FIRST EGG!!! WHO DONE IT????

[chickenlover89]

So is it acceptable to go ahead and give all my 16-17 week old girls oyster shell? That was my plan until they finish this bag of feed, at which point I'll put them on a layer feed.

yes

 

[Den in Penn]

so if there is already one or two roosters in the flock, roosters can "turn themselves into hens" and they will crow, but lay eggs also...(that isn't very common though, but i have seen it twice before)

Say what?? Never heard of that never saw and documented case. My understanding of chicken physiology would make that impossible. Hens can sometimes crow, but roosters never will lay an egg.

 

[chickenlover89]

Say what?? Never heard of that never saw and documented case. My understanding of chicken physiology would make that impossible. Hens can sometimes crow, but roosters never will lay an egg.

that's what i heard, the roosters will kind of turn themselves into a hen...it happened at my local farm (not the egg though, im not sure about that) but the rooster doesn't mount, has some characteristics of a hen and some of a rooster, and we are pretty sure it is a rooster, because of the rooster feathering, and the comb (we knew from the beginning it was a rooster...)

 

[chickenlover89]

maybe it was a hen that felt dominant and the hen started to crow...i dont know, but im pretty sure they said the rooster turned into a hen.

 

[Den in Penn]

Now a hen turning into a rooster I have read about. When the ovary gets damaged the hen doesn't produce estrogen and reverts to the male body pattern. I don't think they are fertile.