Oh yes I meant to share that. You can take the eggs and make sure they don't brood on the eggs. That's hard too cuz it seems to mean alot to the hens to sit and brood. Can be done tho.
I recommend no rooster because you will have baby roosters born and have to face the gut wrenching experience of watching 1-them gang rape your hens 2- the young alpha rooster bully, run off the property, and eventually mortally wound the other boys (my experience: fractured pelvis, broken neck...