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Yes. The rooster fertilizes the egg.
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I want to have chickens and a rooster but dont want babies all the time how do you prevent this?
If you have hens, and a rooster, no matter what you will have babies. You can keep them in a separate pen, and it won't happen. Or, you could fix the rooster, but then it won't be a rooster any more. It's logic.
Did ancient Egypt have any roosters?
Were ther chickens? If yes, than they did because chickens and roosters have babies so for a chicken to be born a rooster must be present.
Can rhode island chickens lay eggs without a rooster?
Yes All chickens will lay eggs without the need for a rooster. All a rooster does is fetilize the eggs, it does not induce the hen to lay an egg, she will do this anyway.
Are chickens and chicks the same?
Hen is the female gender of the species. Chicken is a species Hen the female and rooster the male gender.
How many teeth does a rooster?
A rooster does not have any teeth. Roosters and chickens eat food with their beaks. They do not need to chew the food.
Do you need a rooster when you keep chickens?
Only if you want to hatch chicks. Then, no you don't have to.
Is it a chickens?
No. It is a chicken, a hen, a cockeral/rooster or two chickens.
Are chickens happier with a rooster?
no way
Do you need a rooster to make a egg?
You do not need a rooster for a hen to lay eggs. A well feed, happy hen of appropriate age will lay about one egg a day. If a rooster is around the eggs will be fertilized and you get more chickens, if not you get yummy eggs to eat.
What is the plural for rooster?
The possessive form for the noun rooster is rooster's.
Will eggs hatch if there is no rooster?
If a rooster has not been in contact with the hen, there will be no chicks. The birds and the bees with chickens are much like humans, at least for fertilization. There has to be mating for there to be babies.
Is a rooster needed to make chickens?
yes you do
