Roosters and breeding - your questions answered
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ค. 2024
- Do hens need a rooster to lay eggs?
How does the sperm get through the egg shell?
How old does a rooster have to be before he's fertile?
How do chickens mate?
How soon are the eggs fertile?
How many roosters do I need?
Is my rooster too old?
How can I ensure fertility?
How long will the eggs be fertile after the rooster leaves?
This video answers your questions about the role of roosters in producing the next generation of baby chicks.
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This was a wonderful video, at first I thought it was going to be all reading but was pleasantly surprised with your clear and delightful voice.
Oh, thank you so much ☺
My rooster doesn't do much courting, he just jumps on the nearest hen - usually when they've just been given their daily corn ration and are running around trying to hover up as much as possible. He does have one favourite hen though and he gives her any treats first. He's courteous at least in that part!
Just like people I guess, they each have their individual personality 🙂
I hope you have a rooster with this quality in your life
Perfect explanation! So they dont have a peepee. Thats so interesting.
I wish my roosters were more gentle. It makes me sad to see my pretty birds getting roughed up losing feathers.
My beautiful lady Starfire is worse for wear than id like..but...she definitely was rhe prettiest!
They can be very hard on the hens, especially if the rooster is heavy and hangs on with his beak and claws. That's why it's good to have several hens per rooster, but as you say there is often one favourite hen who gets all the "attention"!
I always learn something new from this channel. Thanks!
Thank you 🙂
Your videos are always so helpful. Thanks
Great, I'm glad to hear it 🙂
Lovely thank you. This was used in homeschool today. We are new Rooster owners 💌
Congratulations. Best wishes for lots of good times for you and your flock 🙂
That was very educational I learned a lot thank you the illustration was great everything was wonderful
Thank you. I appreciate hearing from you and I'm glad you enjoyed the video 🙂
fascinating stuff. thank you
Thank your for the informative video.
thank you, I learned a lot!
Like always you have such informative and interesting videos..... I appreciate you and your videos.
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoy them 🙂
thank you so very much for answering these questions. some of them I hadn't even thought of yet.
TH-cam was a bit doubtful about whether the content should be age restricted but I thought it was interesting. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂
@@chickensinmygarden "Birds and the Bees" stuff, I'm sure. But, none-the-less, invaluable knowledge. Even for those of us way past the age for knowing about the birds and the bees.
Thank you for another great video!!! I love learning new stuff. ❤️🐓❤️
Thank you 🙂🐥
Great video and just the info I was looking for. Thank you!
Thank you for the compliment. I'm glad it was helpful 🙂
Great info, easy to follow
Thank you
Great info, and you have answered my question . Thank you so much!
Yay! Have a great day 🙂
Amazing info!
Chickens never cease to amaze me. They are so different to us and other mammals 🙂
Thank you so much ! I always wondered about this!
I'm pleased to have been able to answer some questions for you 🙂
Excellent video ma’am !!! Thank you !!!
Thank you
Thanks for your video! I've learned a lot!
Thanks for watching 🙂
Cute video with alot of info 🐓
Thank you 🙂
This video gave me the answer I was looking for! Thank you!
Glad to hear it 🙂
Thank you for this informative video.👍
Thanks for commenting 🙂
Lovely video..thank you.
Thank you 🙂
Great video ❤
Thanks 🙂
Thanks so much for very informative video about chickens ❤️
Thanks so much for watching and commenting
Thanks.... your v7deo was informative but also enjoyable as well...
Thank you 🙂
extremly informative
Thank you. I'm glad you found it so.
Big 👍! Hi my friend, another great informational video! Take care and God bless! Papa and Junior! 😎🐓👍🙏
Thank you. Have a wonderful day 🙂
Great video. I always wondered how it happened 😂
You are excellent....
Thank you, you are very kind 🙂
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This was really cool to learn, because I've heard both of those sounds in my city. A lot of people have chickens, even though I live in the city so it's cool to know why there was a difference in sound.
There's a bit of a difference between individuals too (like people) and especially between breeds 🙂
Thank you.
Thanks for watching 🙂
Thank you this is Absolutely the BEST EDUCATIONAL video I have found!! Your time and knowledge is very appreciated!!
Thank you. The subject matter was a bit dodgy for TH-cam - I had to say Yes it included mention of s*x 😉
Best explanation ever!
Thank you 🙂
Fantastic
Thanks 🙂
I was just thinking yesterday that rosters are nature's wake up alarm.
