Broody hen

[Dinosaur Village Keeper]

I ordered my girls from mypetchicken and have also ordered the eggs from there for my broody mama. I did not know about the inbred thing in chickens, but it certainly makes sense!

 

[sassychickens76]

Sounds like you are all clear! I just don't want anyone to make the same mistake as me.

 

[sassychickens76]

I just wanted to share this, this was Uno before he died.

 

[RooStar Chicken Gang]

How long does it take from when rooster mounts chook, till eggs r fertile. The next egg they lay? A few weeks away? Different for each bird?

 

[sassychickens76]

I have no idea. You can start a different thread so people will know you question but for now.................
@aart
@Wyorp Rock
@azygous

 

[azygous]

A rooster mates a hen, transferring his sperm to her cloaca, she does a sassy shimmy to get the sperm to move up inside the cloaca, then the sperm make their way all the way up the canal to where the yolk has been released, and fertilization takes place up there. Then the albumen or white gets laid down over the fertilized yolk, moves on down to the shell gland eventually and gets wrapped up in a shell. http://www.geauga4h.org/poultry/repro_tract_hen.htm

One mating can produce sperm that will continue to fertilize yolks in a hen for up to two weeks.

 

[NatJ]

How long does it take from when rooster mounts chook, till eggs r fertile. The next egg they lay? A few weeks away? Different for each bird?

Probably the egg after next. And all eggs will be fertile for the next week, often for two weeks, and sometimes for up to three weeks (depends on the rooster and the hen).

The egg must get fertilized before the white and the shell are added.
So when they mate, it might already be too late for tomorrow's egg, but the eggs after that should be fertile.

 

[RooStar Chicken Gang]

Thanks Natj for good reply. And azygous.