Will chickens lay eggs if there’s no rooster around? Just askin’.
If a chicken wants to call himself a rooster, who am I to question?
Yes.
Yes.
Yes. If you want it fertilized to make a chick, you’ll need a rooster.
We have designer humans so why not take that technology to livestock. Of course, we’ll be paying more for it.
This won’t affect broader hens as without a male rooster around they lay unfertile eggs which are male and female but they never get past the yoke stage so it matters not and those eggs meant for consumption will remain unsexed there is no need to. Only breeder chickens who have a rooster for reproduction need the eggs sexed.
Yes chickens will get broody and lay without a rooster around just like human females have periods with or without a man in the house. Chickens produce an ova every day to two days and that becomes an egg regardless of if it is joined with male chicken sperm.
Yes the will still lay eggs, but they will be unfertilized.