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

[texasgal]

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Okay, so you WILL separate your "laying hens" ..

He claims it's not fertilized eggs ... and I challenged him to even be able to tell the difference .. I think he may just have an idea that you have "laying hens" .. and "breeding hens" ..

I think we might need 3 coops ... colored egg layers, white egg layers, breeders.... what do y'all think??

 

[purr]

oh at least 3 maybe more!

 

[The Chicken People]

If youre gonna segregate em ...better do it right...

Looks like three large coops he needs to build or buy!

Might be cheaper to eat fertile eggs!

 

[lauralou]

People have odd ideas about chickens.

I agree with the many other posters who have said that you should embrace this odd idea of his and get a new coop out of it.

By the way, I do have a laying flock, and also breeding pens. This is a brand new development for me. I haven't had an adult rooster on the property in forever. (Still don't, as mine are all youngsters.) So to me the laying flock means that I don't consider those hens to be worthy of being bred for hatching eggs. For whatever reason. Maybe because I don't even want a roo of their breed, or their body type is poor for the breed, or whatever. But I'm not at all against the idea of keeping an extra roo in with them. It will probably happen eventually, just as a practical matter.

 

[speckledhen]

I have my main laying flock, that is led by my Delaware rooster. I have two breeding flocks, both with their own rooster. The only egg in the entire bunch I can count on not being fertile is that of my banty Cochin that the BR rooster leaves alone (she lives with the BR flock). All eggs we eat except hers are fertile.

 

[Mahonri]

All my hens have a rooster with them.

The rooster doesn't like all of them though... so there are some unfertile eggs.

He sticks with his own breed.

 

[Wildsky]

If its fertile eggs he's worried about - tell him that you bought a special INfertile roo, so he could just be the Laying flock protector.

 

[Tala]

My laying hens ARE my flock. Them and their guardian roo.

The "other flock" consists of the youngsters - pullets who aren't laying yet and cockerels who are finishing growing to an edible size. When the pullets are close to point of lay I will make them move into the adult coop, but right now they aren't assertive enough to be confined with the adults.

They all free range together, the only difference is the coop that they sleep in. SO I guess you DO need 2 coops!!!!!!! If not for separating hens, you at least gotta have one for youngsters to live in!!

 

[FarmerChick]

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Seeeeee??? I'm NOT crazy! I dont' know what he's getting at ...

Sometimes I just wish he'd stay out of "my stuff" ..

HA HA HA
that is just funny.....when can a woman get a straight answer from a hubby?

I like "my stuff" left alone also! I hear ya on this one!

 

[magentamomma]

Mine are all together. I want to have fertile eggs, so that if I have a hen go broody, she has something to brood. I have experienced flock losses and had to rebuild by buying new chickens from other people, but if I could get to a place where I could replenish from within I would feel better about the whole setup.