Getting a chicken pregnant?

[schmalex]

Not quite as it seems!

We have some chickens (no rooster). For the sake of argument, each chicken lays 1 egg every day

Now, if we had a rooster, who then has a bit of jiggy jiggy with a hen, an egg will plop out in the next day or so all fertilized.

What happens then, though? Does the hen then go straight back off & lay a bunch of regular eggs, or does she lay a number of fertilized eggs, or does she stop laying completely during the gestation period, or what?

[schmalex]

MBHappyBunny said:

Pregnant Chickens FFS!

Here's some basic advice for you:-

1) Give the chickens back to the person who sold them to you.
2) Read a book about how to look after your chickens (an old fashioned but reliable method of learning)
3) When you have the required knowledge and equipment to responsibly look after the chickens and any subsequent chicks then get some more.

Honestly, some people.........

Thanks for the advice, chap

You'll be delighted to hear we are getting 6 Alpaca's in a few weeks.

Hopefully they'll last longer than the Geese last year......

[schmalex]

Ayahuasca said:

A hen's egg, it has a bit of girth on it doesn't it?

Well, yes it does. Which leads me to another chicken related topic that I've been discussing with my son recently.

Do they have fannies?

I assume they do, as I guess they wouldn't be designed for it to come out of their bum.

[schmalex]

Not directly. He's 6. That would be ridiculous & pretty irresponsible.

Edited by schmalex on Friday 23 April 20:42

[schmalex]

missdiane said:

Besides, anyone have a cock we can borrow, one of our hens isn't laying eggs yet, what better way to get her started?

Bagpipe her. That's what we did - it worked a treat

[schmalex]

Mazda Baiter said:

schmalex said:

MBHappyBunny said:

Pregnant Chickens FFS!

Here's some basic advice for you:-

1) Give the chickens back to the person who sold them to you.
2) Read a book about how to look after your chickens (an old fashioned but reliable method of learning)
3) When you have the required knowledge and equipment to responsibly look after the chickens and any subsequent chicks then get some more.

Honestly, some people.........

Thanks for the advice, chap

You'll be delighted to hear we are getting 6 Alpaca's in a few weeks.

Hopefully they'll last longer than the Geese last year......

Have you tried vaseline and a pencil?

Spot's all chopped & sorted now. However, my wife decided it'd be a good idea to get her a friend, so Sparkle arrived a week or so ago. She's 4 months old, so I've got the whole worm dance, pencil shagging thing to go through again.

Plus I sound like a right bender shouting "SPOT, SPAAAARKLE" outside the front door in a high pitched voice every night.

Edited by schmalex on Saturday 24th April 18:50

[schmalex]

IMO, no.

That was a cat. It was a solution put forward on here on my requesr for assistance in stopping an un spayed kitten getting the horn. The general consensus was I should shag it with a pencil.