Nothing taste better than farm fresh eggs. Just don’t get a rooster. Those idiots start to crow BEFORE the sun comes up....
Cock-a-doodle-doo is rooster for “feed me!” Get an automatic timed feeder and your rooster house will reward you with blissful silence at dawn.
You need a rooster to get eggs from a hen...
****Just don’t get a rooster. Those idiots start to crow BEFORE the sun comes up....****
And contrary to popular citified belief, you DO NOT need a rooster to get eggs.
You ONLY need a rooster for fertile eggs for hatching.
Commercial laying facilities DO NOT have roosters among their hens.
I got about 15 layers with two roosters.
No roosters; that’s what I understand from reading about this urban movement concerning chickens.
I read Hobby Farmer magazine. Good information mostly, but from some of the “sustainable” editorials on the last page, no doubt some of the magazines employees are flaming self-styled Progressives who’ve never shoveled genuine ‘hot’ manure other than the worthless literary type ;-]