What is it with Chickens ?

[EternalOptimist]

Only if you want chicks. Do women stop menstruating when they don't have a man around? Eggs are just chicken 'time of the months'

So when I am eating my boiled egg tomorrow, I actually eating a


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[TheBigYinJames]

So when I am eating my boiled egg tomorrow, I actually eating a
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It's amazing how many people don't realise this fact, and think the eggs have to be fertilised to be laid.

[expat]

Yeah, me parents had one for about a year then built a bigger one so they could get more chicken. Cockerel was a pain in the arse though and kept attacking me mum, so I shot it with a 12bore.

HTH

Had one cock that thought he was cock-of-the-walk, and when I came into his hut he ran at me and pecked me hard on the boot. A second contact between him and my boot convinced him once and for all that the pecking order wan't what he had hoped after all. OTOH when a hen with chicks charged, I gave way. I knew that she meant it.

You do want a certain aggression in a cock, he may be a prat but he'll defend his girls. If a fox gets into the henhut, the feathers that you see all over the place are cock feathers. He goes in first.

[expat]

It's amazing how many people don't realise this fact, and think the eggs have to be fertilised to be laid.

In fact just because a cock has mounted a hen doesn't mean that they are fertilised anyway. He gets to say whether his seed is going in that hole, but she gets to decide whether it goes anywhere near an egg. A hen can hold it in for quite a while before deciding.