18 month rooster not mating with 5 year old hens and not getting fertile eggs

tanithcrane

Songster
6 Years
Dec 30, 2016
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Hello everyone
For the last month I have tried to incubate and hatch eggs and out of 14 eggs 1 was fertile but died before hatching the chick formed but just died 5 days before hatch
I thought it was the incubator so I got a hygrometer and another thermoter but incubator is saying 37.5 and the other thermometer is saying 34 I then took other thermometer out and went back to relying on the incubator thermometer but still not having any luck then I noticed I haven't actually seen the rooster mate with the hens and that one time I must have missed it
Is there anyway I can check his fertility or in courage mating
 
For how long do you have this rooster with your hens? If he is a rather recent addition, it might just take more time for him to get acquainted with your flock of hens.

Five years old hens might not accept a young (and new) rooster if he is not polite enough wooing them the right way etc. Sometimes they just don't like him for whatever reasons.

You could add some younger hens to your flock for him to mate, or exchange the rooster.
 

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