2 questions...
How many weeks do your Cornish typically lay for? I was about to start everyone under lights this week, but I'm leaving for a week at the end of July and don't want to miss out on fertile eggs for hatching. Hubby doesn't know it yet but he is going to build me a second coop so I can hatch out every Cornish egg this year. I'm thinking I might pull all roosters out this week and put them under lights. When I get back the first week of Aug I can put the 2 hens in the lighted pen and pull the other roosters out so my breeding trio is under lights.
Second- have you ever had a broody pullet??? We got back from vacation and my dark pullet was "missing". Found her in a nest box guarding eggs. She got over it quickly but I wasn't expecting it- as far as I know she has never laid an egg!
How many weeks do your Cornish typically lay for? I was about to start everyone under lights this week, but I'm leaving for a week at the end of July and don't want to miss out on fertile eggs for hatching. Hubby doesn't know it yet but he is going to build me a second coop so I can hatch out every Cornish egg this year. I'm thinking I might pull all roosters out this week and put them under lights. When I get back the first week of Aug I can put the 2 hens in the lighted pen and pull the other roosters out so my breeding trio is under lights.
Second- have you ever had a broody pullet??? We got back from vacation and my dark pullet was "missing". Found her in a nest box guarding eggs. She got over it quickly but I wasn't expecting it- as far as I know she has never laid an egg!