Yes! Isn't that handy! 🙂
Two additional questions regarding chicken's reproduction 😁:
- does the hen keep laying eggs after her chicks have just hatched?
- if not, how long does it take for her to start laying eggs again after raising chicks?
Thank you again for this amazing channel! 🙏😊
Usually the hen stops laying the day (or day after) she settles down to brooding the eggs. This makes sense because all the eggs need to start incubating on the same day so they will all hatch on the same day - any eggs added later would not be ready to hatch when the others hatch and would probably be abandoned while the mother hen looked after the chicks.
Usually a hen will start laying again about six weeks after the chicks hatch but that is very variable depending on the hen and the time of year.
@@chickensinmygarden Thank you very much 🙏😊
Ty!! New subscriber here!
Thank you. I hope you enjoy some of my other videos 🙂
I’m here out of morbid curiosity. I’m on a ranch (it’s not mine, just a visitor ) where I think there are maybe too many roosters vs hens and there is this poor hen that the roosters really pick on. They will viciously chase her down, peck at her and try to mount as a gang. She’s got a bald spot and hides away from the flock often, just looks real beaten up. I’ve tried to tell the owner but they do nothing to help her 😢 💔I give her some corn and shoo the rooster’s so she can some peace, for a little bit but I’m leaving soon…
I hope to keep chickens someday when I have the space, I’ll pay closer attention to their relationships so they’re all happy ❤ Thanks for the education
Over-mating can cause injuries including torn skin and flesh as well as bare spots on her back and neck.
So lesson for us chicken keepers - not too many roosters!
this is so cool
Roosters are fascinating aren't they 🙂
Thank you, young lady! I really enjoy your videos and good information.
Now, I understand better why my broodies are squirreling away eggs. We have such terribly hot summers and mild fall and spring weather. That’s why I have girls being broody as early as the first week in February!
Guess I’d better pick a few eggs to mark now. Maybe they’ll be busy with their chicks and wait until fall before commencing to brood again.
Thank you once again!
Regards...
Thank you, and for calling me a 'young lady too - I'm 66 😄
@@chickensinmygarden I’m just a baby then ! I’ll only be 65 in a couple of weeks!
A wonderful age!
But then I think every age is wonderful 🙂
@@chickensinmygarden As my Sweet Hubby says, “I woke up today and I’m still breathing!”
Tanks. I have many boblem very tanks . I have two rooster and eingt8. Hen
I hope this video helped 🙂
Mashaallah
Thank you very much ....!
You explain it clearly, I'm satisfied..
Btw, can you make a content about hatchery.
I just started to hatch several eggs but somehow it died before it out from the shell.
I try to crack a bit but doesn't help. They kinda premature and die less than hour.
I'm frustrated and sad. But still continue the project.
Hatching eggs is one of my favourite things to do 🙂
I have made a video about my incubator
th-cam.com/video/h8nPArazVKM/w-d-xo.html
I think it covers quite a few of the basic principles that apply no matter what equipment you are using.
I may be wrong and hope I get corrected, but I NEVER assist a chick with its shell. While they are working their way out of their shell, they are actually drawing up the yolk into their bodies which should sustain them about 3 days. This give a bit of leeway for the other eggs to hatch while the early hatch is well sustained. I would be afraid of manipulating their shell as the yolk uptake could still be in progress and the sac and chick may be harmed.
The hatch rate is not always good under my hens, but I prefer them to be able to be good moms, too. I spent about $150 US dollars for an incubator which worked well one time and then would not function after a couple of months of storage. The naturally hatched chicks seem to be much calmer and protective of one another.
I may not know what I talking about, so please, all you other folks let me know!
I pretty much agree about not interfering when chicks are hatching - it's a bad idea for lots of reasons. That said, I have done so on a couple of occasions with good results when it seemed certain that the chick would die otherwise. And maybe that in itself is a bad outcome - perhaps that chick who would have died grew up to pass on it's lack of hatching ability because I made it survive.
As for hens vs incubators - there is something wonderful about a good mother hen and her chicks. Personally I have had better success with incubators and the chicks grow up just fine although there are some well documented differences between chicks raised with a hen compared to without.
Wow, thank you for the insight.
I need more like it, the basic of hatchery.
Is there a way to tell of an egg has been fertilized? I would hate to eat an egg that could potentially be a baby chick! And on the other hand, I would hate to let an egg go waste if there is nothing in it.
- Loved your video! Looking forward to watching more!
There certainly is. I have a video about it
th-cam.com/video/OHUPcZyPxXQ/w-d-xo.html
@@chickensinmygarden Haha, yes! I found it right after I submitted this question. Thank you so much!
