HELP!!

[Chickykim]

A poster on here mentioned one time that they were reintroducing a sibling to a flock,
just wondering how long chickens remeber each other and the solutions to this dilemma....

I have 14 week old brother and sister that I raised from a day old..
its illegal where I am to have a rooster and I also would HATE to kill or eat a fertile egg!!
Heeeelp
☝ i thought hens could eject sperm, and that she wouldn't want insest chicks .....
soooooo now that I just read that its not bad 4 those birds to interbreed im dreading the day I abort a new life for the sake of breakfast!!! But...
I also read that castrating a rooster is more horrific than re homing but these 2 are dead close and im scared my flower would mourn her Bob
........ (so bad as her not even produce any breakfast at all.......)

I dont even know if even adopting a hen before or after I swap the Bob...
{{I planned on swapping him for a her so she's not lonely and gets use to another female b4 handing bob over the the farm... but now I dunno if I should just threaten them with my rainbow flag and insist that he identifies as a Hen if ever challenged with the counsil ... and never eat my eggs that I raised the poor chickens for in the 1st place!!
}}I never even WANTED to raise babies or this breed lmao with the contravirus drama i got what I was given and thrived but now......{{

='(

 

[featheredplanets]

Why can’t you rehome him? If it’s illegal for you to have roosters them you need to rehome him otherwise local councils will take action, so I wouldn’t worry about eating fertile eggs. Chickens have no perception of relation, they don’t understand inbreeding. Fertile eggs aren’t alive and sentient the same way actual developed animals are. Cracking one open isn’t killing anything, you’re just stopping the potential for a chick. Fertile eggs don’t taste different either. Caponising will turn him hen like, I’ve heard it’s not common practice among vets, so it’s something you might have to do yourself.

Find him a nice farm where he can be the rooster he’s supposed to be and find some more hens for your hen. She’ll be fine once she has other chicken company and it’s not fair on the roo to try to keep him if you’re not allowed, he’ll be much happier somewhere he can crow his heart out.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

A poster on here mentioned one time that they were reintroducing a sibling to a flock,
just wondering how long chickens remeber each other and the solutions to this dilemma....

I have 14 week old brother and sister that I raised from a day old..
its illegal where I am to have a rooster and I also would HATE to kill or eat a fertile egg!!
Heeeelp
☝ i thought hens could eject sperm, and that she wouldn't want insest chicks .....
soooooo now that I just read that its not bad 4 those birds to interbreed im dreading the day I abort a new life for the sake of breakfast!!! But...
I also read that castrating a rooster is more horrific than re homing but these 2 are dead close and im scared my flower would mourn her Bob
........ (so bad as her not even produce any breakfast at all.......)

I dont even know if even adopting a hen before or after I swap the Bob...
{{I planned on swapping him for a her so she's not lonely and gets use to another female b4 handing bob over the the farm... but now I dunno if I should just threaten them with my rainbow flag and insist that he identifies as a Hen if ever challenged with the counsil ... and never eat my eggs that I raised the poor chickens for in the 1st place!!
}}I never even WANTED to raise babies or this breed lmao with the contravirus drama i got what I was given and thrived but now......{{

='(

Chickens can recognize up to 100 different flock members. They can remember them for perhaps months or longer. However, just because they remember them doesn't mean they want them back in the flock. Interlopers, strangers and even returning flock members will likely be driven off. Outsiders are looked on as a threat to the well being of the flock. They will compete for food and water and possibly bring disease.

But . Where did you get the idea that eating a fertile egg was akin to aborting a new life? I hope you realize that people have been eating eggs for thousands of years and through most of that time - until the advent of commercial agriculture and caged hens, they were always likely fertile. That's likely in the neighborhood of quadrillions of eggs.
There is no life until a fertile egg has been incubated - kept at a temperature in the high 90s for a few days.
All of my eggs have been fertile for well over 10 years. The eggs I don't select for incubation, I and my family eat. There is no life in there, there is just a fertilized blastoderm that won't grow till it is brought up to temperature.

 

[rosemarythyme]

If roosters are illegal where you live, unless you're willing to move, there's a good chance you won't be able to keep him regardless of how you feel.

As far as fertile eggs, if you've ever eaten an egg from a grocery store, from a restaurant, or products with eggs in it, then you've already eaten fertile eggs. You can't tell the difference when you eat them.