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wil leaving a rooster with hens for less than a day promise fertility?

post #1 of 4
4/16/12 at 10:41pm
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in my area i am not permitted to keep roosters but i have a friend who is willing to let me borrow his rooster to make my hens egg fertile so i can hatch them out?

Mixed flock consisting of Welsummer,Araucana,Australorp and Leghorn.

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Mixed flock consisting of Welsummer,Araucana,Australorp and Leghorn.

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post #2 of 4
4/16/12 at 10:56pm

The short and honest answer is NO.  If the roo is shy or the hens want to get to know hi first, you could end up with what you started with.  You would have better luck taking the hens to the Roo, but still at less than a day, there would be no guarantee.  10 days is the minimum I would leave them together for best results.

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post #3 of 4
4/17/12 at 5:16am

You are better off buying hatching eggs from someone else. Hens do not automatically submit to any old rooster; they often fight with him, injuring one or both of them.

 

Also, there is the disease factor. You could be introducing disease (you cannot always see a carrier situation like Mycoplasmosis or Coryza) to your hen or the hen to the rooster, even. It's not a good idea at all.

 

~A dog on its owner's property is a pet; A dog on someone else's property is a predator~

 

 

Living the Good Life in the North Georgia Mountains~ Cynthia

 

 

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~A dog on its owner's property is a pet; A dog on someone else's property is a predator~

 

 

Living the Good Life in the North Georgia Mountains~ Cynthia

 

 

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post #4 of 4
4/17/12 at 5:23am
I have to agree with the others for the same reasons. You'll be much better off getting hatching eggs from your friend instead of borrowing his rooster.
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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought....Abraham Lincoln (Freedom carries responsibility)

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.....Judge Learned Hand  (The more sure your are that your way is the only right way, the more likely you are wrong.)
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