U_Stormcrow
Crossing the Road
Thank you for the link. Accepting the study claims as true, I'm still not worried. The eggs are still going to see three weeks at near 100° which should destroy any virus present. Additionally I suspect that the presence of the virus will result in a non-viable chick long before that three-week hatch date occurs. If it occurs very early in the process, the egg will likely see three or more days near 100 degrees before a candling reveals the lack of progress and the egg is disposed of. Once again, virus destroyed by heat. Now, I wouldn't recommend taking eggs from suspect chickens and licking them, but I'm fairly confident but none of us love our chickens quite that much...Thank you for posting this.
That was my understanding as well. Still planning 2 hatches before the end of June. Thank goodness for this or else Mcamurray would have lost half of their lines…would have made a terrible tragedy much worse.