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[RoosterLew]

About how long does an egg stay fertile after a roo is separated or gone?

If you will read enough, you will discover the answer to your question is somewhere between 4 days and 4 weeks! LOL

I've researched this for the correct answer...ALOT.
Even the "Highly educated chicken experts"...don't agree!

As GC stated though, the commonly accepted practice amongst breeders is 3-4 weeks.

If you are wanting to guarantee roo A's presence is no with your hens, they say to wait a month before introducing roo B. I wasn't going to incubate anymore this year but when my roo died, I thought I would try and see if he got lucky.

CG

 

[jerryse]

My roo has a scissor beak..he seems to be the same size as my other chicks his age, so he is getting enough food/water , we love him!

This is genetic . Do not breed from him as you will pass the defect on . Just catching up after a vacation .

 

[jerryse]

If you will read enough, you will discover the answer to your question is somewhere between 4 days and 4 weeks! LOL

I've researched this for the correct answer...ALOT.
Even the "Highly educated chicken experts"...don't agree!

As GC stated though, the commonly accepted practice amongst breeders is 3-4 weeks.

I remove a rooster and save eggs to hatch for a week . Then put in a new rooster and wait a week before saving eggs . Usually no mistakes hatch . However if no new rooster is added you may get a occasional fertile egg past 2 weeks . I have continued to set eggs after removing a rooster and found fertility drops to nearly zero after 10 days . Some say the daddy is the rooster who bred the hen the day before . Hens do store semen so basically last in first used .

 

[janetaba]

I'm hoping that you folks can help me on something. The little one in this picture is the same age
as all the rest, but doesn't seem to be growing that fast. Is she a bantam perhaps?
She is supposed to be either an EE or a Speckled Sussex.



Here is another picture of her.

 

[estamets]

I'm hoping that you folks can help me on something. The little one in this picture is the same age
as all the rest, but doesn't seem to be growing that fast. Is she a bantam perhaps?
She is supposed to be either an EE or a Speckled Sussex.



Here is another picture of her.

Is she the same age as the others in the picture?
My Sussex is growing much slower than my other girls, but the difference was never as big as the difference between your little one and the others in the picture.

 

[janetaba]

Yes, they are all within a couple of days old of each other. We bought the Americana's/EE's first then went back the next day and bought the Sussex's.

 

[RoosterLew]

Yes, they are all within a couple of days old of each other. We bought the Americana's/EE's first then went back the next day and bought the Sussex's.

I'd say you may have gotten A Bantam mixed in with the rest?

BTW..Try to say that word outloud...Sussex's...Sussex'eses.....Sus...sex...'sssss

Now do it holding your tongue.

BET YA CAN'T!!

 

[janetaba]

Is there such a thing as a Bantam Speckled Sussex??

Because that what she looks like to me. Her feet are the same color and she's got the same coloring as the other Speckled Sussex's.

Oh, another thing, because she's so small, they are all picking on her - as in pulling her feathers out. I saw them doing it today. It seems to have just started. Should I pull her out and put her back in their old box for the time being?

 

[estamets]

Is there such a thing as a Bantam Speckled Sussex??

Because that what she looks like to me. Her feet are the same color and she's got the same coloring as the other Speckled Sussex's.

Oh, another thing, because she's so small, they are all picking on her - as in pulling her feathers out. I saw them doing it today. It seems to have just started. Should I pull her out and put her back in their old box for the time being?

I would separate her and make sure she gets lots of protein. Maybe she'll catch up...?

 

[kenzier093]

Ok, so right now I have two roosters in one pen with all of the hens/pullets due to not enough room right now. They are not separated at all so they are both breeding same hens and what not. When I separate them and keep them separated with Rooster A in one pen and rooster B in another and they start breeding all the hens in each of their pens, will the other roosters semen fade out? If so, will it take up to a month?