Question about pullet's and when you can incubate there eggs?

[Barnyard]

I have Serama's that are just starting to lay, 2 weeks now. I know I have been told before, but I need refreshing

I think it is 2 months, but I could be wrong:
How long do they need lay before I can incubate and/or sale there eggs? Thanks for any info....

 

[GrannySue]

You can sell or eat the eggs right out of the nest as long as they haven't been on medicated feed. (I've never used medicated feed so I don't know much about it.)

As for incubation, have you seen the rooster doing his job?

 

[Barnyard]

Oh yeah.... he has surely been doing his job. I would like to test fertility before I sale the eggs for hatching. That is why I was asking. I alway's put my chicks on medicated feed, and they are alway's brooded inside on shavings before they ever touch the ground.

 

[Barnyard]

Hello out there.....did you forget me

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[gritsar]

I waited until my hens were laying full sized eggs before we tried to incubate any of them. It's my understanding that pullet eggs can hatch, but the resulting chicks will be small and weak.

 

[Big dreams]

I would agree with the above post. Not enough egg to grow much!!!

 

[Ducklove334]

I have a almost-5 month old crested mallard hen who'd only layed like 7 eggs before I thought she'd stopped for a year, well she'd been laying in a nest box with two other hens who are brooding, so now she'll have 3 babies, three of the eggs are devloping, so i'd say it's pretty much as soon as they start laying if they've been breeding for ducks and chickens

 

[Barnyard]

Quote:
What does a full size Serama egg look like?

 

[3KillerBs]

This may or may not be relevant to the specific situation, but as a potential buyer of hatching eggs one day I'd like to know that the mother of my new chickens was a robust, healthy animal who had thrived through summer heat and winter cold and who had a record of laying abundantly.

Unless I was quite desperate for chickens I wouldn't want to buy the eggs of an untried pullet and would pay more knowing that the hen was proven as a robust and productive chicken.

 

[Momo]

I agree with the above post. However, you can hatch pullet eggs without a problem; I've hatched lots of 'em and they had good fertility and hatchability. The chicks were smaller due to the smaller eggs but they caught up with the others as they grew. They were perfectly healthy and robust little tykes, just smaller.