Do you squeeze them gently? This didn't work for me.

I prefer my meat slaughtered for consumption. I don't know why but I'd be squeamish about eating something that died naturally.....
( industrial_bunny, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 16:12, 1 reply)

I think you're supposed to chop their heads off
Oh and I think they need a rooster kicking around before they lay
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 19:05, closed)

Not at all. Hens will lay without a rooster. A rooster will fertilize the eggs, so if you left them they'd hatch into chicks. Without a rooster you don't have to worry about crunching half-formed beaks and feet as you dip your marmite soldiers into the medium-boiled delight.

Not true - it takes a while for the chick to form

You will, though, get fewer eggs in the winter (long nights, short days - chickens are not the brightest of creatures, as I'm sure you'll have noticed), so if you want them to keep going, put a light on a timer in their coop.
(Large Hardon Collider Bah Bloody Humbug, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 21:12, closed)