I guess this is a rooster?

[toro168]

Hi all,

My barred rock is 5 weeks old and look at the comb on this thing. I wanted to get some confirmation from the knowledgeable members from this forum, I am guessing this is a roo? I don't really want to make him dinner but I don't want him to fertilize the eggs either. What would the chicken farmer do?

 

[sweetmsmisty98]

looks like a cockerel

 

[poultrylubber]

I would put an ad on craigslist for him. I see free roosters all the time on there. Hope it all works out

 

[questions543]

Why dont you want fertilized eggs? But yea its a rooster... sorry

 

[toro168]

Why dont you want fertilized eggs? But yea its a rooster... sorry

i probably shouldn't say I don't want fertilized eggs...just that my wife get gross out pretty easily, so if she sees a small blood spot she will not want to eat the egg.

thanks for the confirmation though

 

[Lots A Cluckin]

blood spots or meat spots are not caused by the rooster...I have hens without roosters and they still get those spots...it is just intestinal lining they some times gets in the eggs when the shell is forming inside the hens body...i usually have at least 1-2 eggs per dozen that have a blood or meat spot...it is not bad for anyone to eat but if it does gross anyone out it can easily be removed from the yolk....the reason there are no blood or meat spots in store eggs is because in the factory they run the eggs over a very bright light and check for them and if they see them in the eggs and if they see any they get tossed or graded as grade B eggs and go to a bread factory.

 

[RockerHen]

blood spots or meat spots are not caused by the rooster...I have hens without roosters and they still get those spots...it is just intestinal lining they some times gets in the eggs when the shell is forming inside the hens body...i usually have at least 1-2 eggs per dozen that have a blood or meat spot...it is not bad for anyone to eat but if it does gross anyone out it can easily be removed from the yolk....the reason there are no blood or meat spots in store eggs is because in the factory they run the eggs over a very bright light and check for them and if they see them in the eggs and if they see any they get tossed or graded as grade B eggs and go to a bread factory.

X2 the only difference in a fertilized vs nonfertilized egg is a slight difference in the shape of the little white spot that's on the yolk. This is a fertile egg, for example. It has a more even, circular shape rather than looking jagged spot that nonfertilized eggs have.