Great video. What is the variety of the first hen?The crested blue one with the chicks?
She's an Araucana as they are known in New Zealand, not quite the same as would meet the American Standard for Araucana but what we have here. She lays blue eggs.
@@chickensinmygarden thank you she is beautiful❤🐤🐔
Great information 👍🏻Can you mate a rooster to hens that were hatched from same batch ?
Yes indeed. It's quite common if you want to concentrate certain traits. Just beware it concentrates all traits including any unwanted ones.
Tks for sharig, i have an Icelantic Rooster & 1 Icelantic hen, both about same age about 6 months old, plus 3 leg horns that are about 3yrs old, So will the leg horn chickens be a cross breed because the rooster is icelantic? & the icelantic eggs will be full icelantic chicks?
Yes. Absolutely correct 🙂
@@chickensinmygarden Tk u
Sorry this is not a rooster question. I just got baby chicks from a farm store today. My Silkie just happened to go broody 2 days ago. I sneaked 5 of the chicks under her whale she was on her nest of two eggs that weren’t going to hatch (I read about doing this). Incredibly she acted like they were her own babies. Chirping at them and keeping them under her. And incredibly the baby chicks quieted right down and snuggled right under her. They were lil wild thing running around in the tote I had them in. Amazing nature? So I have read about how good silkies are at mothering chicks but I am still nervous. So she will not smother them accidentally (she is a small light silkie)?? She will keep them warm enough? Or do I need to put a heater in with them? She actually lives inside my home. I also wrapped half her cage in fleece (inside my home). I am in the states, Michigan, so it is winter here. I keep my home at around 65 degrees F. I did pull all 5 out from under her and put them at their food and water before putting them to bed (they do eat and drink). I checked and made sure they all went back to her and, incredibly, they all did. And their food and water is right next to her. I gave her food too and she drank out of their water. This is the first for me and I am nervous. Just want to make sure I am taking goos enough care of her and the chicks. I like your channel and respect you knowledge and experience. Thank you for any advice ❤️ 🐥
Hi 🙂 congratulations to you and mama hen. You are all doing beautifully! Relax - she knows what she is doing. Your only job is to make sure that suitable food and water is available for mum and chicks and especially that the water is in a dish they can't possibly drown in. They will walk in it so you will have to change it often. If the house temperature is ok for you then mum and chicks will be fine.
So exciting! 🙂
Chickens in my garden That’s good advice thank you so much. We all made it through the night LOL. The chicks came out to eat and they were drinking. Mama is not eating or drinking much at all so I took her out of their pen today and let her walk in the kitchen and tried to give her food and water. I saw you do that on the video about grandma Ganzo. But she didn’t want anything to do with or the food or water she just tried to get back to her chicks. I made her scrambled eggs and I am trying to feed her while she is still sitting in the nest, she’s taking little bites. The chicks are on chick feed. But when mama dropped a piece of egg the chicks grabbed it like the little dinosaurs that they are and ran around with it. it was so adorable. It really is something to see a mama hen and those babies. What a wonderful experience it’s very joyful. Thank you so much for your advice and your support 😁.
Mama will not do much except look after those chicks for a few days. Her body has slowed down with the brooding and she will seem tired but happy. Eventually she will start to stir around about the time the chicks can walk and get around better. Just enjoy the intimacy of these few special days before the fun starts 🙂
Chickens in my garden ok, thank you for guiding me. I will just let mama be and make sure she has food and water at her side as you advised. I was concerned because she wasn’t getting up at all but as you advised, that is normal, so ok that eases my worry for her. I am trying to read up on mama and her chicks, it just happened so fast LOL I wasn’t expecting to get chicks and I really wasn’t expecting to put them under my silky and have a mama and chicks, that’s a whole new ballgame to study up on so thank you again for the information and the support. I very much appreciate you. 😁. I love this experience thus far. Pretty awesome!
Детерминизм это Свобода 🤙
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Waaaaoh, the last Information was awesome...I thought the Roosters needs to mate everyday to fertilize the next Egg "Sperm storage inside the female chicken". Allah is perfect in creation
Pretty amazing, isn't it! The more I learn about chickens, the more I realise how amazing they are 🙂
Hi there just a question,
Is it okay to have one rooster for a flock of four hens but our flock has different breeds such as the Sussex and Hampshire
Yes it is perfectly ok, although more than four hens would probably be better. Any chicks that hatch will of course be cross-breeds but that's fine - they will still be good chickens.
