NH Homesteader's journal

[baymule]

I was rooster less for years because I lived in town. Moved to the country and got roosters. Have made a lot of mean rooster soup! Have a Wellsummer too attacking through the wire, soup coming up!

Hope your DH recovers quickly!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

A Lexus with a trailer hitch, lol! I lOVE IT! Boy wouldn't you get some looks hauling goats or pigs around behind a Lexus! You gotta do it!

 

[NH Homesteader]

Trust me, it will happen! Lol goats anyway, DH can haul pigs in his big truck !

 

[sumi]

I used to haul pigs IN my little hatchback car years ago… Stopped by my mechanic one day with some weaned piglets in feed sacks in the boot. I got out and walked up to him and his assistant to talk with them and I saw he copped on what the noise was, but his assistant didn't, so I decided to have some fun with him. I said to him "Deverick, there is something SERIOUSLY wrong with my car this time! Listen to her!" He looked at me, looked at the car, walked to the car (looking puzzled and slightly alarmed), stopped, looked at me again, looked at the car… Clearly trying to figure out the noise. We all corpsed. It was so funny! He knew the sound of piglets squealing, but coming from the car it threw him.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

That musta been a hoot!

 

[Wannabefree]

Sounds like something I'd do

 

[NH Homesteader]

Lol that's awesome!

Hey chicken folks, how long can you get fertile eggs after uh.... Your rooster goes away. Lol

 

[frustratedearthmother]

A couple weeks for sure...I've heard longer, but I have hatched eggs laid 2 weeks after a rooster died. Only reason I didn't try to collect more for a longer period was that I ran out of room in the incubator.

Is the Cornish rooster behaving any better after seeing what happened to Brewster?

 

[Wannabefree]

I've gotten some as far as 4 weeks out

 

[tortoise]

I have heard it's months. I think 4 months? I kick my roosters out over winter - all winter - to control breeding in spring. My personal experience is 2 weeks. We started collecting eggs to incubate immediately after rooster died and didn't try longer than that. We got a good hatch
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