Can I incubate Pullet eggs?.....

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Thank you Lisa .... I agree, a month is a fairly safe bet.

Thanks ALL for your opinions and info on your past experiences! My Pullets have been laying for about six weeks and seem to be very healthy. From what your saying, I think I might try a few eggs in the incubator and see what happens.
Wish me luck.... !

My only experience was oversized chicks that couldn't move enough to pip

Good luck!
Krista

Being a naturalist, I believe staying as close to nature as possible is the healthiest way.

That being said, I would assume a hen reaches maturity before going broody for a reason and the eggs she would produce during this time would be of the healthiest stock.

Someone said earlier about mis-shapen eggs, X-hard shells, etc. I think this would be the biggest potential problems.

Technically (from what I understand), a pullet is anything less than a year. If your pullet is laying decent sized eggs regularly, then you should be fine.

Shane

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Correct.

A rooster helps tho

Yeah, I guess that does help some, LOL. Never underestimate the rooster!!

Shane

My luck with incubators is not great, so I depend on broody hens. As an aside, when I cross two non broody breeds, I get hens who like to go broody in the first month of laying and then never do again--go figure! Anyhow, If you've been hatching chickens at all you know it doesn't always go well for every egg. I have been googling the pullet egg question and I hear a lot of alarmism. So far no one has said they tried it and got deformed chicks--although lots of people predict this outcome. Frankly if an egg doesn't hatch, for me, it's an "Oh well!"

All that said, I have a young hen (half Easter Egger and half Leghorn) who has as of today has laid 78 eggs in a row--no days off-- and though she is full size, her eggs are just now getting up to medium size. Earlier, I put one of her very smallish eggs under two different broody hens--one hatched one didn't. "Oh well." The hatched chick, is still slightly smaller than her group, but very vigorous.

As another experiment, I just put four pullet eggs (less than a month of laying and pee wee to small size) under another hen and will know more in a couple weeks. Consensus seems to be that some hatch, some don't but I think the prediction of deformities is over-rated. Really, if it were possible to eliminate all life's risks, wouldn't it be boring?