Do the eggs we eat from hens contain baby chicks?

Question

This is something I've never been able to work out, please inform me.

Answer 1

I've never seen such a big group of urban legends all in one place!

Female birds will lay eggs even when there is no male bird around. The egg contains all of the ingrediants needed to make a chick, except it will never become a chick if it is unfertile.
The egg is made up of the yolk, which is the food supply intended for the developing chick, and the white (or albumen) which is the water supply.
If there is a male chicken in the same pen as the females, he will mate with them. The females store his sperm inside their bodies and use it to fertilise the yolks. Then the albumen and shell are made around the fertile egg yolk.
Then the egg is laid, and the chick exists as a minute group of cells attatched to the egg yolk by an umbilical cord.
Gradually the chick grows inside the shell and as it does it absorbs the yolk and the white.

If there is no male around the hens will lay one egg each day, but ithose eggs will never develop into a chick. They are sterile.
A fertile egg has a clear white spiral shaped lump attatched to the yolk, like a thick bit of egg white.
The spot of blood you sometimes find on egg yolks is a disease called coccidiosis, and is harmless. You can pick the spot off and cook and eat the egg.

It sometimes happens that a male gets missed and is put in with the females, but he'd be spotted eventually and removed. So you might find the odd fertile egg.
I know someone who cracked an egg into a pan and found a chick, but there's no way it could have got through the system by itself. The eggs are removed every day, they are not kept at the right temperature or humidity that they need to develop, and chicks take several weeks to grow. So if you've ever found one you can thank the wag who works at the factory for putting it there as ajoke.

Answer 2

Baby Chick In Egg

Answer 3

Well that just depends, see if you live on a farm, and you have a rooster with your hen, and she is a sitting hen, (meaning she is sitting on the eggs, then Yes there is going to be baby chics coming out of tthose eggs, but if she is not a sitting hen, and there is no rooster, than no, there is no babies... the eggs you buy at the supermarket are not fertilized(meaning that there was no rooster with the hen, so there is no babies.... white leg horn hens, comet hens, red laying hens, these are your hens that lay 1 egg a day everyday, that you can eat because they are laying hens.... good luck sweetie and god bless

Answer 4

Some of it yes, when it is really breed by a rooster, but if the hen lay eggs without any sexual intercourse by a rooster of-course it doesn't contain chicks, because a hen can also lay eggs due to the feeds even without a rooster.

Answer 5

No, absolutelty not.

The hens which lay on an industrial scale are kept well away from males, and so the eggs we eat are not fertilized, thus meaning they do not contain young.

Don't worry!!

Answer 6

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I am a former chef and a lacto-ovo vegetarian, I eat only egg whites and to your question, NO they are not baby chicks, all laying hens produce like cows with milk, eggs and milk as part of the cycle, any egg with a chick in it would be for breeding purposes for the poultry industry, and the egg with a the chick in you spoke of is a fetal egg or balut, popular in Asia, I saw them in Vietnam and they can be chickens or duck eggs.

Answer 7

Easier - Eggs are special cells found in female animals. Nearly all animals produce eggs. Some animals lay eggs outside their body. For example, birds lay oval, hard-shelled eggs.

Harder - Oology is the study of eggs. Many animals lay eggs in water, on leaves, or in nests. These eggs have a covering that protects the developing creature. Turtles, lizards, birds, fish, reptiles, dinosaurs, insects, and some mammals lay eggs. Inside of an egg shell is a yolk, embryo, albumen (white), and membranes. The contents of the egg is used as food for the developing embryo.

The eggs we eat are not fertilized. In other words, no baby chick is being formed in the egg. What remains are nutrients such as proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals. People have collected and eaten eggs for thousands of years. Most of the eggs people eat now come from domesticated birds such as chickens. Eggs come in different sizes, colors, and grades. People in countries all over the world eat eggs.

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Answer 10

No they don't,

The Chicken eggs that we eat are artificially fertilized (that is a fake male genatic cell is added). So even if a hen sat on it for its whole life it wouldn't hatch.