Please explain how chickens keep laying eggs even without a rooster. And are all birds like that?
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You can compare laying eggs to menstruating… I’ll happen with or without a rooster.
But the only reason chickens keep laying eggs is because we remove them every day. Take it from my small chicken coop – if the eggs are left then the hens will stop laying eggs and start incubating them… And they won’t start laying eggs again before the chickens have hatched and are big enough to fend for themselves… Just like a woman usually wont start menstruating until her baby is weaned…
I can also tell you that hens don’t usually lay eggs in winter – and go nuts in spring… I would actually suspect that all birds have those traits.
The industrialized hybrids might not show the same behavior, but that’s because we have ruined them. Normal chickens lay way less eggs in a year, but grow to be 8-10 years old, without ever stopping to lay completely… hybrids have a ray of health and behavioral problems – and just seeing them hurts my animal heart…
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