How fast can a rooster fertilize eggs?

[_-Captain BRM-_]

I have a broody hen and am getting a EE rooster on Friday. How fast can he make my girls eggs fertile? He is over 6 months old and has already been mating the hens in his flock. I would love to get my broody some hatching eggs from him and her sisters!

 

[Poultrybonkers]

A week after mating eggs become fertile

 

[aart]

I have a broody hen and am getting a EE rooster on Friday. How fast can he make my girls eggs fertile? He is over 6 months old and has already been mating the hens in his flock. I would love to get my broody some hatching eggs from him and her sisters!

Depends on how soon the girls let him mate.
Just like with humans, it only takes once

 

[_-Captain BRM-_]

Depends on how soon the girls let him mate.
Just like with humans, it only takes once

Haha... Of course. I only have two that are laying, my third went broody, and the rest are a mob of chicks and ducks. Could I stick them out in the tractor together and hope something happens? Is there anything I can do to help the hens except him?

 

[aart]

Could I stick them out in the tractor together and hope something happens?

The new male and the 2 active layers?
Maybe.
Integrating a new male is usually the easiest integration,
but you never know how any of them will react.

Have you considered biological/medical quarantine:
BYC Medical Quarantine Article


Integration Basics:
It's all about territory and resources(space/food/water).
Existing birds will almost always attack new ones to defend their resources.
Understanding chicken behaviors is essential to integrating new birds into your flock.

Confine new birds within sight but physically segregated from older/existing birds for several weeks, so they can see and get used to each other but not physically interact.

In adjacent runs, spread scratch grains along the dividing mesh, best if mesh is just big enough for birds to stick their head thru, so they get used to eating together.

The more space, the better. Birds will peck to establish dominance, the pecked bird needs space to get away. As long as there's no copious blood drawn and/or new bird is not trapped/pinned down and beaten unmercilessly, let them work it out. Every time you interfere or remove new birds, they'll have to start the pecking order thing all over again.

Multiple feed/water stations. Dominance issues are most often carried out over sustenance, more stations lessens the frequency of that issue.

Places for the new birds to hide 'out of line of sight'(but not a dead end trap) and/or up and away from any bully birds. Roosts, pallets or boards leaned up against walls or up on concrete blocks, old chairs tables, branches, logs, stumps out in the run can really help. Lots of diversion and places to 'hide' instead of bare wide open run.

Good ideas for hiding places:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/a-cluttered-run.1323792/

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Haha... Of course. I only have two that are laying, my third went broody, and the rest are a mob of chicks and ducks. Could I stick them out in the tractor together and hope something happens? Is there anything I can do to help the hens except him?

Acceptance isn’t too much of an issue with roosters, it’s almost like they’re a different species, roosters have no place in the chickens pecking order. The rooster will offer food to attract them but hens hens not accepting roosters won’t be the same as hens not accepting hens.

I had a rooster who was a total bully and traumatized a few of my hens but now the others won’t let my new, tiny silkie near them but they settled that when he was a baby so not it’s just Kia being scared of my hens, but I have had a fertile brown egg which means he did fertilize one of the hens eggs that he generally freezes up in front of, so it all depends, most of the time hens won’t reject him from the flock… if you have a special case hen such as my hen Wolf(Wolfs Bane) she’ll just lean forward or sideways and dump him off