How can you tell!?

[jcfuente51]

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Okay wait, I'm confused here. I thought that all eggs with a broody hen had to have the same estimated hatch date. How can she lay 10 to 12 in one day??

nooooooo hahahah what i menat its that lets say u have a hen and a roo and she has special place to lay eggs if u leave the eggs day by day after she has layed about 10 or 12 she will go broody its natural thing that they have after they see all those eggs tha tshe has layed she will just sit and decided to have babys.. not all hens do that but most of mine do.. i hope i explained my self better these time.

in other words lets say u dont even know where your hen lays eggs and after few wekks u will notice that she is "gone" lol but she isnt she its warming those eggs she gather all the time she was laying then decided to have babys or u may even think she desapired and after 22 days she would show up to your back door with her babys running around asking for food . hehehe i love chikens!!!

 

[Mallory]

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Yes I was being sarcastic in my head when I wrote that. lol Guess it didn't shine through over the net.

Okay so am I to understand that just because an egg is fertilized, it doesn't need to be set/incubated/layed on by the hen and it will still survive? For how long? I didn't know this!! I've never roamed outside owning dogs, cats, and the occasional parakeet. So... I guess I thought that the roo had to fertilize the egg, hen lays the egg, hen sits on egg immediately, and how ever many days later the chick hatches. Quick someone give me the sex-ed class for chickens. I apparently missed that day in school.

 

[jcfuente51]

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hehe long story short yeah!!!

 

[jcfuente51]

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Yes I was being sarcastic in my head when I wrote that. lol Guess it didn't shine through over the net.

Okay so am I to understand that just because an egg is fertilized, it doesn't need to be set/incubated/layed on by the hen and it will still survive? For how long? I didn't know this!! I've never roamed outside owning dogs, cats, and the occasional parakeet. So... I guess I thought that the roo had to fertilize the egg, hen lays the egg, hen sits on egg immediately, and how ever many days later the chick hatches. Quick someone give me the sex-ed class for chickens. I apparently missed that day in school.

last year my sister wanted to have chicks that are naked neck so since i had a naked neck hen but was too young and didnt think she could go broody i colected all the eggs she layed in a period of 3 weeks colected total of 12 eggs then mi sisters hen went broody and we stucked them all under her and she hatched them all even tho some were 3 weeks old ofcourse i keep them in a fresh room not a fridge but just a fresh room but the sad thing was that non of them were naked neck they all ended up like the dad we were so upsad

but she went broody just a month a go and she ended up with 5 naked neck and 3 no naked neck lol one die in a water bowl it was too deep and i didnt take it away and other was bllind and die too

but the rest are so cute even tho my nice say that my naked neck are ugly

 

[sourland]

Eggs can remain fertile for three weeks or longer without being incubated, but fertility diminishes somewhat after ten to fourteen days.

 

[Mallory]

Hmm... learn sumpin new every day! LOL

Thanks for clearing that up for me. Okay so everytime you gather your hens eggs you should double check and candle them? So long as you don't have a flock of ALL hens only. Where do you store the "clutch" (hope I'm using the term right) while you wait for enough eggs worth setting?

 

[Mallory]

I think I'm starting to "get it" btw. Thanks for being so patient with me!

 

[jcfuente51]

are you planning on getting hens and roos or just homework for school?