If I breed a hen and rooster who are not together in the same run. How long will it take for the eggs to become fertilized?
I would assume 48hrs and then the eggs COULd be fetilized. I don't really know, but I'm just guessing that if a chiocken lays an egg every day(or every other day) that after 48 hrs the eggs could possibly be fertyilized as that egg wouldn't have the shell on it yet....maybe I shouldn't have answered
Quote:thanks... Somewhere I read that it takes two weeks for the eggs to actually take and make chicks. I'm not sure though only tried it once with no luck
As soon as the rooster and the hen mate, the eggs will be fertile. If there was a rooster with the hen before, and you want her mated with a different rooster, you should wait at least 3 weeks (after rooster #1 is separated from her), to consider the second rooster as the sire.