[Emma]

Can a chicken lay eggs without a rooster???

[ballingall]

The quick answer.... Yes.

Ducks however have to have a drake with them for them to lay.

 

Beth

[Hermit]

Yes. Vegetarians eat unfertilised eggs as they are not embryos and therefore meat. Hermit

[Emma]

Cheers helped alot. . .

[plumseverywhere]

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 

[jameslindsay]

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.

[harry]

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.

[dixie]

You sure that a duck wont lay without a drake??

[harry]

that was a new one to me as well

[doganjo]

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.

[gavo]

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.

[harry]

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.

[langdon]

ere ere quite right chap!

[lazybee]

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

[langdon]

oh dear what have we started ere!
its gona be like all those point of views about lambing live!!!!!!!
by the way its a cockerel