do chickens always lay eggs?
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Chickens lay one or sometimes more unfertilized or fertilized eggs a day until they have collected a clutch. If you continually collect eggs daily they will continually lay eggs because their goal is to have a clutch. A clutch usually is about a dozen eggs. ... Some hens have been bred to have a very long laying season.
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Laying occurs every 2 or 3 months. Eggs hatch after 11-15 days, but the offspring do not receive any care from the parents. They don't have a defined breeding period, and on average they lay 5-6 clutches of eggs per year, containing on average 200 eggs per clutch if there are the right conditions.
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Most eggs sold commercially in the grocery store are from poultry farms and have not been fertilized. ... Given the right nutrients, hens will lay eggs with or without having been in the presence of a rooster. For an egg to become fertilized, a hen and rooster must mate prior to the formation and laying of the egg.
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No chickens lay colored eggs that are a true purple. Eggs have a protective layer on their outside called “the bloom,” which helps eggs stay fresh and bacteria free. Some hens will lay brown eggs with a heavy bloom that can tint the egg purple. However, when the bloom is washed off, the egg will be brown.
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On average, pullets, or juvenile hens, start laying eggs at about 5 months of age, depending on the breed. Larger, heavier birds like Kuroiler, Kari improved and Rainbow will lay on the later side whereas lighter, smaller breeds like kenbro will start laying sooner.
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After the egg is laid the embryo stays in a kind of suspended animation until the hen sits on it to incubate it. ... These factories rely on the fact that hens lay produce eggs based upon light cycles. So, the eggs that most of us eat do not have embryos.
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D. Many hens lay their first egg around 18 weeks of age and then lay up to an egg each day, subject to breed, environment and individual bird. At 18 weeks, switch to a Purina® complete chicken layer feed to provide the added calcium laying hens need to produce an egg each day.
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Yes. Laying an egg is similar to a mestrual period. Hens (mature female chickens) have a menstrual cycle that can be daily during certain times of the year. Like women, hens have ovaries.
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The birds (now called hens or layers) begin laying eggs between 18 to 20 weeks of age. In a typical flock, egg laying increases until the age of 26 to 28 weeks when more than 90 percent of the hens are laying one egg a day. Their rate of lay will then decline over the next 40 weeks.
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You can free roam a white chicken, and it will still lay white eggs. Just as you can cage a red hen, and she will always lay brown eggs. The difference is the money they charge for the brown eggs. There's plenty of white free range eggs available.
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Although Dorkings are known for meat production, they're a dual-purpose breed. Hens don't start laying until they're 5 or 6 months old, but once they do, they're reliable layers of large, creamy white or lightly tinted eggs, averaging between 150 to 180 eggs per year. They also lay right through the deep winter months.
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« Farm to Table. Eggs come from hens raised specifically to lay eggs, but chickens that are raised for meat are called “broilers.” These chickens are typically white, and are bred specifically for optimal health and size to produce a quality product for the consumer.
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A chicken (called a pullet until she is a year old), begins laying eggs when she is about 18 to 20 weeks old or so. Some types are older. Egg laying is largely dependent on the length of the day, and most hens will stop laying when they receive fewer than 12 hours of daylight.
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The Basics. In theory, the hens that lay eggs labeled "cage-free" are free to walk around the hen house, to perch on roosts, and to lay eggs in nests. This is in great contrast to most laying hens, which are kept in cages so small that they can't fully open their wings, much less walk or move about.
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The Difference Is in the Chicken When it comes to hue of the egg, the key lies in the breed of chicken. In general, white-feathered chickens with white earlobes lay white eggs, and reddish-brown-feathered chickens with red earlobes lay brown eggs.
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Eggs Come in Many Colors The answer is quite simple — egg color depends on the breed of the chicken. For example, White Leghorn chickens lay white-shelled eggs, while Plymouth Rocks and Rhode Island Reds lay brown-shelled eggs ( 1 , 2 ). ... The different eggshell colors come from pigments the hens produce.
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Most eggs that you buy from a local farm are probably fertilized. Chickens lay eggs because that is their cycle. ... In order for an egg to hatch into a chick, it must have been fertilized and either been incubated or had a hen lay on the eggs to grow the embryo from cells to a chick.