Is this fact or fiction?.....( About Barred Rock hens)

[Wheels]

I read an article from site. It read that barred rock hens can produce eggs without rooster? Click below to read for yourself.



http://humgardens.com/chickens/barred_rock_chickens_breed.htm

 

[Domestic_goddess]

Ummm...is this a joke?

 

[Domestic_goddess]

It's a fact, you don't need a rooster to have eggs from any breed of chicken

 

[valreegrl]

Quote:
Ha!

I get this question a lot....and have even had a few old timers tell me I didn't know what I was talking about.
But....all hens will lay without a rooster

Not just the Barred Rock.

As for the old timers.......I have invited them over to watch

That reply usually doesn't go over well!

 

[ArizonaNessa]

All breeds produce eggs without a rooster but if you want those eggs to turn into chicks then you need a rooster. There is no chicken on the planet that will lay an egg and it turn into a chick all by itself. It must be fertilized. You know I have people tell me all the time that chickens won't lay eggs without a rooster. Some of those conversations get quite heated mainly because they won't listen

 

[teach1rusl]

Many of us get many eggs daily from many different chicken breeds without owning or having access to a rooster...lol...it's a fact. Seriously, you only need a rooster to fertilize eggs so that chicks will hatch. Eggs are just fine unfertilized.

 

[wvgal61]

I'm laughing with you not at you! I didn't know this until my Grandpa told me

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Nobody is born knowing this stuff. We were all this green once. Be nice to them so they'll stick around and become a part of the community.

.....Alan.

 

[ArizonaNessa]

I agree Alan. I can remember when I didn't even know how to hold a chicken or what they ate or anything. I hope my comment wasn't too harsh. It wasn't meant in a mean way.

 

[teach1rusl]

Yeah Wheels...we've all learned a LOT from the site. There was a GREAT/HILARIOUS posting a few weeks ago where a lot of folks learned that roosters don't have a "thing" to mate with. There were folks on here who admitted that they'd raised chickens for years assuming that roosters' sexual anatomy was similar to dogs/cats. I remember wondering whether chickens "pooped" eggs...lol...never thinking about the digestive system vs. the reproductive system...lol.