Now I (grew up on around farms) was always under the belief that chickens wouldn't lay eggs if there wasn't a cockeral presant. A quick phone call to my ex farming old man turns up the answer "er I'm not sure" so wtf did I as a child have to put up with a fookin cockeral waking me up in the mornings as we had no desire to breed simply to eat the eggs.
So I know there is farming types out there so could you please enlighten us as to who is right.
Me (i always am) who thinks they need to be there before the chicken will lay and not simply to fertilise.
Or city dweling PK who still thinks milk comes straight from trees