@@chickensinmygarden okay thanks ☺
i have bovance chicken. i need to hatch pure bovance. which rooster should be use in order to get bovance chicken. thanks
The Bovans is a commercial hybrid, owned by ISA. You can usually only get the females unless you become a registered breeder for ISA. Even if you happen to find a male Bovans and bred him with a Bovans hen, you would still not get offspring exactly like the Bovans, because Bovans is not a breed it's a hybrid.
Here is a link to the Bovans website. It might help
www.bovans.com/en/product/bovans-brown/
Thank u for the information... I have a question can we recognize the eggs by just seeing at them that are they fertile or not
As we wasted 18 and then again 12 eggs we thought they will hatch but it doesn't happen... So are we able to know by just looking at them that whether they are fertilizated or not
There are only two ways to tell if an egg is fertilised -
either incubate it (in an incubator or under a broody hen) and if it grows into a chick it was fertile,
or crack it open and look at the white spot on the yolk. Of course once you crack it open you can't grow it into a chick. But if they have been incubated and didn't hatch then it's a good idea to open them and see if they were infertile or else started to develop then died in the shell.
@@chickensinmygarden so u mean we can't check if they are fertile or not Without cracking them
Unfortunately not.
How do you feed the rooster something different than the hens when they are all together?
It is tricky.
Some people keep the roosters separate from the hens until breeding time, so that gives them a good solid start nutrtion-wise. (This is what I have usually done. )
You can feed high protein feed without added calcium to everyone and make the calcium available separately - the hens will take what they need and the roosters won't bother. (This is how I manage a mix of layers and chicks or pullets.)
It's also possible to have higher feeders for the roosters that the hens can't reach, but this doesn't completely stop them eating the hens' food.
10:20 Is 6 weeks same for *Aseel* breed (India) chickens ?
It's "up to 6 weeks", it might be shorter but highly unlikely to be longer.
Hey. see my rooster has been stolen and I'm thinking of my neighbor he still has I was wondering whether I can use it to mate some of my hens but how many times a week? Because from what I learned from you sperm can last up to 6 weeks, which means maybe taking my hens to neighbor's rooster two times a week might be sufficient. Thank you so much.
Regards
Yes that could work, if the hens and the rooster are interested (and your neighbour is willing 😀 ) even once a week would be enough.
The hens might get unsettled by the move and go off the lay (i.e . stop laying eggs) which would make the whole thing pointless. So I would suggest borrowing the rooster and bringing him to your hens once a week - roosters seem to be quite happy to go visiting.
Sorry to hear that your rooster was stolen. Best wishes for some little chicks to replace him.
@@chickensinmygarden thank you so much much respect . I can't stop learning from you.
Good morning
Hello. Actually it's afternoon here right now. Is it morning at your place?
In USA
I give 20% protein
Higher if I have more roosters and use them as meat.
I bet that makes them grow quickly 🙂 and since your purpose for the roosters is for meat the high protein and fast growth should work well 🙂
Hello! I got a Silver Laced Wyandotte, she is 5 weeks, and I’m scared, because her comb and wattles are red. But her feathers point all to hens, they are black with white lines in them, no white coverts on her wings yet and she is fast feathered, so everything besides her comb and wattles point to hen, is she a rooster or is she just red wattles/combed (her comb and wattles are small, just red)
Edit: her comb is closer to orange, but her wattles are reddish
At 5 weeks old, red comb and wattles sounds rather like a boy. Maybe you could watch my video about how to tell girl chicks from boys for more details
th-cam.com/video/2cvd1WpndfE/w-d-xo.html
Fingers crossed
And don't give up until you are absolutely sure - even experienced chicken keepers get surprises
Thanks! But why is her feathers soo hen? Also, we watched that vid, my mom loved it
I would not be able to tell the difference between hen feathers and cockerel feathers at 5 weeks old. I don't think the males start to get masculine looking feathers until their male hormones kick in.
@@chickensinmygarden ok, thanks! I’ll cross my fingers she is a hen, tysm for your time!!
What do you do if you get a lot of roosters from the chickens eggs? Do people sell them or? I feel like they would fights or the rooster would kill them.
There are several options
- sell them as breeding stock (hard to do unless they are a sought-after breed),
- keep just one for your own breeding to replace your old rooster
- raise them for a few months then eat them
- sell them or give them away to other people who will eat them.
It is quite possible to keep a group of roosters together in a flock WITHOUT hens but they won't be happy in sight of the flock that has hens. Personally I have never tried.
