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fertile egg question

17 years ago

I have one, 9 mos old, rooster to 20 hens. What are the chances that I will have enough fertile eggs to get peeps next spring?

I do plan to candle them at 2 weeks but would like a large percentage of them to be fertile. Do I need another rooster? I don't wnat to get one and have them fight all the time. I do free range them most days but they are housed altogether and I don't let them out in really bad weather, winter storms, etc. so they are shut up together all day occasionally. Will I have problems with a second rooster?

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