Rooster sitting on eggs?!!

[Hamudazahabi]

It’s great you have an incubator! Since you have one I would just do that!

Yeah I didn't have but I made one myself. I basically connected a light bulb to a thermostat which turns of the light bulb when the thermometer tests a specific temperature, which can be changed, and then I used a styrofoam box with all these things connected, and the thermometer on the eggs.

By the way, I came out and the rooster was just sitting infront of the door. I took some pictures for memory.

 

[Farmgirl283420]

Yeah I didn't have but I made one myself. I basically connected a light bulb to a thermostat which turns of the light bulb when the thermometer tests a specific temperature, which can be changed, and then I used a styrofoam box with all these things connected, and the thermometer on the eggs.

By the way, I came out and the rooster was just sitting infront of the door. I took some pictures for memory.
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Sorry about your rooster! He’s a very handsome boy! I love the color of his eyes.

 

[Hamudazahabi]

Sorry about your rooster! He’s a very handsome boy! I love the color of his eyes.

Yeah he's the nicest rooster so far. He lived here for many years with these chickens, but I guess every creature with life has an end...

I have two other roosters which are young, 6 months old, and I think one of them will replace him but I am not sure what I will do to the other, and I am not sure which one to pick either, I guess I will wait till they become more mature because they are still not mating and fertilizing the eggs yet, and I heard they usually mature later than other breeds, but I see them fighting a lot.

 

[Blue is my chicken]

I am so sorry for your loss he is a beautiful bird

You could candle your hens eggs and see how old the different eggs are, I have gotten very good at ageing eggs from these guides, this one is for call ducks but it is fairly similar for all ducks https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/call-duck-incubation-day-by-day-candleing.77411/
And this is for chickens https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...ion-through-incubation-of-chicken-eggs.47879/

I couldn't find one for muscovys or normal ducks but these should help

You might not care but I personally like to now when my eggs are going to hatch so I know when to heat my incubator up (I always heat my incubator up incase mum leaves or she attacks the babys) and get a pen/hutch (for the first week i keep my babies and mum in a rabbit hutch) ready for them

Good luck

 

[Hamudazahabi]

I am so sorry for your loss he is a beautiful bird

You could candle your hens eggs and see how old the different eggs are, I have gotten very good at ageing eggs from these guides, this one is for call ducks but it is fairly similar for all ducks https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/call-duck-incubation-day-by-day-candleing.77411/
And this is for chickens https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...ion-through-incubation-of-chicken-eggs.47879/

I couldn't find one for muscovys or normal ducks but these should help

You might not care but I personally like to now when my eggs are going to hatch so I know when to heat my incubator up (I always heat my incubator up incase mum leaves or she attacks the babys) and get a pen/hutch (for the first week i keep my babies and mum in a rabbit hutch) ready for them

Good luck

I will check them out and try. The hard part is checking the eggs. I have to know when it leaves the place so that I come. Otherwise it would not allow me to take anything.

By the way, the rooster seemed to be suffering so we decided to slaughter it. We took it to a person who slaughters because he has a machine which easily removes the feathers after. He found that there were some worms so he removed the whole part with worms and threw it away (I think the worms came later because he couldn't move to clean himself, any dirtiness that comes out of him sticks on him, which caused worms to come.)

It didn't shout at all or do anything, it seems to have already know it will die soon or submitted to its fate basically. We did it because atleast he won't feel pain anymore.

I think it was the best rooster and I think it did more than its job very well. It was strong and defensive and quite aggressive, but it was also beautiful and it will always be in my memories.

It lived for around 9 years with me, and I bought it already probably around 2-3 years old, so it lived long enough, and everything that has a start, has to end.

 

[Blue is my chicken]

By the way, the rooster seemed to be suffering so we decided to slaughter it. We took it to a person who slaughters because he has a machine which easily removes the feathers after. He found that there were some worms so he removed the whole part with worms and threw it away (I think the worms came later because he couldn't move to clean himself, any dirtiness that comes out of him sticks on him, which caused worms to come.)

