I'm trying to raise some chickens, but I'd also like to have some of them lay unfertilized eggs for consumption.
I can't work out a decent way to be able to get some fertilized and some unfertilized eggs. At the moment all the eggs are being fertilized.
Is there any way to achieve this?
My thoughts are maybe when theres a large imbalance of gender ratio (ie a lot of females to only one (lucky) male) that there won't be enough time (;p) for all the eggs to be fertilized. Or perhaps reducing the male's area to a subset of the females area may work? But I'm thinking it may cause very few if any eggs to be fertilized.
Best Answer
The best solution is to have two different areas for your animals. One with males and females, and the other one with only females.
You mentioned having two areas intersect. While that might reduce the number of fertilized eggs, it is more random than separating the animal areas.