The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Emma on March 14, 2010, 06:27:40 pm
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Can a chicken lay eggs without a rooster???
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The quick answer.... Yes.
Ducks however have to have a drake with them for them to lay.
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Beth
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Yes. Vegetarians eat unfertilised eggs as they are not embryos and therefore meat. Hermit
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Cheers helped alot. . .
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Domestic fowl trust actually suggest that hens lay better without a cockeral
hassling running with them as they are less stressed ...but then I'm STILL only getting 3 a day from 11 hens (no cockeral) so can't really say much ::)
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I have 9 girls that run with a cockerel and most days I am getting 8 or 9 eggs. The ducks are now laying good too.
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just a small point, no such thing as a rooster in gt britian, we do take aways here not FOOD TO GO, and we dont have roosters.
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You sure that a duck wont lay without a drake?????
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that was a new one to me as well ???
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that was a new one to me as well ???
And me! My girls did - for 3 months after my last drake was killed by Allez's grannie(retreived him by the neck instead of the body poor thing), they kept on laying from August until I was given Jack in December.
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Well in this bit of Gt Britain they are known by everyone as roosters that inc top breeders. Does it really matter? Most people know what is meant by a rooster.
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no it doesnt matter i was being trivial, it only matters if you dont want to be americainised. if you want a rooster they live in the usa. i dont mind the yanks but i dont want to be americianised. hoods, trunks, fries, to go, over easy, and definiatly not have a nice day. god save us.
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ere ere quite right chap! ;) :chook:
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I can be even more trivial ::) It's actually a cock if it's mature. A cockerel is a young un. I don't think people like saying cock ;D
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oh dear what have we started ere!
its gona be like all those point of views about lambing live!!!!!!! ;D :chook:
by the way its a cockerel >:(
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mine is just described as a "big b*****" ;D
and the other is chook-chook (long story)
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i like saying cock ;D cock cock cock cock, cocks 1, roosters nil, where are our usa friends. by the way ive fixed the hole in my butt
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I'm glad to hear your butt is no longer leaking - can't be pleasant! ;D
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here we go again, ;D no not pleasent it made my trousers wet one day.
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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here we go again, ;D no not pleasent it made my trousers wet one day.
Not trousers you mean your 'pants' ;D ;D
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this topic is about cocks not my pants :o
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All appears to be the same department if you know what i mean?
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NO i dont know what you mean ??? i was taking my cock for a walk when the cork i used to bung up my butt came out and somehow my cock got wet.......... EMMA the newby must be wondering what happened to her question.
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where are the yanks
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I dunno our roosters live in Northern Ireland; we don't see many yanks; cos they're scaredy pants.
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stop saying roosters and pants, its COCKS and trousers, ime going to take an axe to my cock tommorow :o
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OMG The mind boggles ::) - what was that woman's name that did that to her ex? ??? ;D ;D
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MAD ANNE. by the way your hen will lay without a rooster, cockeral or cock.... ime going to bed. bye
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Make sure your cock/rooster goes to bed too. Night Harry
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Make sure your cock/rooster goes to bed too. Night Harry
And make sure he's standing proud in the morning to wake you up.................in the chicken run.
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lol lol im wetting meself reading all of this ;D
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theres nothing funny about your butt starting to leak :o your butt needs plugging as well then. get someone to force a cork in.
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Emma. does this help?
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
PMSL
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???
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I can be even more trivial ::) It's actually a cock if it's mature. A cockerel is a young un. I don't think people like saying cock ;D
Unless you keep gamefowl...then it's a 'stag' (steg in Ireland) for a young bird, and an older bird is a cock.
My favourite saying is...'early to bed and up with the cock'. :D
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How my cock has grown over the last few months :o
Joking aside, George (the cock(erel?)) is truely amazing! He fought off a fox saving my lovely girls from a terrible plight!!!! George had blood all round his beek! I was worried until I realised it wasn't his! Must have been foxy's!!!!
He is also a proud father. Next door neighbour (Bobby) had a broody so I gave her some lovely eggs (George is a busy boy!!). The lovely new addition (to her flock) is a lovely ginger chick (ex-batt and George!!!). AMAZING!!!!!! ;D
Does that make me a Granny?!?!?
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oh missus, a cock fight :o
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aengus, that doesnt sound correct, stag, thats for turkeys only surely
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theres nothing funny about your butt starting to leak :o your butt needs plugging as well then. get someone to force a cork in.
I'm crying with laughter here. Harry you're terrible ;D ;D ;D
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me two ;D
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and me! ;D ;D
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Lol i was only askin if my hen's will lay without a rooster, cock, cockerel, daddy bird, male hen what ever you wanna call it. . . Well i'm off now y'all to have some fries with over easy egg's lol . . . Thanks for the help guy's . . . :chook: