ever considered?

[WDIK]

what would happen if a chicken was allowed to rear its eggs and chicks naturally@?

 

[EddieM]

You'd get a mixture of hens and cockrels eventually? Assuming the eggs had been fertilised.

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

organic chicken balti
and no scrambled eggs for breakie

 

[Nige F]

you`d know why the chicken crossed the road

 

[wotan]

Chickens are pretty dim, if after years of having the eggs taken off them, would they sit on the eggs to incubate them, if left to their own devices?

 

[WDIK]

chicken nest's?

 

[EddieM]

Chickens are pretty dim, if after years of having the eggs taken off them, would they sit on the eggs to incubate them, if left to their own devices?

years of but yes, you often use a ceramic egg for a broody chicken to incubate.

Sadly after a layer had stopped laying they are pretty much inedible. Make quite good pet food / compost though.

 

[Norcon]

Chickens are pretty dim,

Know a guy who walks into a house every morning with 5000 chickens and one chicken he calls by name flies up and lands on his shoulder.

if after years of having the eggs taken off them, would they sit on the eggs to incubate them, if left to their own devices?

Yes, of course they do.