are roosters necessary for hens to lay eggs?
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Hens don't need a rooster in order to lay eggs. Without a rooster, the eggs are infertile, so won't develop into young chicks. ... If you are interested in having a rooster with your hens, there are several things you need to consider first.
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Chickens provide two sources of food frequently consumed by humans: their meat, also known as chicken, and eggs which they lay. ... A female chicken is called a 'hen'. A male chicken is called a 'rooster'. Young chickens are called 'chicks' or 'poults'.
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Hens and Eggs Hens will lay eggs regardless of whether or not they are being kept in the company of a rooster. Your laying hen's body is naturally intended to produce an egg once every 24 to 27 hours and it will form the egg regardless of whether the egg is actively fertilized during its formation.
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Day Old Chicks. The day old chickens come from certified hatcheries that breed chicks for the egg laying hen industry. ... The male chicks are obviously not usable for egg production, nor are they suitable for the meat production.
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Chickens can be let out to free range during the day and secured in a coop at night to avoid predation. The also require very little additional food, making them an inexpensive egg laying choice. ... Unlike chickens, quail will wander off, so they need to be kept in an area that restricts their movements.
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Chickens naturally stop laying eggs during the winter because their body needs to rest. It's a personal decision whether you want to force your hens to continue laying during this time. ... If you are using an artificial light in their coop, make sure your hens are occupied during the early hours with feed and water.
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Edible egg advocates even say it never happens. ... Hens do not need a rooster to lay an egg; they do so (almost daily) on their own simply according to light patterns. However, if a rooster does mate with a hen, the eggs she produces are fertilized and, under the right incubation conditions, can bear chicks.
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Technically, yes, eggs are vegetarian, since they are not animal flesh. ... Laying eggs to a chicken is similar to the menstrual cycle for a women. Hens lay eggs regardless of a Rooster being around her. This means that hens do not need to be pregnant to lay eggs.
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Most hens will lay their first egg around 18 weeks of age and then lay an egg almost daily thereafter. In their first year, you can expect up to 250 eggs from high-producing, well-fed backyard chickens.
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White eggs are laid by chickens with white feathers and white ear lobes, while brown eggs are laid by red-feathered chickens with red ear lobes. Chickens with red feathers are larger in body size and require more feed which is why brown eggs are more expensive on store shelves.
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At most, a hen (female chicken) can lay one egg a day—but a hen will not always lay an egg every day. ... If you want to keep a hen laying eggs year-round it is important to give them a constant number of hours of light every day. This is usually 14 hours of light (and 10 hours of dark) each day.
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When it comes to hue of the egg, the key lies in the breed of chicken. In general, white-feathered chickens with white earlobes lay white eggs, and reddish-brown-feathered chickens with red earlobes lay brown eggs. There are also breeds that lay less commonly found blue eggs and speckled eggs.
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D. Many hens lay their first egg around 18 weeks of age and then lay up to an egg each day, subject to breed, environment and individual bird. At 18 weeks, switch to a Purina® complete chicken layer feed to provide the added calcium laying hens need to produce an egg each day.
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Hens don't need a rooster in order to lay eggs. Without a rooster, the eggs are infertile, so won't develop into young chicks. ... Roosters can be kept together when they are young, but as they mature they will eventually fight which can lead to serious injuries.
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That's the case right around the world. Unlike the case for the egg industry, where only hens are required to lay the eggs that are sold for human consumption, both male and female meat chickens can be and are grown for meat and are equally valued by the chicken meat industry.
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From what I can find poking around the internet, game hens are a subset of chickens that were originally bred for cockfighting. There are thousands of chicken breeds throughout the world, and those breeds that were produced for cockfighting were called game hens.
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Edible egg advocates even say it never happens. ... The difference between fertilized and unfertilized eggs comes down to whether a rooster has been involved or not. Hens do not need a rooster to lay an egg; they do so (almost daily) on their own simply according to light patterns.