byrumjr
Drop the eggs in a bowl of water if they goes to the bottom it fresh and the higher it floats the older it is. Any eggs that floats are bad.
yes, you may. It just depends on the mood of the hen. Some breed of hens leaves their eggs after laying, while some of them became aggressive even you are only trying to touch it.
Take the hen across first. Go back alone. Take the fox. Take the hen back. Get the food and leave the hen. Go back alone. Take the hen.
Yes and what you can do to see if there is any eggs under the hen is you can take a stick and lightly lift the hen up and see if there is any eggs under her!
If the hen lays one egg per day it would take 1 year.
If you are taking about the hen sitting on eggs then it will make things easy for you and the hen. you will have a better outcome if you move the hen or take the rooster out.
She is broody. This is when a hen instinctively needs to collect and hatch a brood of chicks. If you don't wish her to brood eggs simply keep taking the eggs away and she will eventually leave the nest.
a hen can still lay fertilized eggs up to 30 days after contact with a rooster
Accorsing to the staff trainers at my company... an ostrich egg is the equivalent to 18 chicken eggs.
They sit in the hen house on eggs, on the roost or in a nest.
If they froze solid then there is little point in allowing her to waste the next 21 days trying to hatch non viable eggs. If you remove the eggs she will start to lay more to replace them or go off brood altogether. If the eggs merely got cold then she may continue to brood with only some reduction in a full hatch.
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I take it that you mean "hen's eggs". These can be brown, or white. As for other birds, eggs come in a wide variety of colors.