Sooooooo disappointed! Just candled my 40 eggs in the bator before I put them in lockdown. I finally got a flashlight strong enough to look thru the dark eggs.
Of the 12 free FBCM eggs from a friend, only 2 were fertile and developing!
Of 7 duck eggs, only 2 developed
Of 5 eggs from another lady, only 2 developed (I paid for 3, got 2 free)
Of the 22 BO FOR my friend, 18 are good And these were the eggs he gave me that were over 2 1/2 weeks old! Go figure!
I cracked open the eggs to see them.. They were not fertile. No blood or anything. Ugh! So out of the whole batch that started with 40 eggs, only 6 will be mine. The others belong to my friend! I am so disappointed that the FBCM eggs were not good! I can't seem to get a dark egg layer. My wheaten Marans stopped laying again. The little BCM I bought a month ago turned into a roo and when the lady went to exchange it,, she only had babies so I traded him for an older OE thinking I was about to hatch a whole batch of FBCM! Oh well. There is always next time!