Most chicken eggs produced for consumption are unfertilized. Eggs found in the grocery stores are typically produced by chickens that never come in contact with a rooster.
In backyard flocks, however, there is usually a rooster present with the hens and he ensures that the eggs are fertilized by mating the hens regularly. Eggs from hens who have been mated in the past week are fertilized chicken eggs. They can be eaten or incubated and hatched into chicks.
Yes, hens can and do lay unfertilized eggs. In fact, most grocery store eggs come from hens that have not been mated by a rooster and therefore are unfertilized.
Yes, a hen that has not mated with a rooster in the past ten days will lay only unfertilized eggs. A hen that has never been with a rooster will only lay unfertilized eggs.
A rooster must mate a hen for her to lay eggs, and after she is first mated it will still take about a week for her eggs to be fertilized, as it takes about that long for the rooster's sperm to travel to the hen's ovaries where her eggs are fertilized before the shell covers them and before they are laid.
Yes, they do. A hen will not be as prolific as when a rooster is around, but she will still lay.
Yes, if they are not in contact with a rooster.
Yes, hens often lay unfertilized eggs. In fact, all egg laying chickens that have not been mated by a rooster within the past ten days lay only unfertilized eggs.
yes..
no
That is mostly how they are eaten...unfertilized
Remove the eggs. You can replace them with eggs you know are from another bird who was active with a rooster. Your broody hen won't care.
A Leghorn hen.
A hen IS a chicken. The female chicken as opposed to a rooster (male).The answer to your question is A hen chicken is used for laying eggs.
Yes. She believes all the eggs are fertile. Ducks have been known to sit on objects similar to eggs such as golf balls.
Ofcourse not.
a chicken ,dinosaur ,alligator,hen,
There is a hen that lays golden eggsand mention of a golden hen in this version of the story---- There is a hen that lays golden eggs in this version of the story---- There is a hen that lays golden eggs in this version of the story == == === === ---- The three versions of Jack and the beanstalk referred to may be found on the link below Jack and the Beanstalk
Ant larva eat the unfertilized eggs that the mother lays.
That would be a hen that lays eggs, or one that is used for laying eggs as opposed to one raised to be fattened and eaten.
The robin. See the related link for more information.