- Feb 20, 2011
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With spring time fast approaching, I can't help but get excited for hatching. I currently have four healthy hens in my urban backyard: 2 Plymouth (or Barred) Rocks, 1 Americana, and 1 Buckeye. I would like some opinions on the plan I have devised.
We would like to get a rooster to breed with our hens. I was thinking of taking home a rooster, letting him spend a day or two with them so that they mate, and then slaughtering him.
Questions: How much work is it to incubate the eggs and build an incubator? Does rooster meat get tough once they become fertile? What is the best way to breed our chickens? (It was my hope to get a Plymouth Rock rooster and let him breed with only the P.R. hens, separating out the other two in the mean time.) After breeding, for how many days are the eggs fertile... two or three? How often do roosters crow... all the time? I am very new to this and any advice would be much appreciated!
We would like to get a rooster to breed with our hens. I was thinking of taking home a rooster, letting him spend a day or two with them so that they mate, and then slaughtering him.
Questions: How much work is it to incubate the eggs and build an incubator? Does rooster meat get tough once they become fertile? What is the best way to breed our chickens? (It was my hope to get a Plymouth Rock rooster and let him breed with only the P.R. hens, separating out the other two in the mean time.) After breeding, for how many days are the eggs fertile... two or three? How often do roosters crow... all the time? I am very new to this and any advice would be much appreciated!
