Ameraucana/Maran Mix question

[Koko Acres]

Thank you!

 

[Revkimberlysflock]

Well I had a classic case of counting my chickens before they hatched. When I candled at day 10 they were all infertile. The breeder kindly replaced them with another batch of 13 and I just threw away 11 of those this morning that were also infertile. I have two in the incubator right now, only one showing proper development. I’m in denial about the second one. It looks like I’m going to have a lonely little Ameraucana if she/he hatches. I took a picture of that one “$100 egg” this morning. I’ll keep that picture to look at the next time I think I’d like to order expensive hatching eggs. lol!

Oh my, that stinks! I too had an experience with lavender americauna's. We love the blue eggs. However out of 8, only two hatched and one of them was deformed poor baby was dead in the coop at about a month old. It lived all that time and then appeared to have gotten trampled.

 

[Koko Acres]

Oh my, that stinks! I too had an experience with lavender americauna's. We love the blue eggs. However out of 8, only two hatched and one of them was deformed poor baby was dead in the coop at about a month old. It lived all that time and then appeared to have gotten trampled.

Oh I am so sorry to hear that. I wonder if there is generally lower fertility with Ameraucana.