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My 12 week old SLW cross rooster has been mounting one of our older hens. Any ideas as to when he can actually fertilize eggs? I hope I also have some hens in that brood -- will they start laying this winter or next spring? They'll be 20 weeks at the end of November.

I wondered and wondered what that meant ("she went broody"), until I saw it for myself. It must be hormones: our hen sat on an empty nest. She would not leave, ever. After a couple of days, we got some fertile eggs from a friend who has hens *and* a rooster. We gave those eggs to the broody hen...

A Barred Rock went broody, so we got her some fertile eggs. She faithfully sat, and hatched 5, and cared for them in the first 5-6 weeks. Then, out of the blue, one of the other hens, a Delaware, started taking on the motherly duties of the original broody. Now the chicks (about 8 weeks old) are...