Rooster laying eggs

[NatJ]

If it's laying eggs it's no longer a pullet, but a hen.

She's still a pullet until she turns one year old.

Sources include:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pullet
"a hen of the domestic chicken less than a year old"

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/pullet
"a female chicken that is less than a year old"

This is also consistent with a number of chicken-raising books I have read over the years, and frequent usage on the internet.

I believe it also applies when showing chickens, but I am not positive of that.

 

[NatJ]

You can incubate refrigerated eggs? How long can they be stored like this . . . I'm very intrigued by this information . . .

If you're storing eggs you want to hatch, they have to avoid freezing, and they cannot be kept at incubation temperature. Between those extremes, some temperatures are better than others ("better" being measured by how many of them hatch, and how long the eggs can be stored and still have a reasonable number hatch.)

Regrigerators may be a bit cooler than ideal, or maybe not, depending on the exact refrigerator and what temperature it is. Depending on what storage options are available, sometimes the refrigerator is better than the other choices.

Trying to hatch refrigerated eggs can happen by deliberate planning (the person collected eggs for hatching and put them in the fridge), or it can happen because something else goes wrong (the rooster or the whole flock got killed by a predator, so the person pulls eggs from the fridge to try to hatch replacements.)

Here are two articles that talk a bit about storage & development temperatures for eggs:
https://www.brinsea.com/t-eggstorage.aspx
https://www.brinsea.com/t-PowerOff.aspx?

For how long they can be stored, up to a week is usually fine for any storage temperature that is above freezing and below about 80 degrees. Some eggs and some temperatures can go longer than that.

 

[AllynTal]

If it's laying eggs it's no longer a pullet, but a hen.

@NatJ is correct. Whether she is laying or not doesn't matter. A female chicken less than a year old is a pullet. A male chicken less than a year old is a cockerel.

 

[Zenmonkey]

A male chicken less than a year old is a cockerel.

And a male chicken more than a year old is soup. Possibly a rooster, more likely soup.

 

[redinator]

She's still a pullet until she turns one year old.

Sources include:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pullet
"a hen of the domestic chicken less than a year old"

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/pullet
"a female chicken that is less than a year old"

This is also consistent with a number of chicken-raising books I have read over the years, and frequent usage on the internet.

I believe it also applies when showing chickens, but I am not positive of that.

And now I know . . . I was going off of what I was initially told when I asked what pullet and cockerel meant when I first joined.

 

[NatJ]

And now I know . . . I was going off of what I was initially told when I asked what pullet and cockerel meant when I first joined.

I suspected it was something like that, which is why I included a few sources for the information, rather than expecting you to just trust the word of some random person on the internet (disagreeing with some other random person on the internet.)

 

[Love Donkeys]

Hermaphrodite wouldn't lay eggs. Only 100% female chickens do.

Had a 4 y/o Speckled Sussex hen decide to become a rooster after her molt. She stopped laying, started strutting around, crowing and trying to breed the other hens. We gave the bird away because "she/he" was causing pandemonium in the coop

 

[FrostRanger]

Had a 4 y/o Speckled Sussex hen decide to become a rooster after her molt. She stopped laying, started strutting around, crowing and trying to breed the other hens. We gave the bird away because "she/he" was causing pandemonium in the coop

Likely she has some reproductive issue going on that caused her ovary to be damaged. Hens with a damaged ovary will take on the appearance and behavior of a rooster, despite this they are still hens and cannot fertilize eggs

 

[Love Donkeys]

Some hens actually do crow.

LoL! One of our hens sound like an Australian Kookaburra bird after she lays her egg.

 

[Sinadrea]

So I have a Polish chicken. I bought about 7 or 8 months ago and it is a rooster and it started laying eggs todayView attachment 4088496View attachment 4088498

Would have been more appropriate if you posted this on April 1st. Pretty girl, I wanted to get a golden one this year but didn't.