How to make my chicken stop laying egg?

[Coralietg]

If you hatched every egg your chicken laid, you would be overrun with chickens.

Collect eggs daily, and you don't have to worry about any development. There isn't a chick to kill, by eating a fertilised egg. The potential is just there, if incubation occurs. I've left fertilised eggs out on the side for many days before, and there was no development at all when they were cracked.

I thought I had read about ways to stop hens laying, but it was a last resort for hens whose egg laying was so dysfunctional it was going to kill them. Your healthy chicken wants to lay eggs, doesn't seem to have any interest in hatching, so collect eggs daily to discourage other predators from tracking the eggs down.

 

[Luckybaby]

If you want birds as pets that do not lay eggs as frequently as chickens do, why not get a type of parrot? Then you wouldn't have to figure out what to do with the eggs.

I already own a Blue-fronted amazon and a lovebird since 2008 and 2005 respectively. I only started to own a chicken on this island since about 1-3/4 years ago.

 

[AmyPaperlady]

It seems to me that my hens only lay egg if they make love with my roosters.

Nope, completely wrong. Chickens are not like cats--ovulation isn't stimulated by intercourse (since there's no penetration, I don't even see how there could be...). Like humans, ovulation occurs whether there are any males about or not (much more often with chickens, of course). Otherwise, I wouldn't be getting 4-5 eggs a day with my 5 hens--I don't have any roosters, because I'm not allowed to have any on my property.

 

[Luckybaby]

Luckybaby, that helps confirm my reading.

It's good to know you don't like killing and from what I've read none here do including me but often dying helps the living (food). Regrettably even the most humane of us have oopsed a butcher.

On that note; many farmers out there sell directly to the consumer and can provide a healthier alternative to store bought foods. Best in your adventures and pets.

I think plant foods can provide most nutrients and vitamins that a human needs. Thus it is not necessary to kill something to get what a person needs. Whatever a person lacks from eating only plant foods can be made up by eating natural or synthetic vitamins. If I am not mistaken there is a way to obtain those without killing animals.

 

[enola]

I know how you can have chickens as pets and not get a single egg !

 

[Luckybaby]

Nope, completely wrong. Chickens are not like cats--ovulation isn't stimulated by intercourse (since there's no penetration, I don't even see how there could be...). Like humans, ovulation occurs whether there are any males about or not (much more often with chickens, of course). Otherwise, I wouldn't be getting 4-5 eggs a day with my 5 hens--I don't have any roosters, because I'm not allowed to have any on my property.

Maybe the best way to solve my problem is to seperate my hen and rooster. However, I still won't eat my chickens fertilized egg.

 

[keesmom]

The best way to solve your problem is to rehome your rooster. Or if you have decided to become a vegan maybe you want to rehome your hen(s) also.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Maybe the best way to solve my problem is to seperate my hen and rooster. However, I still won't eat my chickens fertilized egg.

If you separate the rooster from the hen the eggs won't be fertilized

 

[enola]

Get rid of all your hens, keep the roosters, ta da, no more eggs. Problem solved!!!

 

[ChickenCurt]

Very true Luckybaby, but, vegetable only diet isn't for everyone (though Daniel ate only pulse) and many like old fashion meat hence humane and healthy methods of obtaining that.

Enola

on the rooster substitute.