Breeding

[Cameron_8]

Right now I have separated my bcm rooster with my 3 barred rock and ameraucana Hens, how long will it take them to be together if I want the offspring to be his?

 

[NatJ]

That long! Wow, what do you think the chances of him being the father next week?

Next week, MOST eggs will probably have chicks with him as the father.

It depends on whether you want most of the chicks to have him as a father, or whether you want to be absolutely certain about who the father is.

3 weeks or a month is based on needing to be very sure.

 

[nuthatched]

Right before I moved them

It can take up to a month (or more, in some interesting cases) for a hen to not lay fertilized eggs after mating. So end of the month or next month.

 

[Cameron_8]

It can take up to a month (or more, in some interesting cases) for a hen to not lay fertilized eggs after mating. So next month.

That long! Wow, what do you think the chances of him being the father next week?

 

[NatJ]

Do you think I will be able to tell his chicks apart from my other roos?

Maybe.

What other males do you have?
And what color are the hens?
Descriptions can work, photos are even better.

 

[NatJ]

Do you think I will be able to tell his chicks apart from my other roos?

Wow, you have quite a collection of roosters!

When trying to sort out chicks, I think you can be pretty sure of these:
--chicks with a crest on top of their head have a crested parent. From not-crested mothers, that means a crested father.

--chicks with feathered legs must have a feather-legged parent. From clean legged mothers, that means a feather-legged father.

--Some of the crested roosters may have V combs. Any chicks with a V comb or even a comb like a Buttercup has, would have a v-comb father.

--From the Barred Rock hens, any chicks with muff/beard have a father with muff/beard. (Chicks from a bearded mother can have a beard even when the father does not.)

Feather colors get more complicated, partly because you have so many options on both sides.

--The Barred Rock hens should give you sexlinked chicks, definitely with your preferred rooster and I think with any of the other roosters as well. Chicks with white barring would be males, chicks with no white barring would be females. If any chick from a Barred Rock is all white, then your preferred rooster is not the father, and of course you can't tell if a white chick has white barring.

--From the Ameraucana hens, any chicks that grow up all black probably have the all-black rooster as their father.

Unfortunately, that leaves quite a few possible chicks that you can't tell the father for sure.
But even recognizing some of the possible chicks can help figure out whether the BCM rooster sired all of the chicks, some of the chicks, or none of the chicks.

 

[nuthatched]

How long since the hens were around another rooster?

 

[Cameron_8]

How long since the hens were around another rooster?

Right before I moved them

 

[NatJ]

Wait about three weeks before you start collecting eggs, if you want to be pretty sure of who the father is.

 

[nuthatched]

That long! Wow, what do you think the chances of him being the father next week?

few chicks will be his if you set eggs in a week, if the hens accept him.