It didn't shout at all or do anything, it seems to have already know it will die soon or submitted to its fate basically. We did it because atleast he won't feel pain anymore.

I think it was the best rooster and I think it did more than its job very well. It was strong and defensive and quite aggressive, but it was also beautiful and it will always be in my memories.

It lived for around 9 years with me, and I bought it already probably around 2-3 years old, so it lived long enough, and everything has a start, has to end.

Poor baby you did the right thing culling him, he lived a long happy life

 

[Farmgirl283420]

I will check them out and try. The hard part is checking the eggs. I have to know when it leaves the place so that I come. Otherwise it would not allow me to take anything.

By the way, the rooster seemed to be suffering so we decided to slaughter it. We took it to a person who slaughters because he has a machine which easily removes the feathers after. He found that there were some worms so he removed the whole part with worms and threw it away (I think the worms came later because he couldn't move to clean himself, any dirtiness that comes out of him sticks on him, which caused worms to come.)

It didn't shout at all or do anything, it seems to have already know it will die soon or submitted to its fate basically. We did it because atleast he won't feel pain anymore.

I think it was the best rooster and I think it did more than its job very well. It was strong and defensive and quite aggressive, but it was also beautiful and it will always be in my memories.

It lived for around 9 years with me, and I bought it already probably around 2-3 years old, so it lived long enough, and everything that has a start, has to end.

Nine years is a long time for a chicken! I’m sure he enjoyed his life with his hens.

 

[Yardmom]

Sorry you had to put your boy down. Over 9 years is definitely a long life for a rooster.

If you want your dated eggs to hatch, you need to make sure the nest doesn't get to full. If she gets to many eggs all eggs will get rotated out of the heat. Even if the duck eggs were started at the same time they would be to far behind. Personally I would remove all duck eggs, and anything added in the future. It is up to you if that means incubating. Even in an incubator staggered eggs can be a challenge.

 

[Hamudazahabi]

Poor baby you did the right thing culling him, he lived a long happy life

Nine years is a long time for a chicken! I’m sure he enjoyed his life with his hens.

Sorry you had to put your boy down. Over 9 years is definitely a long life for a rooster.

Thank you all. Today I got an egg which was on the ground near the chicken, I think it moved and was under it but I didn't know about that, as it was cold, and so I broke it to eat it and it had blood vessel in it, which means it was that it was under it and more importantly it means it is fertilized. I removed the vein and the rest of the egg seemed normal (I hope there is nothing wrong in eating it after removing the vein because I did, it tasted normal)

The part I cared most about is that the eggs under her are fertilized even though that rooster was not fertilizing for long, which probably means one of the two cockerels with them fertilized the eggs, and I noticed that one of them is already crowing many times throughout the day.
I thought only the ones I brought from my other chicken seperated and put under her were fertilized.

If you want your dated eggs to hatch, you need to make sure the nest doesn't get to full.

It's actually sitting on so many eggs already and I didn't count them yet but I can see eggs under it from every direction. They lay eggs next to it and it just keeps taking them.

If she gets to many eggs all eggs will get rotated out of the heat. Even if the duck eggs were started at the same time they would be to far behind.

Yes, but each duck egg was layed on a different day which makes it even harder.

Personally I would remove all duck eggs, and anything added in the future.

The problem is I am not sure which eggs of them are fertilized and which are not. I don't think that the eggs it initially were fertilized. One of the duck eggs were from the eggs it initially got broody and sat on the first day and I think it is fertilized.

It is up to you if that means incubating. Even in an incubator staggered eggs can be a challenge.

I think that's the best solution I have though, because I am not sure when I can check the eggs, and so once any hatch, I would take all the rest to the incubator.

Thank you for helping.

 

[Blue is my chicken]

Staggered hatches might be hard but I have had good success with Staggered hatches, this year I hatched 8 call ducklings (2 of which died for other reasons) first baby hatched 7th April the next 4 hatched 16th April and last 3 hatched 2nd May, they all stayed in the same incubator through their whole incubation and hatching

If you want any Info on staggered hatching or if you get pictures of the candling and can't figure out how old they are am happy to help

Good luck