really hard.
Big enough to do the birthing job in relation to the size of the egg laying chicken.
The hen lays the egg. The term "hen" refers to a female chicken, and it is the female that is responsible for laying eggs.
laying an egg
Most chickens are used for both egg laying and meat. A chicken lays the most year in her first year of egg laying. After two years, she is finished with her job of egg laying and is sent to the grocery store for someone to eat.
No - the chickens do not start laying chicken nuggets after their egg laying days are over.
lol. NO!
There is no way to stop a chicken from laying eggs; It's nature's way.
The actual formation of the egg inside the chicken takes about 24 hours, but when they sit down to lay the egg it can take anywhere from 15 minutes to a couple of hours.
The Dorking Chicken
A normal egg is NOT oily.
There is no mammal that lays chickens. Even chickens do not lay chickens: they lay eggs. there are two types of egg-laying mammals (not chicken-laying), and they are the platypus and the echidna.
If the chicken laying the egg has been fertilised by a rooster then it is possible to get a chick out of the egg if the chicken goes "broody", alas it sits on the egg(s) for days.