2007-07-28 17:33:06 · 7 answers · asked by abilash s 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Yes,the hens will lay eggs even without the cocks,just feed them well to have more eggs. However if you want fertile eggs for hatching, there must be a rooster to mate with the hens.
2007-07-28 17:59:13 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ lani s 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. They sure can. Cocks/Roosters are only necessary for reproduction; to fertilize the egg so that a chicken will grow inside the egg. If you think about hens and their egg laying in relation to humans... simply an egg is the equivalent to a period (I'm assuming you would be familiar with this term). Although this may seem like a weird example of similarity for explanation. It's really quite appropriate. But simply it's like a daily period... just a routine thing which requires a male only to reproduce.
Hens will lay eggs once they are old enough. Though they do tend to stop laying eggs when they moult. Other than the absence of eggs being laid you will know if the hens are moulting because (generally speaking) they should loose quite a lot of their feathers. From what I've heard, they stop laying through this period as they have to use their energy to replace the feathers. Once they finish moulting, egg production continues.
As hens get older they tend to stop laying or lay less frequently. Again this can be explained in relation to periods.
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2007-07-29 01:05:40 · answer #2 · answered by Bindy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, just as humans produce eggs regularly so do chickens. If there has been no rooster or ****, then they are not fertilized and will not develop chicks. The eggs that you buy in the store are this kind of egg. Interesting though is that if a hen has been around a rooster, she is able to store the sperm for quite a while to keep fertilizing her eggs.
2007-07-29 09:29:08 · answer #3 · answered by Ren E 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sperm of the rooster fertilises in the hen till a protein-calcium layer is formed on the egg whih matures slowly in the hen's womb. Without the cocks, hens can lay eggs but as a result, the eggs weaker. A rooster mate has to be there even if the eggs produced are without the rooster is vegetative (without the rooster).
2007-07-29 01:06:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The eggs you buy in a supermarket are unfertilised and were laid by hens which have never seen a rooster. Many people keep chickens for eggs but do not keep a rooster as it is unnecessary and often forbidden by local by-laws.
There is no difference in flavour, appearance or nutrition between fertilised and unfertilised eggs as long as the hen has not started to incubate the eggs.
2007-07-29 02:36:01 · answer #5 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2014-12-02 05:12:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-07-29 02:29:02 · answer #7 · answered by praveen r 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