Egg Fertility

[inufreecs]

My large fowl hens do NOT accept the advance of my bantam rooster but are perfectly happy to mate with and follow the large fowl boy. It doesn't matter how much he treat calls or dances they just laugh at him. They aren't convinced of his dominance and don't consider him suitable to fertilize their eggs... is my best guess, even though he does not back down from the other boy. This may be your issue.

I don't do it... but some on here have been known to manually fertilize the eggs... I don't know the details. Silkie bred to hard feathered, offspring will be hard feathered in the first generation.

Happy hatching!

That all sounds really interesting! Especially the manual fertilization
Yes my boy isn't really respected as the "leader" and they usually treat him like another hen lol

 

[inufreecs]

Would be great if you could an extra or two and check the yolks,
and take more great pics

Here are the eggs i harvested today

 

[Shamo Hybrid]

Big John DUD!! Actually....... I'm not sure.

 

[aart]

Here are the eggs i harvested today

From your birds or your buddies?
They look possibly fertile to me, but again not the classic 'bullseye'....
....that's why it would be interesting to incubate them.

 

[inufreecs]

From your birds or your buddies?
They look possibly fertile to me, but again not the classic 'bullseye'....
....that's why it would be interesting to incubate them.

Yep, i'm getting an incubator next week so i'll save a few for then. Thank you!