Rooster with Hen for Fertile eggs

[Serama Mama 4]

Serama roosters crows are quieter, but you would of course have smaller mixed-breed chicks.

 

[Barred Rocks forever]

why cant you just buy fertile eggs and give them to the broody hen ? ive done that before and most hens take the eggs

 

[blaundee]

I have read that a hen can lay fertile eggs for up to 3 weeks after breeding with a rooster. However, I had a California White hen who laid fertile eggs for just over TWO MONTHS!!! I didn't have a rooster until Mid-November, and I got my hen from my mom's house (where she was with a rooster) in August- I saved eggs from her for 2 weeks, then set them in the incubator in November, BEFORE I got the new rooster- Those eggs made it to day 14 (yes, 14) before my temps dropped and killed them.

That hen, Christine, also laid 13 to 14 eggs before missing a day of laying, laid for 2 years, and had a great personality. A coyote got her at the end of November- I really liked her alot.

 

[pdsavage]

Or you could just get eggs off someone local,buy eggs off here or ebay.That way if your hen/hens go broody you can get some eggs for her without having to deal with the rooster hassel.....