You have probably covered this somewhere but I have a question. Is inbreeding a concern with chickens?
It's generally not. In fact it's common to breed offspring back to their father and to breed closely related chickens for many generations. This is called Line breeding.
Of course all breeding selections should be made with due consideration for the desired outcome and possible disadvantages. Almost all heritage breeds of chickens are only able to be maintained via some inbreeding.
The opposite extreme of inbreeding is hybridization. A hybrid (or First generation cross) has several advantages over a purebeed. It is perhaps telling that all the commercial laying hens are hybrids - the parent lines are maintained as pure lines and then the cross produces the chickens that are raised to lay the eggs. If you breed from one of these high-production layers, the offspring will never be as good as their mother.
@@chickensinmygarden That's great information. Thank you much
Please l have a few questions to ask and l will be glad if l get feedback from you, Does it really matter on the kind of rooster to be introduced into the flock, or do l need to get a specific rooster for a specific hen
It depends on what you want to achieve. If you want purebred chicks then your rooster needs to be the same breed as your hens. But if you don't need purebred chicks or your hens are not purebred anyway, then any breed of rooster will do.
Does that help, or were you thinking of something else?
@@chickensinmygarden Okay, if l have a particular breed of hen can l use the same breed for the rooster and can l achieve a better result , thank you so much for your response
Yes if you use a rooster that is the same breed as your hens, the result will be chicks of that breed.
Whether it is 'better' for your chicks to be purebred is a matter of your desires and your opinion.
@@chickensinmygarden Thank you so much and l do appreciate your responses , l will love to have your email for further questions in future , if you don’t mind but if not that’s fine also
I'm always happy to answer if I can
Do you have to wait for a certain time of year to mate chickens?
Not exactly. The hen will only be receptive when she's in lay, so not when she's moulting. The rooster might try to mate all year round but his sperm count is higher in spring and summer.
Hi I have 5 roosters and one was the alpha for many months and now all of a sudden he is being thrown around by a rooster whom he used to bully a lot.They are all similar in age.Any idea what happened to him?The alpha suddenly getting displaced and thrown around after many months of domination.I have kept him aside now in a separate coop for his own safety.
Hello there. The social dynamics are interesting aren't they.
Something happened to your previously-alpha rooster, for sure, but I don't know what. Perhaps he got a bit of an illness (like you or me having an off day because we had a cold) and the other rooster just happened to notice and challenged him and won.
Or if they are all quite young, perhaps it was just that your previously-alpha rooster matured quickly and so was dominant but now the other rooster has matured and is naturally more dominant.
Either way, my guess is that things won't go back to how they were unless something happens to the now-dominant rooster.
@@chickensinmygarden thank you for the reply!means a lot!!❤️👍🏾
Ma'am...I have a question. I've got a hen from another flock. It has been laying eggs from a rooster from the previous flock. A rooster from my flock whose sperms I did not want my new gen to acquire has mated with her. Can I rest assured that the entire clutch she's laying until she broods will be from the rooster from the previous flock? Also if my favoured rooster mated with her though after the unfavoured one what are the possible outcomes? I'd really appreciate if you answered these queries.
Hi Gloria. The first question is easy - No. If the hen has mated with two roosters, regardless of the timing, her chicks could be from either.
Possible outcomes are:
All chicks from one rooster
All chicks from the other rooster
A batch of chicks where some are from one rooster and some from the other.
It is impossible for any of the chicks to be a mixture of both roosters.
Hope this is helpful 🙂
@@chickensinmygarden thank you so much for your prompt response. I appreciate it...it was very useful...thank you.
I have a question how long dose it take for a new rooster to be able to fertilize a chicken that had a different rooster with them?
At least a day for the new rooster to start fertilising eggs but a couple of weeks to be sure the previous roosters sperm is no longer fertilising eggs.
@@chickensinmygarden thank I’m a big fan of your work. !
Thank you 🙂
Good video 👍
Thank you 🙂
Is it possible for a hen to lay eggs without sperm ?
How it is done in farms, because they have only hens not roosters ?
Absolutely! A hen does NOT need a rooster to lay eggs. Most of the eggs we all eat are unfertlised. It is only if you want fertile eggs to hatch baby chicks that you need a rooster.
I have another couple of videos that you might find interesting -
th-cam.com/video/OHUPcZyPxXQ/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/ktytO3FGUSI/w-d-xo.html
Or just look around at my channel. I have lots of different topics about chickens.
Have a great day 🙂
If you are breeding hens to one rooster and you change roosters how long does it take for the hens to be fertile to the new rooster
As quickly as 2 days or as long as 6 weeks.
