So you finally got those harried hens! Congratulations! Now...all those eggs, and what to do with them! If you have a rooster, well, you can save out a few of those eggs and hatch them out and expand your flock for the next season/s...if you have an incubator or a hen who will actually "brood". At our place, we have hens that will actually brood. In my limited, but expanding experience with poultry, I have found that bantams are very good brooders, and so are the Buff Orpingtons...one very good reason why we have had and still have this breed around. Much to our surprise, however, we actually had a Rhode Island Red and a Wyandotte both "set" on eggs last year. Any way...
In selecting your eggs that you want to incubate, it is a good idea to select the most "choice" eggs. And, I have heard from some fairly reliable sources, that if you want to have more hens, you should select eggs that are more roundish...if you want to raise roosters for the BBQ, you should select eggs that are more...how shall I say..."pointy".
Presently, we have a Buff sitting on 7 eggs...which is probably a good number, being its probably the best number she can handle, and for the little "roll of the dice" experiment we are attempting. We have 4 roundish eggs, and 3 pointy eggs. And, in approximately 15 more days (chicken eggs take just 21 days to hatch), we shall see how the sexing of eggs "hatches" out. Of course, it will take about 2 months to really know how things went, but in the mean time, I thought I would pass on this little tid-bit of info and perhaps you may be interested in trying this experiment yourself!
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