Fertile eggs with no cockerel?Fertile eggs with no cockerel?I happened to post on fb about our granddaughter asking us if our hen's eggs would hatch if we left them. I tried to explain, as well as I could to a 6yr old, that as we don't have any male chickens that wasn't possible. Then someone on fb told me that I was wrong and that hens don't need a cockerel to lay fertile eggs. Now I've spent my whole adult life assuming that unless a hen mates with a cockerel her eggs will be unfertile, but this person sounds so convincing I'm starting to second guess myself
Lyn
_______________________________________________ Gold/White Shih Tzu, Green Cheek Conure
Re: Fertile eggs with no cockerel?Don't second guess yourself Mercedes, you most certainly do need a cockerel for your hens to lay fertile eggs. Good look with the explaining to a 6 year old!
Re: Fertile eggs with no cockerel?
No problem can withstand the power of continuous thought.
Re: Fertile eggs with no cockerel?The level of confidence is not directly related to the degree of accuracy of any info on the internet. The things I've read . . .
Good to know that your original info was correct. All you have to do now is explain the facts of life to a 6 year old. Easy peasy. Bea; 19 hens (most of whom I intended to get); 6 bantams (which I never intended to have); old Benji dog and young Toby dog (who I definitely wanted). Three years into country living and loving it.
Re: Fertile eggs with no cockerel?That someone on FB needs to go back to schoool
Bev xx
http://www.freshstartforhens.co.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" Re: Fertile eggs with no cockerel?They may have heard/read people explaining that you don't need a cockerel to get EGGS, and misinterpreted.
Poultry keepers laugh at that question, though I don't think they should since for most birds mating and nest building come before egg-laying. Dance caller. http://mo-dance-caller.blogspot.co.uk/p/what-i-do.html
Sunny Clucker enjoyed Folk music and song in mid-Cheshire Re: Fertile eggs with no cockerel?Phew I'm not as stupid as I was beginning to think I was
Lyn
_______________________________________________ Gold/White Shih Tzu, Green Cheek Conure Re: Fertile eggs with no cockerel?what can I say but
Re: Fertile eggs with no cockerel?My Magpie Hen also thinks otherwise ....she keeps sitting on anything that looks like an egg
If hens sit on Golf balls for 14 days you do get baby ping pong balls ......eventually i read it in the Sunday sport so it must be true .
Re: Fertile eggs with no cockerel?Perhaps it was an immaculate conception!
I am old and wise, because I was young and stupid!.
Re: Fertile eggs with no cockerel?Or an immaculate MISconception
Dance caller. http://mo-dance-caller.blogspot.co.uk/p/what-i-do.html
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