Pullet eggs... When do you start using eggs as hatching eggs?

[Hennypen]

What size should they be? Is there a chart for the various breeds? Some pullet eggs can be quite small so I want to wait until they're bigger but what is the right size?

 

[kera!]

depends on the breed and the bird...look it up the egg chart if you google it

 

[Hennypen]

I've tried to find it and so far haven't. Can you post the link?

 

[magicpigeon]

I reckon you can use them right from the start if you've got a rooster

One of my silkies just hatched her 1st clutch. Out of 15: 9 hatched ontheir own, 1 had to be helped out, 1 had a blood ring, 1 wasn't fertile and 3 were DIS. I'd take my advice with a grain of salt though.

After all, you've got at least 2 years more of eggs to hatch if your first lot flops

Good luck.

 

[Minniechickmama]

I have heard to wait until you get a 'normal' sized egg, but a friend of mine says some of his best chicks/birds have come from pullet eggs.

 

[spish]

i had a pullet go broody as soon as she started laying. 2 weeks in she'd saved all 14 eggs in a nest. she sat them out, through ice rain and wind in the middle of the field. out of 14 eggs, 12 hatched!

 

[sonew123]

I wait about a good month before using them for hatching-thats just me though. I also wait because I sell most of them and dont want to send smaller eggies-so when they are regular in thier laying pattern is when I use them I have hatched out pullet eggs though and yes, gotten great birds from them~

 

[Hennypen]

Won't the resulting birds be smaller than if the eggs were bigger?

I'd like to know at what age the birds start producing normal eggs.

 

[scbatz33]

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In my experience, they can and tend to be smaller, but they do catch up.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Personally I would not hatch from birds so young myself. Too soon to know if they are worth hatching from.