I have some Scots Dumpys coming in July, they also have this gene when bred short leg to short leg.
I am too nervous about dropping them. Plus, there's not much to see before one week LOL!You have the patience of a saint! I have candled 3 times already.
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I candle mine to check for cracks, porous shells, and which end the air cell is on (with some of my eggs, it's hard to tell and I have incubated a couple upside down because I didn't check them) the day I set them. I likely won't candle again until I move them to the hatcher on day 18 or 19 (whenever I get around to it.)
That is the first time I have heard that BJBs have a fatal allel. I will have to do some research on that just for my own curiousity. I have had whole hatches that died in the shell in the last three days of incubation. I opened the eggs to find 40+ fully developed dead chicks. I still don't know for sure what caused it, but it hasn't happened to that degree since. I still do have a few die late from time to time, but I also have a few that are not fertile, a few that are early quitters, and a few that quit mid cycle.
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Fatal allel in BJB - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_bantam
Yep, found it in several locations. That is interesting. I am not surprised to find that I have never heard of it, I don't raise bantams at all - I'm a LF girl!
Oh, that's so sad. I had three in my last hatch and two were turkens. All day 20/21 deaths. My three turkens that hatched were the last three out of 16. I began to think it was a turken thing...lolI have bought from them as well. Great experience.
I candle mine to check for cracks, porous shells, and which end the air cell is on (with some of my eggs, it's hard to tell and I have incubated a couple upside down because I didn't check them) the day I set them. I likely won't candle again until I move them to the hatcher on day 18 or 19 (whenever I get around to it.)
That is the first time I have heard that BJBs have a fatal allel. I will have to do some research on that just for my own curiousity. I have had whole hatches that died in the shell in the last three days of incubation. I opened the eggs to find 40+ fully developed dead chicks. I still don't know for sure what caused it, but it hasn't happened to that degree since. I still do have a few die late from time to time, but I also have a few that are not fertile, a few that are early quitters, and a few that quit mid cycle.
ETA:
Fatal allel in BJB - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_bantam
Yep, found it in several locations. That is interesting. I am not surprised to find that I have never heard of it, I don't raise bantams at all - I'm a LF girl!
Me either, it's so hard waiting!!!Can't wait to candle this weekend and see how many are developing!
With a bright light, you can pick up the "pool" that will form around the embryo late on day 2, and a definite embryo with the heartbeat by day 3 or 4.