The new rooster's sperm can be fertilising the eggs of a hen who is receptive to him as soon as 2 days after meeting.
On the other hand, a hen who has sequestered the sperm of the previous rooster can continue to use that old sperm for as long as 6 weeks.
What do you do once you hatch the first chicks and you still have the same rooster!? Won’t he eventually mate with his offspring and make inbreeds?
He will. It's actually quite common for breeders to choose to do that if they have a good rooster.
But you can introduce an unrelated rooster of the same breed, preferably with traits that you want or lacking the faults your line has.
Can you eat fertilized eggs before development starts in them? Also, do they really taste any different than non-fertilized eggs?
Absolutely. And there is no difference in taste at all.
High performance Athletes prefer fertilized
Eggs as they’re more Nutritious
@@chickensinmygarden do you need to consider time by consuming it ? , I mean the moment u pick up 2 fertilized eggs put it in the fridge , one ate it the next day , the other next week , I guess it won't develop in a fridge..
You're right. Once the eggs are in the fridge they will last for weeks just like unfertilised eggs
what will you do if your rooster hadrating
'Hadrating'?
One thing I know about rooster that the will never attack me as I have three and tamed the two but the other one is a nice character anyway, the two that was attacking me I hit them with a thin piece of wood and they have been pretty good ever since except the one tried attacking again until hit him so hard his head nearly came off but he have been great ever since as the know I mean business, but on of my mates rooster was really vicious and my mate was fixing his jeep and for no reason it attacked him so he threw a hammer at him and he thought he killed it but after a while the rooster came around and started chasing and attacking him haha the fun of keeping roosters.
My rooster is trying to breed my 11 week old Americanas. I thought he had killed one so I separated him from them.
You're right - they are too young and if he corners them he could injure them. Keeping them separate for a while is a good idea 🙂
Haba
What can i give my rooster to mate my hens I dont think my rooster is matting my hens its been a few months and no babies.
Apart from time, good nutrition and a stress-free life I don't think there's much you can do to encourage your rooster. It would be worthwhile watching to see if he's mating or if the hens are rejecting him.
And worthwhile checking whether the eggs are fertile - could it be that he's doing his job but the hens are just not broody? Here's a video about how to tell.
th-cam.com/video/OHUPcZyPxXQ/w-d-xo.html
But some roosters just aren't as good as others - maybe he's just not a Romeo.
@chickensinmygarden I have him with five hens and they free range if they rejecting him what does that mean ? . Not a Romeo lol. And I don't know if they are laying
Well, first establish whether the hens are laying before you blame the rooster. He can't make babies on his own 😀
@chickensinmygarden I never seen him mating
How old is he? And how old are the hens?
Can a rooster mate with a 2 month pullet before she lays eggs
He will probably try. That could hurt the pullet because she is small and he is heavy for her, so it's not a good idea. But if you're asking whether it's possible for a pullet to lay fertile eggs even from her very first egg, then yes it's possible.
Madam is it necessary a rooster to mate every day with hen to produce fertile eggs.
No. The hen can store the sperm for days or weeks.
I only have 1 rooster with 14 hens. I have a hen sitting on eggs now. Will that rooster mate with their own?
I'm sorry I don't quite understand the question. Will the rooster mate with his own what? Offspring?
@Chickens in my garden will the rooster mate with their offspring?
Yes they certainly will. And it's quite common for breeders to do this deliberately if the rooster has some particularly desirable traits.
@Chickens in my garden Doesn't that cause genetic problems tho?
It doesn't CAUSE genetic problems. What it does is concentrate the genetic traits that are present in the (related) parents. So if there are good traits you get a double dose of good things. But if there are bad traits you get a double dose of them.
Many traits show up strongly in a double dose and not at all (or hardly at all) in a single dose. So the danger is that the next generation ends up with a double dose of something bad that you didn't even know was there.
If 2 or 3 different types of roosters mate with one hen so can that hen stores that 3 types of sperm in his gland for fertilize the eggs if it does so what type of bread is gonna hen make mix bread or one rooster bread or rejects other 2 rooster sperm..??? Plz reply
Yes the hen can store the sperm from several roosters and then use all the sperm to fertilise her eggs - so the chicks will have different fathers.
Alternatively the hen can reject the sperm from the rooster/s she doesn't like and keep the sperm from the rooster/s she does like.
