How many is enough?
Let me figure per person. If I want 2 eggs on Sunday and bake or cook using eggs using 2 more eggs 2 times a week I will need on average 6 eggs for myself per week.
A good hen will at her best give you 7 eggs a week until she slows down to zero in the fall and winter.
So while the egg machine is working 1 hen per person is usually enough.
None...only Polish roosters lay eggs.
Hens are chickens.Hens are female chickens and lay eggs.Roosters are male chickens and do not lay eggs.So your answer is YES, you need a hen to lay eggs.
Roosters don't get the hen pregnant but fertilise the eggs inside her. Chickens are born not from a Mother hen but come from the eggs she lays. The egg fertilisation process takes place when the rooster "Mounts" the hen.
Claret refers to the color of the hen however some use it to refer to a game hen or fighting bird. Game hens are not prolific egg layers but average 120 eggs per year usually medium size or smaller.
An individual hen will go"broody" and will gather a clutch of eggs to brood. These will not always be her own eggs. She will steal them from other hens by rolling them into the nest she has chosen. Unless the hen is broody she will lay her egg and leave the nest announcing loudly to the rest of the flock what she has accomplished. Hens can go broody whether there is a rooster in the flock or not, so no, not just fertile eggs trigger the brooding instinct.
200
lifetime
None...only Polish roosters lay eggs.
The hen will lay eggs either way, she will lay more if you have a rooster and the eggs will be fetilized
Hens lay eggs, the ones you eat.
All of them lay eggs.
No, by a very large margin
Hens are chickens.Hens are female chickens and lay eggs.Roosters are male chickens and do not lay eggs.So your answer is YES, you need a hen to lay eggs.
an egg a day
About 300 a year
200
Many farms have a cage/hut with straw, which acts as a soft nesting site, where the chickens can lay their eggs.