Having an incubator is a must, in my opinion, just to keep them separate from the food eggs. Doing it with a hen makes it so difficult because you have to assume all of the eggs are old and fertilized. It was a mess. Now, we have a lot more control.
We will collect over the next few weeks so we can identify all incoming chicks that are roosters by the fall, and we can butcher with the meat chickens.
