She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

Oooh, I gotta save those images...

On the spoiler, just hit ok, and then type in the spoiler box. It will box it up for you.
like this
big_smile.png

Then to add a pic, click in the yellow area and add an image, just like you would otherwise.
 
@lazy gardener

Araucana eggs are hard to hatch no matter what... but the 'lethal gene' isn't related to the rumplessness at all, it's all about the tufts... if an embryo inherits 2 copies of tufted from the parents, then it will cause DIS... seems that when someone started looking into why it was figured out that 2 tufted genes causes the tufts to grow internally into the brain instead of out... so to give better odds and hatch rates you breed tufted to non tufted, either the roo is tufted and all hens are clean faced or all hens tufted and roo is clean faced... clean faced is not to SOP, but they are crucial to having a better hatch rates and breeding program... some people still breed tufted to tufted, but they get few chicks and lots of DIS... I can't do that... IMO it's just not something I could do knowing that most of those will never hatch...

I think the numbers are like this...

Tufted x Clean faced = 75% hatch rate, 50% clean faced, 50% tufted
Clean faced x clean faced = 100% clean faced
Tufted x tufted = 50% tufted, 50% DIS, 25% hatch rate

Inheriting 2 tufted genes is 100% lethal...
 

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