female blue eared lays woping 20 eggs

[birdboy508]

my female blue eared laid 20 eggs only 2 fertile do you think its because the mudiness in the spring or is the male not a good breader please replie.

 

[sourland]

How mature is the male? I would work on cleaning up the pen to optimize viability of the eggs. I'm going more with unsatisfactory environment rather than age of the cockbird since if he could fertilize 2 eggs, more should have been fertile.

 

[Tony K T]

Blue eareds are fertile the first year,so I guess either the male is not breeding her during the breeding season,or bred her to late in the season.If you have fertile eggs,he did breed her.It just a matter of when he bred her.
My 2 hens laid 46 eggs last year and 12 this year.All my egg counts were low this year.
In N.H.,Tony.

 

[birdboy508]

hey tony im the kid you talked to on the phone.

 

[Tony K T]

James you made it.I see you called a few times.I went up north for the weekend,so I couldn't call you back.Now we need to get Peter on here.
In N.H.,Tony.