@Ziltoidia @Mynona @PohlMe I don't understand this thinking, as literally millions of 'roosterless' hens have been couped up in large egg laying housing, and regardless of existence of roosters lay eggs, never change into the opposite sex, and just lay unfertilised eggs. Certainly in the Western world this has been the case for far too long - battery hens, but hens prefer to have small spaces actually, as it turns out, and need tight coups to feel safe to lay in.

Its only misogynistic, patriarchal roosters that claim hens need males around!