Wanting to breed

[sebbs007]

Ok. I curently have all my girls out with dfferent roosters
breeds all day (so its mass rape as you can imagine). I now wish to breed my pure breed Araucana roosters with my Araucana girls, so I will be locking them up together. Can anyone tell me how long I need the discard the eggs for until I can guarentee pure araucana fertilised eggs??

 

[bird boy]

If you want to make sure you should eat any of the eggs until after about 10 days. Then you should be in good shape for pure bred eggs.

 

[jbirds2012]

hi from california and

good question. i was wondering also because im going to have to do the same thing when i want purebreed babies

 

[Pyxis]

Hello and ! The typical purifying period for a hen is 3 weeks, because it is possible for eggs to be fertile from a rooster up to three weeks after the removal of the roo, although you're usually pretty safe after two weeks. The additional week just ensures that the eggs will definitely be purebred. After that, though, you're good to go!

 

[sumi]

Hello and welcome to BYC

I'd wait minimum 3 weeks.

 

[Red Barn Farms]

Hello seebs, Ya'll have around a 21 day wait period.

 

[Majd]

hello... Me too i want pure red stars... so i bought a pure breed red star roo and i want to breed him with my hen... she's a red star exactly the same as her mother(red star) but the father is a mix breeds roo so will she lay pure breed eggs or not all of them will be so? please help!!

 

[Pyxis]

hello... Me too i want pure red stars... so i bought a pure breed red star roo and i want to breed him with my hen... she's a red star exactly the same as her mother(red star) but the father is a mix breeds roo so will she lay pure breed eggs or not all of them will be so? please help!!

Red stars are not a real breed. They're a mix created at the hatchery to be sex linked so that the gender of the chick can be determined by its color when it hatches. Breeding two of these birds together does not produce more of these birds, just mutts. In other words, the birds don't breed true like a true breed does. You'll never know what you're going to get chick wise. If you want to make red sex links of your very own, you breed a gold type male to a silver type female. There are several breeds that work for this. For instance, you can cross a Rhode Island Red male with a light sussex female, and you'll make sex linked chicks, wherein all males hatch silver colored and all females hatch gold colored. Oh, and if you breed any mixed breed bird with any purebred bird, no chicks will be purebred. Hope this helps!

 

[redsoxs]

Greetings from Kansas and

! Glad you joined us. Sorry that I can't help you with your question.

 

[liz9910]

from California, sounds like you got some good advise.