Fertile chickens

[shoo80]

How old does a rooster have to be to be able fertilize a hen and old does the hen have to be to be fertilized? My chickens are only 20 weeks old.

 

[bigzio]

Mother nature has a way of keeping this all figured out. Once the cockeral starts to mate, usually by 20 weeks, he will become more fertile within a short time.

The first pullet eggs are smaller and not the ones you want to hatch.

Once the eggs a larger, you can figure they are fertile, if the pullet to cockeral ratio is good.

Usually one male to 10 to 14 females works out just fine.

bigzio

 

[shoo80]

Will and banty rooster fertilize and standard size chicken? They are practicing right now.

 

[Tsagirl]

How long until the eggs become a good size to start to incubate them?
I am so excited because my frizzles just started to lay and...they are fertilized!