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Fertile eggs or not ???

 
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Sue B



Joined: 18 Oct 2005
Posts: 361
Location: Lincolnshire
PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 11:11 am    Post subject: Fertile eggs or not ??? Reply with quote
Hallo all, here's an question.

If you buy a chicken (we'll assume reputable breeder etc) and the next morning it lays an egg I would assume that that egg is likely to be fertile. However, what I want to know is for how many days could that said chook be producing fertile eggs after she is separated from her hubby.

I'm off to buy some new girls next week and have a couple of broodies wondered how practical this idea was Smile

sue
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Chris Kurzfeld



Joined: 29 Oct 2007
Posts: 1170
Location: Carmarthenshire
PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 11:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
If she has been running with a cockerel, and he fancied her Laughing , then (so I have read) the sperm stays in the hen for up to 3 weeks.
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Itsybitsy



Joined: 11 Feb 2006
Posts: 1325
Location: Leicestershire
PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 1:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes three weeks maximum - but you don't want to be setting eggs older than two weeks, if you follow. You can buy fertile eggs from ebay and local livestock markets, I think Horncastle do poultry, also Melton Mowbray, depending on which bit of Lincolnshire you are in, or advertise on here in the Poultry Mart.

Itsybitsy
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Sue B



Joined: 18 Oct 2005
Posts: 361
Location: Lincolnshire
PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 2:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Very Happy Thats great news It just adds to the fun of buying a few new hens. Knocks Tesco's 'buy one get one free' into the shade!!

I've just got to decide what to go for. I'm going to the newark agricultral show next Saturday. I didn't realise the markets did poultry.
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mojo



Joined: 13 Apr 2005
Posts: 10145
Location: GLENAY north deux sevre FRANCE
PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 2:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
ask your supplier if the hens you buy have run with a coq or not then you know the odds better
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