How Do I Breed Chickens?

I personally wait a month, but I’ve heard it be said at the least to wait 2 weeks. If you have time and patience to wait a month I’d wait it to ensure it’s fertilized by the right rooster.

A mean gene from a rooster or a hen? I have a mean rooster but I’m thinking it’s more due to not handling him while he was a chick and not so much because he’s inherently mean 😕
it's the Roo's, my very first roo had been doing great, then all of a sudden he started trying to spur me and he was well past his hormone stage. Then I had his son who started getting stupid, both of those are residing in my freezer, I'm taking the last batch of that group out of my main flock, waiting a while isn't a big deal really, I've got a friend who's needing some chicks hatched, if it's only two weeks wait time, then it would be ok to hatch out of that coop. I think it's been a month already and the roo's that are going to the bachelor pad are not quite the "sowing the wild oats" age.
 
Ok. I have a silkie but she’s never layered an egg or gone broody. I’ll have to get a incubator. What kinds do you recommend?
This is what I have and I know there are folks out there with others that might chime in, I've had better luck with this one than I did my 24 count, but then it's a cheap one as well, I'll find the link for it, but I have a thing that shows temp and humidity that I add to it, so far I've had decent hatches, due to the size of my eggs, all I can get in there are 6 eggs, this hatch I got 4 little chickies, had a early quitter and late quitter https://www.ebay.com/itm/9-12Egg-In...638224&hash=item216b3d2eef:g:~DkAAOSwD9JeR1C3
 
My little monsters, 3 naked necks and one full feather, these are all out of my NN coop, there is Breese in the family tree which is where I guess the full feather is from, the little yellow one has been named Houdini.. he escaped from the incubator while I was trying to get his hatch mate over into the brooder. I came back in the bathroom to find him walking the counter. Upper right is "Walker" he's the full feather, he got his name because he kept walking up and down the counter not letting me get a good picture, this is them in the brooder tote. Houdini's favorite past time is sleeping in the food dish.
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I personally wait a month, but I’ve heard it be said at the least to wait 2 weeks. If you have time and patience to wait a month I’d wait it to ensure it’s fertilized by the right rooster.

A mean gene from a rooster or a hen? I have a mean rooster but I’m thinking it’s more due to not handling him while he was a chick and not so much because he’s inherently mean 😕
I have “Wild” Roos that are still nice. I also HAD a very handled roo that was a real a$$. He was good to me, but he would take on anyone else... some are just mean.
This is what I have and I know there are folks out there with others that might chime in, I've had better luck with this one than I did my 24 count, but then it's a cheap one as well, I'll find the link for it, but I have a thing that shows temp and humidity that I add to it, so far I've had decent hatches, due to the size of my eggs, all I can get in there are 6 eggs, this hatch I got 4 little chickies, had a early quitter and late quitter https://www.ebay.com/itm/9-12Egg-In...638224&hash=item216b3d2eef:g:~DkAAOSwD9JeR1C3
I have one of those too. It’s surprisingly good for as cheap as it is, but I can’t get more than nine in there. Had a big one go bad and I stuck them in there in a pinch and just turned them manually, and it worked like a charm
 

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