I loved Rons birds. I took them out of the breeding pen this morning. Getting 2 Nigerian goats and need that pen for them. Ill put the reds back when I can and see what happens. Might test in a month or so just to see who is the problem. Did hatch one chick today. The other egg made it to lock down but nothing.You are not that far from me. I have lots of roosters. Give them a few more months to mature but you could come and pick one out. I don't have that many pullets so I can't promise I'll have any available. Right now I don't.
I do have 1 roo from last year that I was keeping as a backup. But I clearly won't need him. He has frostbite but is fertile. Right now he is in with a couple of young pullets just starting to lay and a few younger pullets but the eggs I'm getting from his pen are fertile and have been even when I had lots of full size pullets with him. He came from eggs that I hatched from the Fogle hens and a Fogle rooster.