Do you separate your "laying hens" from your "flock?

texasgal

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What I mean is .. do you keep the hens you collect eggs from everyday separate from the hens that you let run with a rooster?

My DH told me last nite that he would be excited when I was able to separate my laying hens from "the rest" .. I asked him why I would do that .. and he looked at me like I was from mars.

"You don't want your rooster being able to get to ALL your chickens do you?"

I asked him if he had a problem with fertilized eggs? Or if he thought that hens with a rooster would go broody and sit on all their eggs .. or what?
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I couldn't get a straight answer from him .. other than mumbling something about "laying hens" should be kept separate...

Any thoughts??

I think that he thinks when they breed, they will automatically go broody ...
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Seeeeee??? I'm NOT crazy! I dont' know what he's getting at ...
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Sometimes I just wish he'd stay out of "my stuff" ..
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Seeeeee??? I'm NOT crazy! I dont' know what he's getting at ...
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Sometimes I just wish he'd stay out of "my stuff" ..
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May be his upbringing, I know there are some that will claim you cant eat fertilized eggs, and some that will claim you cant get eggs without a rooster, Either way someone is wrong. Tell him he will have to build you another coop, or live with having the roo with the hens. And a LAYING HEN COOP has to be BIG.
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Seeeeee??? I'm NOT crazy! I dont' know what he's getting at ...
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Sometimes I just wish he'd stay out of "my stuff" ..
barnie.gif


May be his upbringing, I know there are some that will claim you cant eat fertilized eggs, and some that will claim you cant get eggs without a rooster, Either way someone is wrong. Tell him he will have to build you another coop, or live with having the roo with the hens. And a LAYING HEN COOP has to be BIG.
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MASSIVE even...
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Me too.
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ETA: My roo's favorite girl wears a saddle. If anyone wants unfertilized eggs, they could always find the egg from my one hen that refuses to let the roo touch her and as a result never lays a fertile egg.
 
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He probably has the same aversion to eating fertile eggs as I do. No real basis on why you shouldn't, but, some people simply can't get their minds over eating fertile eggs for whatever reason. I plan to keep my "breakfast" hens seperate from my breeding hens and roos.
 
It depends where I am at with the flock. IF I just had bought some hatching eggs from a very desirable breeder, I will collect eggs from hens that usually I would not, anyway just to have the genetic diversity. I bought most of my Marans as hatching eggs, so I am much more likely to just weed out those pullets that are smaller. I have 8 foot by 8 foot pens that I use for breeding. Then I put those bred hens in a separate coop to collect their eggs only for hatching.
 

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