ETA: If you don't plan on hatching any eggs, then you really don't need any roosters. If your hens will be strictly for eggs, then I wouldn't worry about getting any roosters. Just my 2 cents worth.
Why? How are the hens going to produce eggs if there are no roosters?
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Yes, I will be keeping them for eggs. I see people having battery-caged eggs and this literally worries me! cage-free eggs are way way better than the battery-caged ones. That's the reason I plan to sell these eggs in local markets. cage-free eggs aren't available here in South-Asian...
So that means I should divide them up into flocks of 11 chickens? each flock having 10 hens and 1 rooster? I've observed that when roosters grow up, one of them is like the chief of the whole tribe and rest of them aren't even allowed to stand by the girls, let alone mating! Suggestions?
What should be the rooster to hen ratio? how many hens can a rooster fertilize in one day? i plan to have 200 hens. how many roosters should i have for 200 girls?
Hi all! I had been looking for some good website with all the details about keeping and taking care of chickens and found this one on the google's first search page Four years back I bought around 10 chicken which grew into some real nice, egglaying hens and roosters. All of them died last year...