I've got a brooding rooster.

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Oh is it?? I thought now that they were all hens everyone was saying!!

And thanks everyone for the welcome (haha I laughed at the lisp joke!!) I'm learning quite a lot being here only a few days

 

[kathyinmo]

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Oh is it?? I thought now that they were all hens everyone was saying!!

And thanks everyone for the welcome . I'm learning quite a lot being here only a few days

No, I do not think it is a rooster.

Welcome, welcome, welcome! We are really glad you are here! We all had to learn, believe me!

 

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Oh is it?? I thought now that they were all hens everyone was saying!!

And thanks everyone for the welcome. I'm learning quite a lot being here only a few days

No, I do not think it is a rooster.

Welcome, welcome, welcome! We are really glad you are here! We all had to learn, believe me!

Hahah ok, thanks, I was worried for a minute there!!

And thanks for the welcome

 

[guinea fowl galore]

I have a question. Are the eggs the broody is sitting on from your flock? since you don't have any roosters then the eggs the broody chicken is sitting on must not be fertile.

 

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They are all from our flock, yes. I don't know if they all belong to one hen or if both have eggs in there now, since all their eggs look more or less the same.

Anyways, I took the eggs away last night and they're still sharing a box, I don't think I'm going to get them to separate. It's alright now though since they're more or less awkwardly side by side instead of one sitting on top of the other.

 

[gryeyes]

Just to help you feel better about it, when my first batch o' eight chicks (which I bought from the "hen" bins at the feed store) were growing, and they began to develop combs, I thought, "Oh, crap! How unlucky to have that 90% accuracy thing be 100 percent wrong with MY chicks!"

*ahem* I didn't know hens had combs too.

By the time I got a RIR and a Delaware chick, I had studied enough of chicken breeds - and pictures! - here on BYC and feathersite.com to know that they would have MUCH larger combs than the other girls once they grew up.

Here's my lovely Rhoda, showing off her stylishly floppy comb:

 

[kathyinmo]

Hey, ya know what I did when I got my first chickens ..... I posted a picture of my lovely buff Polish girl, only to be told it was a rooster! I wondered why she wasn't laying!

See, it happens to alot of us!


I do have a question for ya though. Do you have any roosters there? You do need a rooster to have fertile eggs. If the eggs are not fertile, they do not develop into chicks.

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

i'd say to candle the eggs to be sure they weren't actually developing. do you know how long those girls were heating the eggs for? if it got to about 10 days they should show some signs of development-movement, or veining!

 

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Haha! Thanks for sharing your stories everyone

And no, we haven't got any eggs to candle, we've just been eating them! So just as well there aren't any roosters.