A good young active rooster can take care of about 15 to 20 hens per day. This translates into approximately 140 eggs since the rooster deposits a sperm sac which is good for about 7 to 10 days without a remount. The rooster is not aware of this fact however and will go about his duties daily.
The rooster deposits a sperm sac into the hen on completion of the mating. This sperm sac contains enough material to fertilize as many as 10 eggs before a new deposit is needed. The sperm sac travels up the oviduct and attaches to the Infundibulum: This is a funnel-shaped structure at the top of
the hens oviduct that captures a mature ovum shortly after ovulation.
While in the infundibulum, the egg is fertilized only if sperm is
present and before the first layer of albumen is deposited.
each egg can be fertilized by one male whether a chicken or a human. one egg, one sperm.
None. Roosters do not lay eggs, because they are males. They do, however, fertilize hens, who then lay eggs that can be either fertile or non-fertile.
Too many roosters will just result in a lot of fights. Only one rooster is required to fertilize eggs in hundreds of hens.
Just one.
You want your hens are to the age of laying eggs (which is about 6 months), and your hens are under the age of three years (because when they reach this age, they are past their prime, and lay less eggs). Expect from your hens that every day 80% of the number of hens will be your number of eggs. So with this math, if you have 60 hens that are all in their prime, you can expect to get about 1344 eggs in four weeks.
Many people say that a rooster if fertile up until his death. The only thing you can do is periodically test the eggs laid by the hens he has mounted to check for fertility.
Yes, but it is VERY rare. If thousands upon thousands of eggs from hens that have not been with a cockerel are incubated, just a very few will develop an embryo. The poultry industry has been playing with the idea for many years as they would then not need to hatch eggs from laying strains that would be cockerels.
A rooster in the hen house is not going to make the hens lay more eggs. If a farmer is wanting to have more chickens, then a select few hens can be put with a rooster for awhile to produce eggs that will actually hatch into baby chicks.
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Over 100 eggs...............har har har
Warren hens are known for laying large brown eggs. These hens lay an average of 4 eggs each week. After a full two years of laying the amount of eggs that the hen produces will be reduced.
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