Peas and chickens and ducks, oh my!

[KsKingBee]

She does not need a mature cock to lay but only to fertilize the egg. Early hatch yearling hens can lay although they are not always fertile especially with a yearling cock. I have hatched out a few yearling eggs but those hens were with older cocks. Yearling cocks can be fertile but the odds are generally against it. Think of a fumbling teenager...... it takes practice.

 

[tameraf]

She does not need a mature cock to lay but only to fertilize the egg. Early hatch yearling hens can lay although they are not always fertile especially with a yearling cock. I have hatched out a few yearling eggs but those hens were with older cocks. Yearling cocks can be fertile but the odds are generally against it. Think of a fumbling teenager...... it takes practice.

We get home tomorrow and I’ll steal them and candle them. I doubt they are fertile, however, there are other peas in my neighborhood, so it’s possible.

 

[tameraf]

So I candles the eggs, it looks like I have three viable.

Since she was out on the property, not in a safe place , I moved her and the eggs to somewhere ?I could secure. She was NOT HAPPY. She refused to sit. So after about thirty minuets, I incubated them. But after a day, I slipped them under a broody hen.

Wish me luck!