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best ,simplest & most concise explanation of single pen breeding I've every seen in print- thanks Fred's hensI do. Do this. Put that K away from the birds on Aug 1st. Let him see those females through his fence. Let him rest for two weeks and oogle those females. When you mate him up with that pullet (although she's a year now, isn't she?) in a separate place. He'll be very, very loaded for bear. Collect her eggs for 4 days. Pull him back out. Her eggs will still be fertile another 8-10 days. There's your batch to hatch. Maybe 8-10 good, fresh, fertile eggs.
Then, rinse and repeat. Leaving him on her alone for 14 straight days is too rough for her. No need. If he's penned with her alone for 3 or 4 days, That's more than plenty to fertilize her for the following 8-10 days. Since I only like to set eggs that are 10-12 days old, max, Perfect. This is single pen breeding or single mating as it's called.
best ,simplest & most concise explanation of single pen breeding I've every seen in print- thanks Fred's hens