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[OR4-hmom]

Question from a novice. When can I think about hatching my pullets eggs?

 

[ronott1]

Question from a novice. When can I think about hatching my pullets eggs?

When the eggs are about 2 oz for large fowl. The rooster needs to be mating with the hens for a couple of weeks and if you want chicks from a certain rooster, you have to keep wait 3 to 4 weeks after the other roosters have been separated out.

You can incubate smaller eggs, but they may not be fertile and you may have more quitters and not healthy chicks.

I would have a hard time waiting....When I hatched my own, before Animal control busted me for having roos, The hens were all laying big enough eggs.

 

[ronott1]

Hmmmm.....

Here is mine:

 

[Gomes Bantams]

Here is mine:

 

[debs_flock]

Question from a novice. When can I think about hatching my pullets eggs?

I've hatched lots of pullet eggs and have had no problem with them. If I had to choose, I'd go with a hen's egg, but give it go.

Deb

 

[OR4-hmom]

When the eggs are about 2 oz for large fowl. The rooster needs to be mating with the hens for a couple of weeks and if you want chicks from a certain rooster, you have to keep wait 3 to 4 weeks after the other roosters have been separated out.

You can incubate smaller eggs, but they may not be fertile and you may have more quitters and not healthy chicks.

I would have a hard time waiting....When I hatched my own, before Animal control busted me for having roos, The hens were all laying big enough eggs.

The ones I would start with are the bantams. They have always been kept as pairs so as long as the boys are fertile. The little orp's eggs are almost as big as my brahma bantam eggs and she is 2 years old. Most of the large fowl around my place are hatchery birds. Besides a dutch bantam x light brahma seems strange to me.

 

[ronott1]

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Get those eggs into an incubator!

 

[OR4-hmom]

Actually under a hen. I've got a PR that everytime I go in the coop she is in a box or looking for an egg. She missed out this summer and is acting ready again. No power outage worries that way.

 

[ronott1]

Actually under a hen. I've got a PR that everytime I go in the coop she is in a box or looking for an egg. She missed out this summer and is acting ready again. No power outage worries that way.

Did you join the NYD hatch?

I hope they hatch!

 

[zooweemama]

Yes! put the in their place...

The lights are working! 9 eggs today from 13 hens!

9 eggs! Woot!!