When will eggs come from specific rooster ?

[Lspears218]

Hello-

I have a flock of all different breeds, I would like to separate my silkie hens and roosters to hatch silkie eggs. Since the hen has the potential of laying mixed breed eggs at this moment, how long should I wait to know that she will certainly lay only silkie eggs? Hope it makes sense. Thanks!

 

[Party_Chicken]

Hello-

I have a flock of all different breeds, I would like to separate my silkie hens and roosters to hatch silkie eggs. Since the hen has the potential of laying mixed breed eggs at this moment, how long should I wait to know that she will certainly lay only silkie eggs? Hope it makes sense. Thanks!

Wait about 5-7 days then start collecting for the hatch.

 

[mcdze]

id say 4 weeks if you want to be certain the mixed genes are all gone ..

 

[SilverBirds]

A hen can still be fertile after 4-5 weeks after mating with a rooster. I'd separate your breeding pairs now but wait a minimum of 4 weeks before incubating any eggs from them.

 

[Lspears218]

Wait about 5-7 days then start collecting for the hatch.

Thanks a ton!

 

[BlessedChaosHomestead]

A hen can still be fertile after 4-5 weeks after mating with a rooster. I'd separate your breeding pairs now but wait a minimum of 4 weeks before incubating any eggs from them.

What?! How?! lol

Is there any articles you could link me on that? I have never heard of that.

 

[SilverBirds]

What?! How?! lol

Is there any articles you could link me on that? I have never heard of that.

Here are a few articles and threads.

https://www.cacklehatchery.com/how-long-after-mating-does-a-hen-lay-fertile-eggs/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...perm-stay-active-in-an-egg-laying-hen.368698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3944358/#:~:text=Because of the presence of this structure, once ejaculated sperm,span of mammalian spermatozoa (i.e.,

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/how-long-to-clear-a-roosters-sperm.436458/

Edit: accidently posted before I finish linking the articles lol

 

[allenw]

A hen can still be fertile after 4-5 weeks after mating with a rooster. I'd separate your breeding pairs now but wait a minimum of 4 weeks before incubating any eggs from them.

As long as you can tell any potential mixed offspring I wouldn't worry after the first week of switching roosters.

After a week start saving eggs to set, to many things can go wrong to wait a month for a declining possibility to reach near zero.

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

Hello-

I have a flock of all different breeds, I would like to separate my silkie hens and roosters to hatch silkie eggs. Since the hen has the potential of laying mixed breed eggs at this moment, how long should I wait to know that she will certainly lay only silkie eggs? Hope it makes sense. Thanks!

I've had it only take 3 days before but I usually wait 6 or 7 days.

 

[Ridgerunner]

how long should I wait to know that she will certainly lay only silkie eggs?

I don't know if you followed some of those links or not. You generally don't get guarantees with much associated with chickens and your question is one of those.

First, I'll go through something else that might help you in your planning. It takes an egg about 25 hours to go through a hen's internal egg making factory. Thet egg can only be fertilized during the first few minutes of that journey. That means is a successful mating takes place on a Monday, Monday's egg cannot be fertile from that mating. Tuesday's egg may or may not be fertile from that mating, depending on timing. Wednesday's egg should be.

A rooster does not always mate with every hen in his flock every day, but he doesn't have to. In the last part of the mating act the rooster hops off, his part is done. The hen stands up, fluffs up, and shakes. This fluffy shake moves the sperm into a special "container" where it is stored. That sperm can remain viable in that container anywhere from a little over a week until who knows how long. Sometimes it only lasts two weeks or so. There have been a few times it has lasted over four weeks. A very few over five weeks.

As I said, you don't get guarantees with this but you can be somewhat sure after three weeks, but four weeks will give you a lot more confidence. As for over four weeks, I don't get struck by lightening that often so I'd take my chances with four weeks. I don't plan my life around something very unlikely to happen.