Using a stud...kind of

[k625]

I gave my noisy but georgeous partrige silkie roo away to a friend, but now have decided to beed my frizzled polish to him. He has only been gone 2 weeks, and they were breeding steadily before he left. I was wondering if I take her to him over the weekend, how long will it take for them to start up again, and how long will it take for the eggs to become fertile? I am going to use a silkie hen who is about to start sitting within the next week or two to hatch out her eggs. Let me know your thoughts and ideas/opinions on this please. Thanks so much!

Also anyone ever breed a silkie to a frizzled polish? What did you get?

 

[silkiechicken]

Her current eggs may still be fertile. Usually they say up to three weeks to remove old roo and have new roo chicks so I assume he may still be stored in there. If you do put them back together, I'd give a full week and should be good to go.

 

[k625]

so if i take her tonight, and pick her up on sunday, that should be enough time to have the eggs firtile?

 

[MissPrissy]

You have to consider also that moving her may put her off laying for a week or more. Moving often causes stress and that can cause her to stop laying. Could you bring the roo back to her for a few days?

 

[k625]

Well..thats too late...lol I took her last night before reading your post! Sorry...He jumped on her as soon as I sat her down. I think he was excited to see her!

IF she puts of laying at least she will be fertile right? So I could always bring her home and collect the eggs and take those back?