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[Cadjien_De_Louisiane]

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Once rooster covers hen you can expect fertile eggs starting 3 days after with good fertility lasting possibly 10 days. Thereafter egg fertility begins to drop although at least some fertile through 28 days. When rotating cock over multiple hens penned separately, I like to have her covered every three days to keep egg fertility maximal.

Awesome I think I will stick to that method. Do you think I should go ahead and breed or give the hens a few days. I don't see why not.

 

[centrarchid]

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Once rooster covers hen you can expect fertile eggs starting 3 days after with good fertility lasting possibly 10 days. Thereafter egg fertility begins to drop although at least some fertile through 28 days. When rotating cock over multiple hens penned separately, I like to have her covered every three days to keep egg fertility maximal.

Awesome I think I will stick to that method. Do you think I should go ahead and breed or give the hens a few days. I don't see why not.

Let rooster cover them to increase your confidence he is sire. They should be settled in well enough if egg production restored. I would give solid week before allowing eggs to be kept for incubation by hen or you to increase confidence that any roosters she was penned with prior not sire.

 

[Cadjien_De_Louisiane]

Got ya. My brood pens are 4x4x4 should that be efficient to leave a cock with a hen in all day. Should I swap him every 24 hours or just leave him in like during day light hours

 

[centrarchid]

Only two hens. Leave him with each for 3 days at a time to minimize your work and their stress.

 

[Cadjien_De_Louisiane]

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Makes sense thanks again for the great advice

 

[RedBugPoultry]

Mind if I post some pics and ask some questions? My mother and father raised Old English Game Bantams for over 20 years. All blacks. My father passed away about 9 years ago and my mother still has his birds but really just lets them run loose at the house. How they have survived I do not know but they have. Several months ago I ask my mother if she would try to send me some eggs to hatch(she lives in Washington State, me in South Carolina). She sent me 3 dozen eggs. One dozen candled clear after 10 day. I hatched 19! I still have 18 of these amazing little birds and I am wondering if there is anything I can do with them?

If I introduce a new rooster maybe? The only problems I am seeing are crooked toes. One chick had two toes fused together. Some also have light feathering down their legs and feet. I would like to actually do something with these little birds besides just turn them loose around the house--are they too inbred?

 

[Chief]

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Hello. I was wondering where you got that sweater? I ask because he looks exactly like some I raised last year. They were a yellow leg Kelso rooster bred over a Marion rose hatch hen. Your bird is a carbon copy. Especially the shape of his head. Everything I've raised from that cross has that same head shape.

 

[Chief]

Oops

 

[josh44]

One Of My Grey Asils

 

[KenK]

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What do you want to do with them? I would bet that the hens will lay eggs and that the ones that don't will taste like chicken.