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Most likely, a farmer will keep hens so he has fresh eggs to eat for breakfast and fried chicken for Sunday dinner. He may also keep lots and lots of hens because he is wants to make a living selling eggs to grocery stores. Then you can buy them and have eggs for breakfast too.
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A farmer has 40 hens all but 4 died how many hens are dead?
36.
A farmer had 20 hens All but 2 died How many hens are still alive?
Two hens are still alive.
What are the responsibilities of a pioneer farmer?
The resposibilties that a pioneer farmer had to do was to milk the cows, set hens, make honey, and raise chickens.
Will hens keep a rooster quiet?
Nope.
How farmers might reduce the amount of energy which hens lose each day by thermal transfer?
to keep the hens warm
Are the eggs in the stores fertilized or unfertilized?
Unfertilised, all large companies keep their laying hens separate from their breeding hens and cockerels.
How many hens can you keep in one cage?
in 1950 you could keep 6o in one cage
What number of hens should a rooster be with?
A good ratio is 1 rooster for every 15 hens. Many farms keep more hens than that and only one rooster, but that keeps him very busy.
What did the farmer do when his chickens wouldn't lay any eggs?
Bought barbeque sauce.
A chicken farmer observed that a hen and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half How many hens does he need to produce 1 dozen eggs in 6 days?
2 hens because 1 hen lays 1 egg a day and 2 hens would lay 12 eggs in 6 days
How long do commercial egg producers keep their hens before replacing them with new hens?
Most egg producers will cull the flock when they reach about 18 months old.
Why do hens sit on their eggs?
It's a maternal instinct - in the wild hens / birds sit on their eggs to keep them warm grow into chicks and hatch. Most eggs now are unfertilised but the hen retains the maternal instinct to sit on them anyway.
