Anything you tried that seemed to result in very poor hatches?
I've never had a lot of luck with shipped eggs but I've only tried a few times.
I always set them in cartons for 24 hours then placed in incubator and started turning them the next day.
You say "F1" so I assume one parent was a laced and one wasn't?
The reason I don't mess with laced birds and mixing them is because it takes 3 seperate genes to make the pattern.
When you cross then you want to get back to laced that's more genes that you have to get correct again.
Seems like a...
Surprisingly the gold laced sell really well here.
Those and the BLR sell for the same. SL out sells them both.
It's country folk here so I think there's appeal in the tried and true. Barred Rocks out sell everything.