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[jwlpoultry]

Question If I put a rooster in with a hen how long will it be till she lays fertile eggs?

 

[Chaos18]

yall
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[Sally Sunshine]

I'm in my mechanic's waiting room with my 3 young children.

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Quote: so if that works french onion soup should work not? I love that stuff

Then put some peppermint or mint of some kind in the water. If you have echanacia tea you can vapor breathe it too. I believe it is marketed as Breathe Easy.

I have liquid echanacia but no mint stuffs I forgot I had that in the cab!

 

[Akrnaf2]

If a disappear soon its cuz life called

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Life, or wife ?    

Life =wife
If you didn't understand that by now you are in big trubel!

 

[campingshaws]

ALL DONE WOOOOOOOOOO.

Edit: still missing a bit of trim on the north side. But we're moving chickens over right now! e

 

[Sally Sunshine]

yall
Don't forget to tag me if you need me
So busy i can't keep up anymore

good think you have plenty of work!! that means more eggs!!

Question If I put a rooster in with a hen how long will it be till she lays fertile eggs?

-- Most birds do not have a phallus and, in these species, insemination occurs via the so-called ‘cloacal kiss.’ Depending on taxa, sperm are ejaculated into the cloaca or vagina and rely on their motility to reach the numerous sperm-storage tubules (SSTs) located at the junction of the vagina and the uterus. As a consequence of selection during their migration through the vagina, only 1–2% of inseminated sperm enter the SSTs, the rest are probably ejected the next time that the female defecates. The SSTs contain only morphologically normal sperm, suggesting either that only normal sperm successfully traverse the vagina or that only normal sperm are ‘accepted’ by the SSTs. An unknown but probably small proportion of sperm move directly to the infundibulum (the site of fertilization) without entering the SSTs, although these are likely to fertilize only a single ovum.
That sperm in the SSTs are invariably positioned with their heads directed towards the distal end of the tubule suggests that egress from the SSTs is passive. Sperm are lost from the SSTs more or less continuously at a constant per capita rate. They enter the uterus and are carried passively to the infundibulum. Sperm accumulate or move relatively slowly through the infundibulum so that there is usually a population available to fertilize each ovum as it is ovulated. On ovulation, the ovum is captured by the prehensile, funnel-shaped infundibulum and the sperm swarm over the surface of the ovum; their target is the germinal disc, which contains the female pronucleus. At this stage, the ovum is bounded by the inner perivitelline layers (IPVL). The clustering of sperm and holes made by sperm in the IPVL around the germinal disc suggest that sperm might use chemical signals to locate the germinal disc.
In contrast to most other taxa, where only a single sperm enters the ovum, polyspermy is typical in birds. Several sperm enter the germinal disc region, hydrolyzing the IPVL via the acrosome reaction of the sperm, whereby the release of enzymes from the sperm acrosome enables the sperm nucleus to enter the ovum. However, only a single spermatozoon fuses with the female pronucleus and the remaining sperm are shifted to the periphery of the germinal disc and play no further part in development. Fertilization includes the penetration of ovum by sperm as well as the fusion of the male and female pronuclei (syngamy). Because embryo development begins almost immediately, many cell divisions have occurred by the time the ovum has become incorporated into the egg and the egg is laid (in most species) 24 hr later.http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/avianreproduction.html

 

[jwlpoultry]

ALL DONE WOOOOOOOOOO.

Edit: still missing a bit of trim on the north side. But we're moving chickens over right now!

This looks awesome.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

In addition to the day vs. night thing stimulating production, I wanted to add a few things.
Chickens don't have to see the light. Blind chickens can also detect a change in day length.
Light penetrates the skull and thereby still is detected by the pineal gland.

Chickens detect light in a broader wavelength than humans.
Humans detect light in a range of about 400 to 660 nm. Chickens detect light from about 300-750 nm.
Humans peak response to light sensitivity is from 550-560 nm. Chicken have 3 peaks of light perception at 440, 550 and 610 nm.
Spectrum wavelength determines the color of the light.
Humans have retinal cones that can detect red, yellow and green.
Chickens have an additional double cone that is thought to allow tracking of movement.
Red light at about 650 nm penetrates the skull and eventually the hypothalamus at somewhere between 5-50 times more efficiently than blue, green or yellow/orange. This makes red light vital for stimulating sexual maturity and egg production. If you've seen the sky at the horizon at dawn and dusk, it can appear red because red penetrates the atmosphere greater than other colors of the spectrum.
So birds outside at dawn and dusk are stimulated more than those locked in the coop at those times.
Incandescent light is good at producing light in the red spectrum.
CFLs while efficient produce little red light.
LEDs produce the most efficient light per energy used and depending on phosphors used can be designed to output in virtually any spectrum desired.
You can look for LEDs in the 650nm range.

Citation:
Prescott, N. B., and C. M. Wathes. “Spectral sensitivity of the domestic fowl (Gallus g. domesticus).” British poultry Science 40.3 (1999): 332–339.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

OMGGGGG its GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jwlpoultry]

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Thanks Sally