How long does it take for an egg to develop if sat on?

[Danny188]

I have a broody buff Orpington it sits on eggs up to 13 hours before i pick them up in the evening. I put her on the roost without many problems exept her puffing up feathers. I am selling the eggs and i have a rooster so do they start devoloping after 13 hours? And changes in appearance or taste?

 

[SueT]

If you don't want her to hatch eggs, you need to break the broodiness. One way many BYC people succeed is to put the hen in a wire bottom cage so that air can circulate under her. Keep her in for at least 3 days, I had one that took 5 days.
Hopefully someone else will answer your question about egg development, but if it were me, I'd open one up and look at it.

 

[aart]

. I am selling the eggs and i have a rooster so do they start devoloping after 13 hours? And changes in appearance or taste?

Probably not in just 13 hours.

These are my go to sign of a broody:
Is she on nest most the day and all night?
When you pull her out of nest and put her on the ground, does she flatten right back out into a fluffy screeching pancake?
Does she walk around making a low cluckcluckcluckcluckcluck(ticking bomb) sound on her way back to the nest?
If so, then she is probably broody and you'll have to decide how to manage it.


But yes....
If you don't want her to hatch out chicks, best to break her broodiness promptly.

My experience goes about like this: After her setting for 3 days and nights in the nest (or as soon as I know they are broody), I put her in a wire dog crate (24"L x 18"W x 21"H) with smaller wire on the bottom but no bedding, set up on a couple of 4x4's right in the coop or run with feed and water.

I used to let them out a couple times a day, but now just once a day in the evening(you don't have to) and she would go out into the run, drop a huge turd, race around running, take a vigorous dust bath then head back to the nest... at which point I put her back in the crate. Each time her outings would lengthen a bit, eating, drinking and scratching more and on the 3rd afternoon she stayed out of the nest and went to roost that evening...event over, back to normal tho she didn't lay for another week or two. Or take her out of crate daily very near roosting time(30-60 mins) if she goes to roost great, if she goes to nest put her back in crate.

Chunk of 2x4 for a 'roost' was added to crate floor after pic was taken.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Breaking her will get her back into egg production sooner. That does sound like your goal, if I am wrong about your goals I apologize.

 

[Danny188]

Probably not in just 13 hours.

These are my go to sign of a broody:
Is she on nest most the day and all night?
When you pull her out of nest and put her on the ground, does she flatten right back out into a fluffy screeching pancake?
Does she walk around making a low cluckcluckcluckcluckcluck(ticking bomb) sound on her way back to the nest?
If so, then she is probably broody and you'll have to decide how to manage it.


But yes....
If you don't want her to hatch out chicks, best to break her broodiness promptly.

My experience goes about like this: After her setting for 3 days and nights in the nest (or as soon as I know they are broody), I put her in a wire dog crate (24"L x 18"W x 21"H) with smaller wire on the bottom but no bedding, set up on a couple of 4x4's right in the coop or run with feed and water.

I used to let them out a couple times a day, but now just once a day in the evening(you don't have to) and she would go out into the run, drop a huge turd, race around running, take a vigorous dust bath then head back to the nest... at which point I put her back in the crate. Each time her outings would lengthen a bit, eating, drinking and scratching more and on the 3rd afternoon she stayed out of the nest and went to roost that evening...event over, back to normal tho she didn't lay for another week or two. Or take her out of crate daily very near roosting time(30-60 mins) if she goes to roost great, if she goes to nest put her back in crate.

Chunk of 2x4 for a 'roost' was added to crate floor after pic was taken.
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She usaly flattens down but she was just woken up and disoriented, but she plucked out her breast feathers so i would say she is broody she is a hen from spring 2019 probably doesn't know much about sitting on eggs yet, lol. My plan is not to hatch eggs, i will look into buying a dog crate. Thanks for the advice!

 

[aart]

She usaly flattens down but she was just woken up and disoriented, but she plucked out her breast feathers so i would say she is broody she is a hen from spring 2019 probably doesn't know much about sitting on eggs yet, lol. My plan is not to hatch eggs, i will look into buying a dog crate. Thanks for the advice!

Get a foldable one, easy to store when not needed.
Look closely here and see how I added 1x2 cage mesh on the bottom,
good for cooling broodies and keeping cleaner feet as well as inspecting poops of sick birds.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...rates-a-good-tool-for-every-chickeneer.72619/

 

[Danny188]

Get a foldable one, easy to store when not needed.
Look closely here and see how I added 1x2 cage mesh on the bottom,
good for cooling broodies and keeping cleaner feet as well as inspecting poops of sick birds.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...rates-a-good-tool-for-every-chickeneer.72619/

ok thanks

 

[Danny188]

If you don't want her to hatch eggs, you need to break the broodiness. One way many BYC people succeed is to put the hen in a wire bottom cage so that air can circulate under her. Keep her in for at least 3 days, I had one that took 5 days.
Hopefully someone else will answer your question about egg development, but if it were me, I'd open one up and look at it.

Thanks