Ameraucana Forum
The Official Ameraucana Forum => Housing, Health & Hatching => Topic started by: Mike Gilbert on January 01, 2021, 07:45:01 PM
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So I have some chicks out to start the new year. Overall, only 62% of the eggs set produced baby chicks. But in Ameraucana bantams, there were 25 chicks out of 29 eggs set. Not bad for December eggs in Wisconsin. A nice mix of Wheaten, Blue Wheaten, Silver, Black, and Brown Red. Those are the only Ameraucana varieties I'm breeding from right now in bantams. It's not a lot, but it's a start. I mainly wanted to check fertility on the male breeders, and they all came through.
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Congrats Mike! That is a nice size hatch. My first batch of white bantam hatch this week. At the time I set the eggs one of the hens and one of the pullets was laying. The hen's eggs were fertile and the pullets were not. I shall be interested to see how fertility is with the next batch I set. Nothing much else is laying here in Missouri.
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Michael, if the pullet's eggs are not fertile this year, don't give up on her. Sometimes a male rejects a female or vice versa. I understand that females can even eject sperm from a male they don't like. So that pullet might work with a different male next year or later this year.