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Good morning all, what have I been up to? Well, having kept poultry, waterfowl and game birds since 1977 I have aways got plenty to do. I'm a breeder of Black Copper Marans, Im introducing new blood lines this year with unrelated hatching eggs in my incubator. I am buying in POL Warren's too...

Yes, I understand that every egg has a blastodisc and when it is fertilised it changes shape and appearance, it becomes a blastoderm and the eggs in question were blastoderm. When the cockerel was removed within a week or two the eggs reverted back to the blastodisc state

Different in some ways but it seems possible .

Regarding the chicken x duck hybrid, my old rooster (now gone) used to tread my ducks everyday. When the eggs were cracked open to be cooked the white dot was often present indicating a fertilised egg. Whether they would hatch or not though is another matter but the fertilisation can and does...

When I had cockerels in a town where I lived I used a cockerel collar, it quietens them down to an acceptable level and does no harm to the bird.

I have the 24 automatic unit, it was good the first year, got good results now I have a terrible hatch rate. I do everything by the book, use bought in eggs and well as my own eggs I produce on my small holding. Pheasants, ducks , chickens all the same bad hatch rates. When it's sitting next...