Rooster Stud Service?

[chics in the sun]

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I bet there would be a long line of roosters waiting to be "milked"......hehehe

It seems rooster juice loses it vitality quite quickly. Anyway here's a rather in-depth article about artificial insemination with poultry. The last page is really "interesting."

Artificial Insemination (AI) of Poultry

I think I'll just keep looking for someone local that has a rooster who wants to party in the city sometime.
And by local it would have to be in one of the surrounding counties, as they aren't allowed anywhere except one little parcel of land on my entire peninsula/county.

 

[dandelionheart]

I don't think that it is a weird idea/thought... If Hubby would let me and I knew someone with a healthy EE/Ameracauna rooster I would probably go for that. At least before the poor fella was sent to freezer camp. If we do hatch, it will probably just be sneaking fertile eggs under our BOs or something.

But it *would* be nice for them to be my own hen's children... which really shouldn't matter.

 

[dandelionheart]

That article was WAAAAAAY more than I wanted to know.

 

[Mak]

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Umm, yeah, what you said....

 

[oldtimeway]

BEWARE! BEWARE! BEWARE!

Take the advice from many who've said it above. Let me say it again, BEWARE!

I had a fine flock of Jersey Giants. A friend was trying to increase his number of Jersey Giant Blues and mine were black. He suggested I pull my roosters and he'd bring his roosters over and put on my hens.

OK, so I put his birds in isolation for a month before putting them with mine. DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB. What is putting the new bird in isolation suppose to do??? That's what everyone told me to do. They failed to tell me I should have thrown a few of my birds in with them to see what would happen. His birds showed no signs of illness so I put them in my house. Within days my birds got sick and started dying like flies.

Moral of the story. Isolating the "new bird" isn't going to do anything. They've already built immunity to whatever they have. You need to put a couple of your own birds with them so you see if what they have infects yours. Kind of throwing a couple of yours to the lion so's to speak before sacrificing your entire flock.

I ended up depopulating, fumigating, and leaving my chicken house empty for a year. I lost several hundred birds of a half dozen rare breeds including all of my bourbon red and beltsville white turkeys.

THis guys birds are still surviving after ten years and going on to infect birds all over the country. So let me say it again, BEWARE! You CAN NOT BE TOO CAREFUL!

An old timer living and learning.

 

[oldtimeway]

BEWARE! BEWARE! BEWARE!

Take the advice from many who've said it above. Let me say it again, BEWARE!

I had a fine flock of Jersey Giants. A friend was trying to increase his number of Jersey Giant Blues and mine were black. He suggested I pull my roosters and he'd bring his roosters over and put on my hens.

OK, so I put his birds in isolation for a month before putting them with mine. DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB. What is putting the new bird in isolation suppose to do??? That's what everyone told me to do. They failed to tell me I should have thrown a few of my birds in with them to see what would happen. His birds showed no signs of illness so I put them in my house. Within days my birds got sick and started dying like flies.

Moral of the story. Isolating the "new bird" isn't going to do anything. They've already built immunity to whatever they have. You need to put a couple of your own birds with them so you see if what they have infects yours. Kind of throwing a couple of yours to the lion so's to speak before sacrificing your entire flock.

I ended up depopulating, fumigating, and leaving my chicken house empty for a year. I lost several hundred birds of a half dozen rare breeds including all of my bourbon red and beltsville white turkeys.

THis guys birds are still surviving after ten years and going on to infect birds all over the country. So let me say it again, BEWARE! You CAN NOT BE TOO CAREFUL!

An old timer living and learning.

 

[sane cat lady]

here is an artificial insemination video

 

[bannturkmom316]

WHAT WOULD BE A CONSIDERED STANDARD STUD FEE FOR A ROO ?