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Can a carton egg have a chick inside it?
No. Eggs produced and sold in stores for general consumption are not fertilized and would not contain a forming chick. You could get a fertilized egg from a farmers market stand but hens used to lay eggs for eating are not kept with a rooster.
What is a cockerel bred for eating?
Yes. Best when they are young and the muscles are not well developed Rooster is most used in North America as fryer birds and roasters. Hens are valuable for eggs on most farms and roosters are not so they tend to hit the stew pot or BBQ first.
What are Easter eggs used for?
eating
Will bantams set their eggs?
Most breeds of bantams are excellent setters and can be used to hatch other hens eggs. Often putting a bantam in a cage with a clutch of eggs will "make" her go broody and she will set on the eggs.
What are barn eggs?
Barn eggs are a term used for eggs found outside the regular nesting boxes and often cannot be determined how long ago they were laid by the hen. Some farms allow the hens to "free range" inside the barn on a farm where they are relatively protected from predators and sheltered from inclement weather. Most hens will lay their eggs in nesting boxes but sometime they will lay the egg in any old pile of hay or straw and are often not found for days or weeks after.
Will hens lay eggs without a rooster?
No. A human female equivalent of an egg would be a period ecept hens lay eggs a lot more regularly. If there was a rooster present then the eggs that the hens laid would sometimes contain a foetus
How many eggs do hens lay at a battery hen farm?
On average a battery hen will lay about 250 eggs during her lifetime. Battery hens are often culled at at between 16 to 18 months old and used for meat.
What are the names of the mammals that lay eggs?
No, male roosters (also known as cocks) cannot lay eggs. Only female chickens, known as hens, are able to lay eggs. Roosters are generally larger and more colorful than hens, and they have a characteristic comb and wattle on their head. They are used for breeding and for showing, but they do not have the ability to lay eggs. ChatGPT Dec 15 Version. Free Research Preview. Our goal is to make AI systems more natural and safe to interact with. Your
What happens to the hens that are too old to lay eggs?
On many family farms the hens that are too old to lay eggs are used for food. Hens can lay eggs for years but after the third year most slow down so much that they are worth more to the family farm as food rather than continue feeding them. Hens at the large egg producing companies are sold off as meat birds just after they reach 2 years old. Here at Jadeacres we allow our hens to retire in comfort. We eat chicken, but not our own. Many of our original hens are still with us, even those who have not produced an egg for years.
A term used to describe a hen sitting on her eggs?
The term is Brooding
Artificial eggs to induce hens to lay their own?
"Nest eggs" Used to induce new pullets to lay their eggs in specific places. Often substituted for fertilized eggs under a broody hen so the real eggs can be artificially incubated without causing the brood hen to stop brooding. Golf balls and rocks have been used for this purpose also.
How does hen help us?
Hens eat just about everything. They love greens and seeds, bugs and flies. The eat fruit and vegetables. It is best to feed them a nutritious mix of grain and protein matter called laying mash or laying pellets and that is available from feed stores but they will survive on forage and table scraps.
