Floating

[Guest redlad24]

i was on another thread last nite saying that my stock were a bit later laying than the racers, whats the max and min amount of days that the hen stops sitting or if its too earl a hatch???

[Guest redlad24]

any1 please?

[Guest JonesyBhoy]

i don't quiet understand the question..

 

maybe try rephrasing it...

[OLDYELLOW]

no more than 3 days difference between or foster parents will abandon them

[Guest IB]

Eggs due to hatch later than the foster pair's is the tricky one: 3 days later is the most I'd try, I've come a cropper at 5, and would rather 'still' the eggs for a few days before floating them.

 

Eggs due to hatch earlier are not as bad, the fear amongst fanciers has always been that the foster pair wouldn't have crop milk for a youngster hatching out say a week earlier. I spent some time looking into that, before putting it into practice: pigeons start producing crop milk as soon as they start sitting their eggs, so 7 days early is OK.

[OLDYELLOW]

Eggs due to hatch later than the foster pair's is the tricky one: 3 days later is the most I'd try, I've come a cropper at 5, and would rather 'still' the eggs for a few days before floating them.

 

Eggs due to hatch earlier are not as bad, the fear amongst fanciers has always been that the foster pair wouldn't have crop milk for a youngster hatching out say a week earlier. I spent some time looking into that, before putting it into practice: pigeons start producing crop milk as soon as they start sitting their eggs, so 7 days early is OK.

yup much better to pair stock one week earlier then the race team then eggs should kept stored until second egg laid by foster parents , then swapped

[Guest redlad24]

thanks again, i had a pair last yr that i floated, but they hatched 5 days earlier under the foster pair, she sitted them for a day, did this ever happen any of ye???