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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.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 12y agoYes, you will need a rooster to fertilize the hens and have chicks.
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Does a rooster have to get it on to make the egg?
no
Do chickens need a rooster to have babies?
Yes. The rooster fertilizes the egg.
Does a chicken need a rooster to fertilize each and every egg or does the chicken only need the rooster to lay eggs?
a chicken need a rooster to fertilize it's sex cell whatever it is A chicken can lay an egg without a rooster but the egg can never be hatched. If the egg is fertilized then the egg is able to hatch.
Do you need a rooster to have a chick?
yes so the egg can get fertilized and a chick can develop (:
When was The Egg-Cited Rooster created?
The Egg-Cited Rooster was created on 1952-10-04.
Can a hen's egg be firtilized artificially - that is by taking some special diet?
No. You need a rooster for that.
Will an egg laid without a rooster present develop into a chick?
If a hen is in with NO rooster, and lays an egg, then that egg is infertile and cannot hatch.
Is rooster laying egg?
Do you mean, can a rooster lay an egg? The answer is no. Only hens can lay an egg. Do you mean, will a rooster incubate an egg till it hatches? The answer is no, only hens incubate the eggs. Occasionally a rooster that doesn't know any better will sleep in the nestbox but he is not there to incubate and could actually break and eat the egg instead. Do you mean, will a rooster chick hatch out of an egg? Yes, both roosters and hens come from eggs.
What is the highest egg producing rooster?
Roosters do not produce eggs. Hens do. So there is no highest egg producing rooster.
How do chickens make unfertalized eggs?
A chicken can make an unfertilized egg by keeping the hens separate from the roosters. In commercial egg houses, there are only hens. The rooster is the one that fertilizes the egg.
What is the difference between a fertile egg and a live egg?
There is nothing different if you are talking about a live egg as there is a chick growing in side of it. a fertile egg is when the daddy rooster make the egg fertile
Why can hens lay eggs without a rooster?
Because a hens egg is like the egg your ovaries release...the hen laying the egg is like the ovary releasing the egg into your uterus. The only way the egg can mature is if it is fertilized by a rooster, as the only way you can get pregnant is if it is fertilized by male sperm. Make sense?
