Ok this may come across as a weird question but can you put your rooster to "stud" by isolated him with only the hens that you want bred or will he only breed with his "chosen"?
I do that all the time with different roosters and Ladies..
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Ok this may come across as a weird question but can you put your rooster to "stud" by isolated him with only the hens that you want bred or will he only breed with his "chosen"?
PD_Riverman does it greatly increase the fertility of the eggs? As it appears that I only have one rooster for 18 hens so was thinking if that's the case then I will just swap out ego he gets to be worth so therfore i will have fertile eggs when someone goes broody. Is this a correct thought?
Ok this may come across as a weird question but can you put your rooster to "stud" by isolated him with only the hens that you want bred Not weird and yes.or will he only breed with his "chosen"?
I have a broody hen that was sitting on eggs for 1 week. She got out of the broody coop/pen today (not sure how or for how long)- but she could not get back in. Eggs were at ambient temperature (70s) when I got home. When I put her back in the enclosure she went right back to the eggs. Not sur the odds of success - how long have people had eggs go uncovered and still have success? I'm happy it was in the 70s and not the 30s!
I have a second broody now - this one a welsummer (the other is a Cochin). I don't have a separate place for her (at least not one she'll accept). How do multiple Broodys do together? Will they share space and just mind their own eggs/chicks or is putting them together a disaster waiting to happen?
They will probably be ok---just have to give them time. I know some do not take broody hens as serious as I do---But I rarely have problems with my broodies. I just move ALL of them to private hatching pens. I had 67 broodies hens in one year---I moved all 67 to private hatching pens and they all stayed and they all hatched, rarely loosing a chick after the hatch. Never come home to a broody in the wrong nest or trapped out her nest, never having eggs go cold.
I had 2 broodies in pens side by side---when they hatched their chicks---if a chick got under the wire and into the pen beside it----that broody killed it. Happen more than once which was another reason to build private broody pens.
That brings up a question I have for anyone who wants to chime in.
Do you always let your broodys hatch eggs or do you sometimes break them? If you do let them all hatch what in the world do you do with all the chickens? Just wondered because I have a lot of chickens and a lot of broodys. I would love to let them all set because I feel guilty when I dont let them have a chance at motherhood at least one time. But I really dont need anymore chickens. If you sell them at what age do you let them go?
Any replies greatly appreciated.
Marie