Hens lay fertile eggs without Rooster?

[Ol Grey Mare]

If she's still laying eggs, she's not broody yet. Leaving a bunch of eggs in a nest will not cause a hen to go broody. If a hen is broody, she will not move from the nest; it won't matter if there are eggs under her or not.

Yep - just ask Gramma D, my perpetually broody brahma who has spent nearly the entire summer determined to hatch air.

 

[cmom]

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This is true. Most breeds are broody in the spring and of course there are exceptions, but generally it's the same as the wild birds. I have had broody's that may have set on no eggs and another steal eggs. Several birds may lay in the same nest and one brood. When the broody gets out of her nest to eat, drink and poop another gal may get into the same nest and lay her egg. Most of the year they are not broody.

 

[Ch1ckChick]

No but sometimes they will lay a egg with another egg inside

 

[cmom]

No but sometimes they will lay a egg with another egg inside

You are correct.

 

[Gamecocker1998]

Can A hen lay eggs for two roosters at the exact same time

 

[TherryChicken]

Can A hen lay eggs for two roosters at the exact same time  

No 1 egg a day

 

[Rod-T]

I picked up a free rooster off Craigslist. . The said he has no roosters. ..since he's not allowed. .he has Bo hens.. one went broody and hatched 3 chicks.. only 1.. this rooster survived.
He was big white with brown dirty feathers mixed in.
I thought he was just lieing to me.i figure it was a red sexlink rooster since he was mostly white..
But he said all he had was Orpington hens.

 

[Rod-T]

I really think that hens have to be exposed to a rooster.
But once the rooster is gone.. I think that eggs can pop up fertilized longer then we think

 

[junebuggena]

I picked up a free rooster off Craigslist. . The said he has no roosters. ..since he's not allowed. .he has Bo hens.. one went broody and hatched 3 chicks.. only 1.. this rooster survived.
He was big white with brown dirty feathers mixed in.
I thought he was just lieing to me.i figure it was a red sexlink rooster since he was mostly white..
But he said all he had was Orpington hens.

Red sexlinks are the result of a silver-base colored hen and a red rooster. Buff Orpingtons are not a silver based color, but they can carry dominant white and produce mostly white chicks.

 

[Rod-T]

Red sexlinks are the result of a silver-base colored hen and a red rooster. Buff Orpingtons are not a silver based color, but they can carry dominant white and produce mostly white chicks.

Ya I just thought he might have bought some red sexlink. And one turned out to be a rooster.
I guess it's possible that his Bo got breed by a white rock?
But he had no roosters.. he said his neighbors didn't either.. strange..
I got rid of him with old hens. I do have a few of his babies.. but the babies turned out just like the mothers.color wise.