Is it must to a hen to have a mating for laying eggs?

Question

A discussion came in our office group friends whether mating with a male is necessary for a hen to lay eggs. There comes two different openions that if that laid eggs are further to produce a chick then only the mating with a male is must whereas in the case of broiler chickens which are laying eggs in large need not to have a pair for that purpose. When ther is no hatching and further production of chicks, pair is not at all needed to lay eggs and it is a routine process in the life cycle of a chicken to lay eggs. But, visually there is no difference between the broiler eggs and in the country eggs when we break both we can see the yellow embryo in both the cases. There comes the doubt that will the broiler eggs give chicks on hatching? Any Vetenary Doctors can explain this.

Answer 1

There does not have to be a rooster anywhere near the hens for them to start laying. They do this without needing a male. The eggs, however, are infertile and will not hatch. If a rooster has access to the hens, the eggs are fertile and, if incubated, will hatch. There is no difference in appearance or flavour between fertile and infertile eggs.

Answer 2

There has to be a rooster in the pen with the hens to get eggs. Broiler chickens are just the size of the chicken the company decides would be best to broil. There is no difference in the eggs. The yellow is the yolk not the embryo. The embryo is in the white of the egg next to the yolk.

Answer 3

Hens can lay eggs without a mate. Those are the eggs you find mostly in grocery stores, etc. From the chickens they have on farms for this primary reason. When they mate, the eggs can be eaten if collected early, but those eggs produce other baby chicks.

Answer 4

A hen can lay eggs without mateing but if the embryo was not fertilized by a rooster, it will not hatch.

Answer 5

the hen will lay egg with out a rooster