Hi, my incubator is arriving tomorrow! It will fit 7 eggs. Right now I have 9 hens and a rooster who give me 5-8 fertile eggs a day. The Breeds are Rooster-easter egger Hens-2 red sex link, barred rock, 2 leghorn, one cuckoo maran, 1 speckled sussex, 1 SL wyandotte and one cream legbar. These are just educated guesses, and there's a good chance some of them are mixes. I am hatching for dual purpose, I plan to eat the roos and integrate the hens. Here are my questions...
1.Whose eggs would you try to get/why?
2.Would you try to accumulate alike eggs, or go for a mix of 7 you got in one day?
3. If I have only seen my roo breed a couple of the hens, should I assume he is breeding all of them? Or just try to get eggs from birds that I have seen him breed?
I have a small incubator so I really would like to go for the best hatch rate possible. Which starts with egg selection. Thanks so much for any input.
The eggs in question...
The rooster and some of the hens in question.
1.Whose eggs would you try to get/why?
2.Would you try to accumulate alike eggs, or go for a mix of 7 you got in one day?
3. If I have only seen my roo breed a couple of the hens, should I assume he is breeding all of them? Or just try to get eggs from birds that I have seen him breed?
I have a small incubator so I really would like to go for the best hatch rate possible. Which starts with egg selection. Thanks so much for any input.
The eggs in question...
The rooster and some of the hens in question.
