mix in a bit of kelp to the fermented feed.
Whenever I can get berries inexpensively at the farmers market, I feed those as well.
To just up the nutrient intake, I add a bit of Nutri-drench to the water a couple times a week.
Don't be so harsh on the USPS.
That's great.
Likely just the wind.Something is banging, and it's making the dog bark. I'm not sure if I'm more afraid of danger or that the dog is going to wake Duckling.
The windows were really rattling overnight.
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Have you been told the Sulmtalers are late hatchers or is that from experience.
IMHO, all chickens should hatch at 21 days. Late hatching would indicate low temps throughout.
with the ducklings I sold I covered the cost of this months feed bill! 
