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Chickens and eggs
Wednesday, May 25th, 2016 12:02 amInteresting chicken and egg facts:
What does a hen do with unfertilised eggs
How long can fertile chicken eggs keep
such as:
Chickens don't know if eggs are fertile or not.
Some chicken breeds tend to be broody (wanting to sit on eggs) and some don't (it's been bred out of them).
In a natural habitat, a broody chicken will build a nest of eggs over a few weeks, laying about one a day. During this time, it won't sit on them but may hide them. The eggs will remain in "suspended animation". Other chickens may contribute eggs to the nest.
The fertile eggs don't start developing until the chicken starts sitting on them.
It takes 21 days after that for the eggs to hatch - all around the same time.
What does a hen do with unfertilised eggs
How long can fertile chicken eggs keep
such as:
Chickens don't know if eggs are fertile or not.
Some chicken breeds tend to be broody (wanting to sit on eggs) and some don't (it's been bred out of them).
In a natural habitat, a broody chicken will build a nest of eggs over a few weeks, laying about one a day. During this time, it won't sit on them but may hide them. The eggs will remain in "suspended animation". Other chickens may contribute eggs to the nest.
The fertile eggs don't start developing until the chicken starts sitting on them.
It takes 21 days after that for the eggs to hatch - all around the same time.