Has anyone tried borrowing a rooster to make fertile eggs?

[chateau poulet]

For those of us that can't have roosters, has anyone tried borrowing a rooster, or sending a hen on a date with a rooster, to get fertile eggs? Have you noticed a change in a hen's temperament after hatching eggs? Do they become more or less dominant/aggressive?

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

For those of us that can't have roosters, has anyone tried borrowing a rooster, or sending a hen on a date with a rooster, to get fertile eggs? Have you noticed a change in a hen's temperament after hatching eggs? Do they become more or less dominant/aggressive?

This is an often considered idea by those who are unfamiliar with the whole idea - but it is rather problematic on several fronts. If one practices good bio-security, the whole idea flies in the face of that. If done properly you would be looking at months - 30 days quarantine at the outset, then the time involved in integration of a new bird (days to weeks), then the time involved in the bird being in the flock to get to the point of likely fertility of eggs being laid then quarantine on the end side before reintegration back into the original flock for whichever bird (hen or rooster) that was moved to a new flock. All of this is on top of, if one's goal is to have the hen hatch the eggs, having to have the hen go broody during this time - otherwise she will have zero interest in hatching the eggs, fertile or not.
Easier is to simply source some fertile hatching eggs from someone who already has a flock that is producing fertile eggs and putting them under a broody hen.

 

[donrae]

This is an often considered idea by those who are unfamiliar with the whole idea - but it is rather problematic on several fronts. If one practices good bio-security, the whole idea flies in the face of that. If done properly you would be looking at months - 30 days quarantine at the outset, then the time involved in integration of a new bird (days to weeks), then the time involved in the bird being in the flock to get to the point of likely fertility of eggs being laid then quarantine on the end side before reintegration back into the original flock for whichever bird (hen or rooster) that was moved to a new flock. All of this is on top of, if one's goal is to have the hen hatch the eggs, having to have the hen go broody during this time - otherwise she will have zero interest in hatching the eggs, fertile or not.
Easier is to simply source some fertile hatching eggs from someone who already has a flock that is producing fertile eggs and putting them under a broody hen.

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Plus, if you can't keep a rooster for breeding, what are you going to do with the cockerels you hatch out? Easier to buy sexed pullets imo.

 

[Joplus]

Bio security aside which I'm not about to do. But I have a friend who is allowed to have roosters, I was hoping to give mine to him and get my same roosters back from time to time. But I guess they won't like them?