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[rosalyndavies]

Has anyone had any experience of keeping Cockerels? My chicken partner & I are interested in getting a faverolle cockerel? We thought it may be less noisy & sweeter natured than other breeds. They look so fabulous & it would be really interesting to see the behavior & how it interacts with the hens. Can you still eat eggs which have been fertilised & how can you tell?

 

Please excuse my ignorance if these seem obvious questions.

 

Roz

[Lewis]

You can still eat fertile eggs.

The only real way to tell if they are fertileis to incubate them and see, but I think if you crack a frech egg open there is a little ring in the yolk which means it's fertile.

[Cinnamon]

There is unfortunately no such thing as a cockerel that is not noisy.

My Indiana is teeny, a poland bantam, but you can hear him a mile away

 

If you are rural & don't mind bing woken at 4am in the summer, which is when they go off,then its fine,but if you are in a town or built up area,or have nighbours then think very carefully indeed.