How long a chicken will lay fertilized eggs after mating a rooster? i.e. I had a rooster with some hens and I sold the rooster before a week and want to incubate some eggs I collected from the chickens after selling the rooster( I collected them today and yesterday), are they still fertilized...
What is the earliest time for candling eggs ? i.e. I want to candle some eggs i put under a broody , what is the earliest day I can do this (candle) so i can replace the faked ones with anothers ??
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Is there a way to convince a hen to be broody ? I need some chicks and don't have an incubator, in the last spring 5 of my 20 hens went broody with a good success, but this season no one of them do, can I make a hen sit on some eggs to hatch ??
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I got to the coop today and collected the eggs, then I closed the door on the chickens and separated the rooster with 3 one month old cockerels, but when I went to open the door on them to let them with the flock I found the big rooster sitting on an egg in the nest box !!! what is going on guys...
I know this is a turken (naked neck), but is it pure or not ?? (note the feathers on the neck)
If he mate with a hen (not NN), what is the expected chick to be ??
My chickens behave badly in the last few days, they eat feathers from each others, not all of them do this but some do, what is the problem? can it be in the diet ? I feed them layers food...
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I have this question to ask,
when a rooster mate a hen, what is the period the hen will lay fertilized eggs ?? i.e: a rooster mate with a hen today , will the hen lay one fertilized egg or many fertilized eggs?
is it (one mating) gives (one) fertilized egg or many fertilized ones and if the...
Can cracking an egg and seeing what is inside will help to know if it is fertilized or not ? If yes how can I do this ??
I have heared that there will be some blood spots, is that right ? If yes tell me how..
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