about a half hour
As soon as the male serves the hens then the eggs should be fertilised.
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Oh come on people,,, one rooster per every 15 hens is quite sufficient to fertilize your next spring out birth. After spring kick him out, if you think you can leave him and you see the rooster picks your hens to death, throw him out, and leave him on the outskirsts. Hens will lay, feathers will grow, and as long as you gave him springtime, you'll have chicks. Watch your brood hens and you can still gather eggs from the lonesome nests. Let your hens choose their laying field. Sometimes 2 hens take over the same eggs. Let them be. They will work it out, it's called survival. You'll find 2 hens taking care of the same growth, without any rivaltism. You'll have chicks that follow 2 brood hens with twice the coverage from the other hens. You have 11 eggs, 2 hens in interest, 6 eggs hatch, neither mother knows who is who and they defend these 6 chicks against the other 14 hens until one day all the hens look over the young. This is their survival.
As long as there is no rooster around to mate with the hens, you will not receive fertile eggs.
As long as no humans collect them or critters eat them, they are very safe if the hens can set on them as needed to hatch.
It can take 6 to 12 months before Barnevelder hens start to lay eggs. The exact time is different for each hen.
Roosters don't lay eggs. Hens do.
21 days from the first day conditions are optimum. A constant temperature of 100 F and a humidity of 60% are ideal. Hens will take up to a week to collect a clutch of eggs and then start brooding when enough eggs are collected. Hens will steal eggs laid by other hens to add to her clutch.
I'll tell you as soon as they've come out, someone told me about 20 days and one of our hens is sitting on her eggs now.
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Mine started mating yesterday and I found three eggs today. I have two Golden Comet hens, two Rhode Island Red hens and one Rhode Island Red Rooster.
I believe it is best if you dont introduce just one hen. there is a better chance of introducing two hens that know each other to another two hens which know each other. that way the hens you had alredy will not pick on the new hen. And i am not sure how long i would wait but it may take at least a few weeks. I had the same problem not too long ago!what you should do is put the third hen in a small cage inside the hutch/cage that you have the other hens in. only leave the third hen in there for a week at most! make sure that the other hens can see her! this will help in that the other two hens will get used to seeing her with them and then after the week release the 3rd hen with the othe hens ! they should get a long! good luck