Can you eat fertile eggs?

[Mac14]

Now following this thread!

 

[steelchair]

My big roo doesn't try to breed with my bantams. My bantam roos do breed with my standard hens though.

 

[chickens2000]

i didn't think that mine did but i saw them one day and more sense

 

[mommy of two]

At what age do they start mating?

 

[Habibs Hens]

At what age do they start mating?

Roos can mature at 10-15 weeks old but as pullets don't lay till later around 18-22 weeks it's usually pointless for them


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[mommy of two]

Ok, ours are about 8 weeks now. I can't wait to get some eggs!

 

[steelchair]

You will know when the roo wants to start breeding by the noise. The roo will try to grab a hen anyway he can. This usually upsets the hen quite a bit. With some practise your roo will get the hang of it.

 

[aoxa]

I find the crowing and mating almost always go hand in hand. As soon as the rooster crows, he starts mating.. Not always, but 90% of the times I have experienced it.

The pullets are not ready for a man until they are ready to lay eggs, so at first they are usually set against being mated.. so there is a lot of forcing in the beginning. Poor girls.

 

[DixieChicken78]

Love this thread!

 

[BCMaraniac]

I am not sure. I got the eggs from a coworker and threw them in the bator. I got two black cochin roos, one cochin hen, one hen i am not sure of, and big baby.

I'm sorry steelchair....I was just joking around.....and I dated myself as old in the process. I don't know if you have heard of Dan Fogelberg, a singer/songwriter popular in the late 70's into the 90's. He recorded an album released in 1978 called "Twin Sons of Different Mothers", which is what the comment was about. You are probably much younger than me.