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I am at a loss! All the birds look like hens and act like hens. We have about 40% fertilized eggs though. I had another chicken farmer look at what I thought were fertile eggs, and he agreed with me. I tried to get some pictures to post here, but could not get the eggs to show up without too...

*JustChicky* : Ososchicken, a couple months ago I read this on the University of Florida website about a hen turning into a rooster and thought this part was strange "There are reports of these ovotestes producing semen capable of fathering offspring." Here is the whole section. How does sex...

Quote: I will get pictures of the fertilized eggs. We are definitely not talking about blood spots. We have had a couple of those and I had a debate with my mother on those at Christmas time. She was convinced we were giving her fertilized eggs. No, these that we have now are the classic...

We have had the suspect hens/rooster for around 4 weeks. But, we got ALL of the birds from the previous owners (all the birds they owned). They were completely penned up in a chain link coop with no way of getting out or other roosters (none in the area anyway - city) getting in. We thought...

How old is your hen that is laying the small ones - can you identify which one it is? We have been averaging one small egg a day from our older hens - sometimes from an Araucana and other times a brown egg from one of the others. My 4 year old son loves to get his special eggs for breakfast...

I actually joined to ask the same question. Although, I am asking from a different perspective. We were given about 40 hens ranging from 1 year to 3 years old. The last group of ten were given to us 4 weeks ago. Two nights ago my wife cracked an egg that had a developing chick inside. We...