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Sometimes they are, bigger breeds like orpington, cochin, australorp, are more prone to breaking their eggs because they are bigger and heavier, whereas breeds like silkie, Japanese bantam, etc, rarely break their eggs. Also, eggs are surprisingly strong and when a hen incubates her eggs she loses the feathers on her abdomen and so the eggs are in contact with her soft skin
What else can I help you with?
What are the condition favourable for incubating egg?
Let a hen handle it.
Alternatives for incubating an egg?
Allow the hen to brood the egg, find a surrogate hen willing to brood, set the egg under another brooding species like a goose or duck.
What does the shell do for an egg?
It protects it from outer bacteria and germs. Its unique shape also helps it from getting crushed by the weight of the hen sitting on it.
Which one is older a 'hen ' or an 'egg'?
A hen is older than an egg. *A hen comes from an egg. Either a hen or an egg can be older than one another.
How do you get hen?
we get a hen in a egg
Does egg come from hen or hen comes from egg?
both
What a hen does for an egg to hatch is called?
The hen LAYS on the egg
What is size of hen egg?
what is the size of the egg layed by hen
Who born first hen or egg?
It could be both if the hen was born first who made the hen (don't say Jesus!) if it was the egg who laid the egg
Who cam first hen or its egg?
The hen goes first because the hen lays the egg.
How the shape of an egg protect the unborn chick?
For example, try to drop an egg on the more 'pointy' end and it shouldn't break the shell. The spherical shape of the egg shell help distribute the weight when the hen is incubating her eggs. It will be more less to be damaged..or cracked
Who came first an egg or a hen?
No one really knows. The egg had to be laid by something (hen), but the hen had to be hatched from something (egg.
