We don't have a rooster and one of our hens became broody. We really needed to replenish our flock, so we slipped in some of my friends fertilized eggs in place of some of the unfertilized clutch eggs she was sitting on. We marked them to know which ones to keep an eye on. After only four of...
We currently have a flock of 8 chickens. We have a Wydandotte cockerel / rooster that is just now turning one year old. We purchased him along with a batch of "guaranteed" pullets last Spring. Our other rooster had died months before, so we thought it was great timing for this pullet to...