Very clever 🙂
@@chickensinmygarden if we artificial inseminate the hen with multiple rooters semen so then how can hen reject the semen because hen does not know what type of semen is injected inside her and hen doesn't see any rooster in life only she lay eggs throw insemination plz reply ..??
That's true - I don't know how artificial insemination would work. Are you going to try it? If so you could tell me the answer
@@chickensinmygarden can you tell me when my hen lay egg i rapidly put in incubator within 1 minute does i doing right..??
No, not at all. You should let the egg rest somewhere cool for at least a day. And you should wait until you have collected all the eggs you will incubate (but preferably only a few days' worth) then put all of the eggs into the incubator at the same time.
In my next video I will cover in more detail how to store the eggs before you incubate them.
Can some one help me my cochin bantam rooster is not mating with my hen causing unfertile eggs although my hen is ready for mating
I assume he's old enough? Is he healthy?
Is he mating with other hens but not that one? Is he the leader of the flock or are the hens picking on him?
Was he raised with other chickens or hand reared?
Sometimes a rooster just doesn't like one particular hen, or he doesn't know how to mate properly at all with any hens. Most likely you will need another rooster.
@@chickensinmygarden ohh ok ty so much
Good luck 🙂
@@chickensinmygarden hey my rooster is mating now thank god i assume he didn't spend time with my hen
That's great!
i have both?
Both what?
It must be nice to live where you have no predators that want to eat your chickens. We have a long list of them here in the southern U.S. I had a huge red tailed hawk paying a visit to my run recently. Fortunately I was out there and she stayed perched in a tree until she got impatient and went elsewhere. A couple hours later I had a frantic call from a beginning chicken keeper, a hawk had attacked her hen and would definitely have killed her and taken her away to consume had they not been close enough to chase the hawk away. She needed to know what to do and of course she needed to stop the blood loss. Corn starch is excellent for that. The hen was in bad shape for a week or two, but with the great care she got, she recovered. However the other chickens won't accept her back in the flock. It's almost as if they think she's a predator magnet. They quite happily lived together before the attack. I did tell the young woman to keep her in a crate inside the coop/run and treat her wounds there, don't take her away from her flock mates. She didn't take the advice and took her into the garage. She now has 2 coops and 2 runs.You can only offer the advice you've learned over the many years of keeping chickens, but you can't make them take it lol.
That's very true, everyone has to walk their own path. I agree that keeping the injured chicken within sight of the flock would probably have helped. But at least she cared for her 🐔
@My Urban Garden Mary YES removing the hen is a prescription for problems. Predators are a huge problem in most of our country. I have had constant slaughter with hawk attacks. I can not free range. All sizes of hawks in the Northeast. It is heartbreaking but I would rather have that kind of wildlife abundance than not.
@@Mary-Mercedes True that, we have 4 Raptors that love chicken here in the south, not to mention the 4 legged ones. I haven't lost a chicken to a predator in years, but I know they are out there and it could happen. My girls semi free range, they have all of the backyard and it's a 1/4 acre. Although right now they've eaten all the green matter, they still forage for insects and I plant forage for them. I can understand you not free ranging after losing so many, I probably wouldn't either. Even the predators have their place and purpose for being here, God doesn't make mistakes.
I'm interested in how you plant forage for them - is that inside their quarter-acre range area? If so, what stops them digging up the baby plants before they reach edible size?
@@chickensinmygarden I seperate off the oats,clover etc until it's big enough to handle the hens. Within a couple of hours they can decimate the whole thing, so it's best to just give them a couple of hours a week so the forage has time to regenerate. It's also best to have several small plots planted within a week of each other, so they always have some greens. Plus I plant turnips, mustard and collards for us and share them with the chickens. If you don't have space for planting like that, it's so easy to grow those greens in pots, buckets and grow bags. I also check with my local supermarket for fruits and vegetables they are about to throw away. I'm usually to late for that one because others do the same thing.
Another genetics question if you dont mind
Are brahma chickens sex linked for feathers
I.e slow feathering for male fast feathering for females ?
I don't know much about Brahmas but I think they are a heavy breed and likely to show the feathering pattern.
@@chickensinmygarden thanks for ur reply
How about if you switch roosters?
How long until you can guarantee that the new roosters sperm has fertilised the eggs and not the original rooster?
About 6 weeks before you can be sure.
@@chickensinmygarden
Thank you.
I think I'm a chicken right now😂.I know a lot about them except of the red things on their head.What are they?
Check this out
th-cam.com/video/EQJYVTFWxoc/w-d-xo.html
I dont have chickens but i thought owning pet chickens was kinda dumb, this video showed me theyre a complex pet
They certainly are more intelligent than most people give them credit for. Did you know they see more colours than humans do?
