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Do you absolutely need a rooster to have egg-laying chickens for non-breeding purposes?
Chickens will lay eggs regardless, they just won't be viable without the rooster's participation.
Only if you want more chickens. Unless that cock is shooting blanks.
No, but if you have one (or more, but the ratio is roughly 1:5 for rooster:hens) then you can also sell your eggs as fertilizer and make some cash that way as well, while also spreading chickens to others!
Eggs only start to hatch when kept at the right temp and humidity, so they're not anything to worry about by being fertilized if you wanna eat them
My friends had two hens that laid eggs with no rooster. It was great.