Typically, you can expect that a hen will lay 2/3 of an egg a day for 2/3 of the year. That's 2 eggs every 3 days for 8 months; or, around 150 eggs per year. Some breeds have been developed that lay up to 200-225 a year.
120 eggs.
sit on the eggs
your average chicken/hen lays about 260 eggs a year.
3 to 4 at a time
Claret refers to the color of the hen however some use it to refer to a game hen or fighting bird. Game hens are not prolific egg layers but average 120 eggs per year usually medium size or smaller.
The eggs are fertilised inside the hen, and then laid.
The egg, obviously. This is evident because early dinosaurs laid eggs, while MILLIONS of years later, a type of dinosaur evolved into the hen. There also will have been insects and reptiles a long time before the hen evolved, and those laid eggs also. I believe that this is solid proof that the egg came before the hen.
Some hen breeds can produce over 300 eggs per year, with 'the highest authenticated rate of egg laying being 371 eggs in 364 days'[26]". Therefore for an average hen it would be from 250 to 300.
No. Unless there has been a rooster to inseminate the hen, the eggs will not be fertile.
There are no verified records just hearsay and stories. One hen , a black Orpington supposedly laid 361 eggs in 365 days in England. Record has it it was a Ameraucana or what is also called a Araucana that lays the colored eggs layed 364 days straight in a 365 day year.
Yes. The color of feathers makes no difference in number of eggs laid. The breed determines the potential number of eggs per year but good nutrition and general health will often result in far better than average egg production.
The egg came first as the female bird which laid it might not neccessarily have been a hen, the hen which hatched from the egg could have been the result of cross breeding.