Does anyone out there know the answer to this question......
When a rooster breeds with a hen, how long is that "encounter" good for making fertilized eggs? Is his sperm only viable for the egg that is about to be laid or is it good for a couple days? Ms. Scarlet started setting on the eggs a day or two before The Colonel left, and I was just wondering.....
I've got a chicken "birds & bees" question...
Now Glenda, Im an Old chicken loving granny, and Ive been wondering the same thing! Goooooood question!
Glenda and Eu,
That is a good question!!! In the book my son brought home from school it said the male sperm is not visable to a human eye but
makes the eggs very fertilized eggs and the are good for many days... That means that she can keep setting eggs until she is done..Is she getting up off the eggs? She can lay up to 12 eggs
and then she will sit for 21 days..
Hope this helps..
Tracey
Does that mean that when The Colonel had his last encounter with Miss Scarlet, that his sperm remains alive and viable the whole time (12 days) she lays her next 12 eggs???
I really want to know (how long) his sperm, from 1 encounter, is viable for fertilization? Hours, days, weeks??
….Leave it to me to ask this kind of question.
From the MSU poultry website FAQ
"Poultry
Time hens continue to produce fertile eggs
If the rooster in a flock dies, or is removed, the hens will continue to produce fertile eggs for up to 4 weeks, depending on bird species. This is because there are "sperm nest" areas located in the oviduct of hens that collect and store semen for later fertilization of eggs. This is a natural survival mechanism for the production of a series of fertile hatching eggs even after the male is not available. The period of time that fertile eggs can be produced without additional matings can extend to several weeks. If a rooster is removed from the flock and replaced by another, it may require 3 weeks before it can be assured that all eggs will produce chicks sired by the new rooster. The proportion of chicks sired by the new rooster will increase during this period, but some chicks sired by the old rooster may hatch. Birds like turkeys and waterfowl have longer periods during which fertile eggs can be produced without matings."
Is that what you were looking for, or do you need the actual length of time chicken sperm is viable? I had more trouble looking that up, most of the info was related to AI in chickens.
HTH,
Margo
Well now sir, How about that!!!! glad i wasnt born a chicken!!!!
Margo,
Thank you! That is exactly what I was looking for! It's good to know that Miss Scarlet may still hatch some chicks.
If you wouldn't mind, would you please post the link to the website where you found that information? I'd like to save it in my "chicken" file.
Sure appreciate your help!! :)
~~ Glenda
Birds and bees trivia.
The heterogametic (Xy) sex in birds is called female, the homogametic sex (XX) is male.
In mules the male is sterile (per Haldane's Rule), in mule ducks the female is sterile.
Male social insects come from unfertilized eggs. A drone has 16 chomosomes, a worker or queen has 16 pairs. Worker bees cannot mate, but sometimes lay eggs. The result is always male.
Wow UUallace, that's impressive! Very interesting. Did you just know this off the top of your head, or do you work in a field requiring this knowledge? ...It's amazing all information that science has been able to glean in the past 100 years.
Dangit! You had me until you through a mule,,,and a mule-duck cross into the barnyard!
"if you see my little red rooster,,, please .... drive him home"
Turkeybeard, you made me laught and LOLOLO...
You are to funny ...
Tracey
Eufaula, you "Old chicken loving granny" ;), did you have any idea that chickens worked that way??? That's amazing.
Maybe I should just "rent" a rooster for a couple days.... lol
Now I know why my old hen started laying and hatched 3 babies last year , After the rooster had been gone( thanks to a hawk) for 3 weeks before she went broody! I thought we just had a really friendly neighbor rooster visiting when I wasnt looking!!!
"You had me until you through a mule,,,and a mule-duck cross"
A mule duck is not an equine cross. It is a cross of a Muscovy (which do not come from Moscow) and any other duck breed.
I am not saying a equine can't be crossed with a duck. Genetic mapping of humans was done by creating Mouseketeers. Mice had been extensivley mapped. They created somatic hybrids. They only survive a few cell divisions. There have been animal plant hybrids that only last a few hours.
Hey! Wasn't Annette funnicello and that gay guy from Lawrence welk,,Mousekateers ,,LOL
And ,,,well come to speak of it,,,wasn't brittany Spears and That Timberlake fellow ,,too!
GEEEEZ! And not to mention,,the animal plant hybrids... We all know what can result from that!!! Al Gore.
Just kidding around UUallace.
I do not believe anything that I read, or hear,,,unless I already know it to be true! Or I decide to check it out myself.
Especially on a forum!
But hey! Keep it going if you want,,I love it.
You sound like a smart fellar!
UUallace,
Does that technically make them a chimera?
A chimera is a mixture of two different cells. Grafting Crataegus (Hawthorn) on Mespilus (Medlar) or vice versa will result in a chimera.
In nuclear* fusion the cell walls are removed with enzymes, then merged. Sometimes electricity is used. Some are eager to fuse. A typical tetraploid (4x) has four sets of chomosomes (DNA in the nucleus) and one set of chondriosomes (DNA outside of the nucleus). Fused diploid (2n) cells have all of the chromosomes and all of the chondriosomes of both parents (4x+). It builds a new cell wall and divides normally.
Journal of Heredity
Tobacco-hamster hybrid
http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/72/2/81
My interest is in crossing Vireyas with regular Rhododendrons. In a normal cross (either direction) by mechanical means the pollen tube grows and grows and grows and grows. Fertilization never occurs.
*No I do not mean nuculur fission. That is a presidential decision.
Huh?
Have there been any successful attempts to create animal/animal chimeras, or even animal/human chimeras?
I hope not.
Seriously, dude. I'm enough of a donkey myself on occasion, I don't need to be crossed with one!
Glenda these are NOT chimeras. (e.g. a human Klinefelters-male chimera, half of the cells would be XXy and half would be Xy,) All of the cells are the same they have all of the chromosomes of both parents.
Mouseketeers are sucessful from the point of showing how the chromosomes pair, and which gene is where. The chance of reaching maturity is nil.
Oliver had 48 chromosomes, so he was determined to be a chimp. Humans have 46, however #1 (largest) in humans is equal to #3 and #7 in the chimp, gorilla and bonobo. Our #2 is their #1. An F-1 hybrid would have 47 chromosomes. Oliver could have been generation F-2.
People are impressed by acts with infant and juvenile chimps. A teenager four times as strong as you is going to do whatever he wants. It is only a matter of time until the NFL starts breeding players.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_(chimpanzee)
Food for thought: Does one have a soul from conception? Do these have a soul? Do identical twins (one conception) share a soul?
I asked only because a year or so, I read a news report about a group of scientists, not in America, who were trying to create animal/human chimeras. The news report did not say to what degree they had been successful, if at all.
Personally, I do not approve of such experimentation.
OMG! I think the original post was taken care of! So , I am outa this thread.
Yes, my original question was answered. Thank you to all who helped me out. As always, you all are a big help - taking me from zero to 60 in a matter of minutes. :)
Turkeybeard, I don't blame ya at all for bailing out. I will tell you though; I always enjoy reading your posts. You always make me chuckle. You've got a great whit! :)
I'll still keep an eye out for new posts here though. I don't mind if threads wander off the subject as long as folks are having fun and learning new things. Enjoy y'all!
~~ Glenda