I have other amazing facts about chickens in this playlist
th-cam.com/play/PLZkmuqBJd8WQgSeRlaczWLh45pKnL3cXF.html
What is the level of testosterone related to in the roosters? What shows the indication of it. Is it comb and wattles?
Yes - colour and size (for the breed) of comb and wattles. Plus the crow, although crowing frequency is not related
Is there any things to be done for high testosterone, or is it 100% genetics.
As far as I know the testosterone potential is genetics. External factors can lower the actual level below the potential - things like nutrition, disease, injury, stress, age, climate. But I'm not aware of any way to raise the actual level above the potential.
Interesting... Could you share about the last factor, climate? Thank you!
I was just meaning that testosterone levels are higher when the days are long and warm, but not too hot
So at what age do you introduce a rooster 🐓
Age of hens or age of rooster?
If I'm introducing a full-grown stranger rooster for the purpose of breeding I would ensure the hens were adult and laying, so that's at least 10 months old and in lay (not moulting).
If I bred the rooster he would have been with his hatch-mates since he was a chick and introduced to the main flock with them.
Why is my female chicken refusing to get mate
There could be lots of reasons, for example she might be too young, or moulting, or just hatched chicks, or just doesn't like that particular rooster.
The last time she hatched was April and still the same rooster that mate her then... even when I got another rooster two weeks ago she won't the rooster too
how to remove other male breed rooster sperm from other breed hen??
Just time. Wait for at least 3 weeks.
My last rooster was a thug and brutal rapist. No courtship dance. No warnings. Just ONE rooster to 21 hens -- also with an enormous fenced yard -- should have been easy and safe. But he never calmed down. He terrorized the more timid hens -- who starting huddling in the corners to try to be invisible. When that starting happening, combined with the wounds he kept inflicting on the poor girls, he was history. I feel sorry for hens housed with mean roosters. We have a vast number of predators and I could really use a good rooster to help protect them.
I have noticed that some roosters behave differently to hens as well as people. I had one that I never saw paying any attention to the hens except for deferring to them about food and yet the hens had nearly 100% fertility. I guess each individual has their own personality. Usually we have only one or a few roosters so there's no need to put up with a bad one 🙂
love the immature rooster crows
They are kind of adorable, aren't they 🙂
My rooster suddenly died , but his paired hen produce eggs after his death, about 4 to 5... Are these eggs will fertile or can produce chicks?? Kindly rply me
Yes they certainly could be 🙂
@@chickensinmygarden thnx....I m from Pakistan.....could be.....or surely be 😭😂
Sperm can remain viable for weeks in the hen's reproductive tract. Eggs laid a week after the rooster died are just as likely to be fertile as eggs laid the week before the rooster died.
Of course I have no way of knowing whether the rooster was mating successfully with that hen before he died. Nor whether the rooster was fertile nor how the eggs have been stored etc etc. All those have an impact on whether the eggs can successfully hatch into chicks.
My advice is to treat those eggs as fertile.
@@chickensinmygarden thank u verrrrrrry much ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@chickensinmygarden u was absolutely correct, by the grace of Allah my hen hatch out to produce those eggs which were hen produced after the death of male , ur observation was correct , sperm remain alive in the body of hen..thnxxxxxxx ❤️❤️❤️
How does America obtain 20 million fertilized eggs EVERY DAY?
USA consumes 20 million chickens daily.,
There are huge broiler parent breeder houses that rear the flock that will lay the fertile eggs that will be hatched into broiler chicks. These houses and the chickens in them are owned by one of just a couple of international companies Aviagen and Cobb-Vantress.
@@chickensinmygarden Incredible that sperm stays ACTIVE within the chicken for 6 weeks. Pray tell, how do the fertilized egg companies
inseminate the egg laying hens? Once a MONTH hand held (very laborious) or some other method. Thank you for the information.
Haha, the easy method! They have the roosters living with the hens, and the roosters do the job for them.
The generation you are asking about are the "Parent Stock Breeders" in this link
extension.psu.edu/modern-meat-chicken-industry/
@@chickensinmygarden Truly astonishing. The hens are laying FERTILIZED eggs for 40 weeks. One matting and the hen can stay fertile for 6 weeks.
Thank You for the information. Perhaps you could/would include it in your
FUTURE informative video.
my male chicken dance and try to beat the female chickens
Oh! Well i dont really like roosters because all they do is mate and mate! They always come on your hand and mate and that gross so yea