classic33
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I'd be carful, those chickens are up to summat.
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oldwheels
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Certainly unusual if chickens are laying eggs.
Hens lay eggs which in turn if fertilised and not eaten produce chickens which grow into hens to lay more eggs.
Chickens do not lay eggs.
classic33
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Only the female chickens lay eggs.Certainly unusual if chickens are laying eggs.
Hens lay eggs which in turn if fertilised and not eaten produce chickens which grow into hens to lay more eggs.
Chickens do not lay eggs.
But a certain rooster(cock) offered every egg he laid...
Certainly unusual if chickens are laying eggs.
Hens lay eggs which in turn if fertilised and not eaten produce chickens which grow into hens to lay more eggs.
Chickens do not lay eggs.
Hang on a cotton-pickin'.......
Chickens can be male or female. Male chickens are called cocks, roosters, or cockerels. Female chicken are called hens. We have chickens which are in the category "hen".....but they are still chickens. So, our chickens laid 3 eggs today. The lazy so-and-so's...... Do you know, one of them is so lazy that she won't jump on the perch herself. She waits to be picked up and placed there. If it turns out she's the one not bothering to lay eggs, then she's in a spot of bother.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
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- Armonmy Way
The fire safety people are coming round next week to inspect my intumescent strip. I had to look that up...because I didn't fancy having someone inspect my tumescent strip.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
Females are in fact pullets and do not become hens till about a year old but can lay eggs but cannot remember from what age as it was a long time ago since I studied the subject. I majored in dairy cattle mainly and have a BSc( agric) to show for it.
Academic point scoring perhaps but I prefer to be accurate in nomenclature.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
Lost me there.
We mostly ate the roosters as my grandparents kept hens on their croft and there were often lots of them.
Yum.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
An evening cuppa has been consumed
Illaveago
Guru
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- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
Try sunflower seed hearts. Ours fight over the feeders. We used to just get 5 regularly but now we can get groups of more than a dozen with up to 6 Greenfinches.
Superb. I love a bit of pedantry.
My daughter has a PhD in chickens. Well, the ethology of their wild ancestors........red jungle fowl. She set them behavioural tests, then dissected their brains and did all sorts of genetic testing. Turns out they're far more intelligent than anyone thought. She can do chicken nomenclature, so you two should talk.
In the meantime, our chickens only laid 3 bl**dy eggs today!
FD30 or 60? If 60, they'll be inspecting your doors, vision panels, anmd smoke seals as well. But keep them well away from your tumescence.
classic33
Leg End Member
Will you be doing it with or without a safety net/curtain?
classic33
Leg End Member
When they start being able to lay eggs, they cease to be pullets and become hens.
Learnt that, and much more, from my grandparents.
