Strange!!! Did my rooster lay this egg?

[CoachAlangley]

A friend of ours gave us a chicken which they thought was a rooster because it started crowing. I brought him home and I at the time only had one other chicken. He crowed and acted like a ROOSTER. Then I got some more babies and in those babies I had a few roosters. I then found a spot in my yard that had so many eggs I couldn't believe it, how did one chicken lay this many eggs. Time went by, and the "rooster" was no longer crowing. It was back to acting like a chicken. This made me realize that one chicken didn't lay all of those mysterious eggs. That rooster was actually a big chicken.

As time went on, she again started acting like a rooster ..... crowing, jumping on the ladies, ect. I again got new babies, with a couple new roosters and now she is acting like a chicken again. So all along she has never been a rooster, and has always been laying eggs.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

A friend of ours gave us a chicken which they thought was a rooster because it started crowing. I brought him home and I at the time only had one other chicken. He crowed and acted like a ROOSTER. Then I got some more babies and in those babies I had a few roosters. I then found a spot in my yard that had so many eggs I couldn't believe it, how did one chicken lay this many eggs. Time went by, and the "rooster" was no longer crowing. It was back to acting like a chicken. This made me realize that one chicken didn't lay all of those mysterious eggs. That rooster was actually a big chicken.

As time went on, she again started acting like a rooster ..... crowing, jumping on the ladies, ect. I again got new babies, with a couple new roosters and now she is acting like a chicken again. So all along she has never been a rooster, and has always been laying eggs.

Are you trying to say the same bird was laying and fertilizing eggs?

 

[CoachAlangley]

Are you trying to say the same bird was laying and fertilizing eggs?

She was confused and going through the action of fertilizing eggs. She is a bitchy ol bird who is bossy and owns the yard..... she crows sometimes its very confusing

 

[JacinLarkwell]

She was confused and going through the action of fertilizing eggs. She is a bitchy ol bird who is bossy and owns the yard..... she crows sometimes its very confusing

They cannot do both. They can either lay or fertilize. They can't switch back and forth

 

[CoachAlangley]

They cannot do both. They can either lay or fertilize. They can't switch back and forth

I never said she fertilized, i said she went through the motions.... she acts like she is a rooster but she obviously is not a rooster. She is a big chicken that acted like a rooster

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I never said she fertilized, i said she went through the motions.... she acts like she is a rooster but she obviously is not a rooster. She is a big chicken that acted like a rooster

Oh, okay, my bad. You kept mentioning she would mount hens and then you would hatch babies, and hadn't mentioned you had a rooster other than her so I thought you meant she was fertilizing them

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

A friend of ours gave us a chicken which they thought was a rooster because it started crowing. I brought him home and I at the time only had one other chicken. He crowed and acted like a ROOSTER. Then I got some more babies and in those babies I had a few roosters. I then found a spot in my yard that had so many eggs I couldn't believe it, how did one chicken lay this many eggs. Time went by, and the "rooster" was no longer crowing. It was back to acting like a chicken. This made me realize that one chicken didn't lay all of those mysterious eggs. That rooster was actually a big chicken.

As time went on, she again started acting like a rooster ..... crowing, jumping on the ladies, ect. I again got new babies, with a couple new roosters and now she is acting like a chicken again. So all along she has never been a rooster, and has always been laying eggs.

Do you have a picture of this hen? I was wondering how “rooster-like” she looks.

 

[MsSueT]

Maybe the rooster dragged it out from where a hen laid it.

 

[MsSueT]

My guess is the rooster dragged it out after a hen laid it.

 

[thepick4uchicks]

I can only add this. When my hens first started to lay which is just recently because they will not be a full 12 months old until May 18th. There are nine of them. My last one just started to lay this past week actually but I think she was some what slowed down because of heat sickness from the terrible heat we had in MS this past summer. I almost lost her but she pulled through. Her comb is much smaller than her sisters. Anyway I found at least five of these eggs on our poop boards. None in the egg boxes or any other locations so that was easy cleanup but definitely alarmed me for a second. After the first ones I figured out that it was normal for some during the early process for them so I didn’t worry about it too much.