silenzio !

hi danny. here in italy the weater is more hot than in Belgium. in my town the last week there are -10°,for 4 days! my hens depose a great number of eggs and the eggs are fertilise. now it's raining. only the ducks and geese aren't deposing.

i've read that some cocks are not fertile,especially the big breed than brahma or orpington. my breeds are only small-fowl than italianer ancona and hamburg. the cocks are always active with the hens! maybe silkies(moroseta) don't bear the cold than other breeds so the don't produce spermatozzons. if the winter is particullary cold and long the production of fertile eggs is not possible.

Hi danny!!Yes also by me nobody lay eggs!It's strange because last year they laied eggs for all december and january..but last year they were at my home that is about 3-4 C° more than where they are now, now they are in open wild.Infact at my home where I have buff bantam some lay
I think on the second week of february they will start

Insomma tutto il mondo è paese.... e io che mi stavo preoccupando che non trovavo neanche un ovetto.... Betta

the reason is the weater! it's too cold

Bonjour,

Mes poules ont eu quelques oeufs. J'en ai mis 19 en couveuses, et la semaine prochaine je saurais s'ils sont fécondés ou pas...

Buongiorno,

Le mie galline hanno avuto alcune uova. Ne ho messo 19 in incubatrici, e la settimana prossima saprei se sono fertilizzati o non…

Hm, here in Pietrasanta the temperature in this moment is 12 -15 and sunny, in the morning theres " la brina" a thin layer of white ice on the green grass in the morning. I have a white moroseta that lay one egg almost every day, one buff one as well. The buff one was the one that sat on the eggs in December and I kept her alone, because the others where picking on her when I put her with the others. Today I put her with the others.
My plan was to wait and see what the chickens would produce by themself this spring, but then curiosity got the cat and I put 4 eggs of the white hen in my incubator. Then I continued to put the daily egg inside.
Well, I dont know how it will end, but I can see the formation, the spider in 3 of them so far!
I was not sure the cook was doing his job, since he was a very timid dutch breed and the white hen was the dominant one.
My blue morogirl has not deposed yet, as far as i know...
As soon as I put the buff girl inside my pearlgray Gandalf did his job. When I let the white and blue ones in ,they had been let out for a stroll, the buff one had to sink to the ground to show her submissivness! She looked almost like a "Struzzo"! But its better for her to be in company, she has had more than a month to eat herself up to her usual strength!
I am very curious to see if we will have any black moro chicks, shortly before carneval, since that should be the outcome of a white/splash female and pearlgreay rooster! : )