Crazy Rooster

[speckledhen]

Did you quarantine him for a month before you put him with your hens? Rooster stud service is really not a safe thing to do, I hate to say. He could be a disease carrier with no outward signs of it. Hopefully, he isn't and things will go well.

 

[Cetawin]

I agree with Speckledhen on the quarantine...all new birds on your property should be quarantined for 30 days before being placed near your existing flock. As a precaution, they can appear healthy yet be carriers that in turn infect your flock. Do be cautious next time.

Secondly, and most importantly, do you have a broody hen? If your hens are not broody, they will not just automatically sit on the eggs just because they are fertile. That includes Silkies.

Good luck to you in this endeavor.

 

[Lollipop]

Did you quarantine him for a month before you put him with your hens? Rooster stud service is really not a safe thing to do, I hate to say. He could be a disease carrier with no outward signs of it. Hopefully, he isn't and things will go well.

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I agree with Speckledhen on the quarantine...all new birds on your property should be quarantined for 30 days before being placed near your existing flock. As a precaution, they can appear healthy yet be carriers that in turn infect your flock. Do be cautious next time.

Secondly, and most importantly, do you have a broody hen? If your hens are not broody, they will not just automatically sit on the eggs just because they are fertile. That includes Silkies.

Good luck to you in this endeavor.

The way it reads, it's a little late for that. Maybe it will be remembered. Hope all goes well.

Just thinking about the subject of broodiness being bred out of that RIR hen. Could be that the cross with the new rooster will change that trend in the offsring. Good luck on all counts............Pop

 

[linda2012]

Oh my gosh, I had no idea. Well hopefully my son let me borrow a healthy roo. He raises chickens and sells them as a side business so hopefully he's been careful about taking care of his chickens. And yes luckily I have a broody silkie, I'm going to try to get my other silkie to go broody. I put some golf balls in her nest, somewhere I read that may help. Otherwise they look pretty silly in their nest.