the chicken who have too much coffee in the morning
2006-08-15 22:35:26
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answer #1
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answered by Dave B 5
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The biggest misconception about eggs is that the brown eggs are more nutritious and have more flavour than the white ones. The only difference between the two is that white feathered chickens lay eggs with white shells and brown hens lay brown eggs.
About the only nutrient that eggs are only lacking is Vitamin C and that’s because chickens are able to produce the ascorbic acid they need from their feed. A large egg contains only 75 calories and 5 grams of fat.
Europe has had domesticated hens since 600 B.C.
Chickens came to the New World with Columbus on his second voyage in 1493.
About 280 million laying hens produce some 60 billion eggs each year in the United States.
That’s roughly one hen for every man, women, and child in the country.
An average hen lays 300 to 325 eggs a year.
To produce one egg, it takes a hen 24-26 hours, and to do so, she requires 5 ounces of food and 10 ounces of water. Thirty minutes later she starts all over again.
A mother hen turns over her egg about fifty times per day (so the yolk won’t stick to the sides of the shell.)
Source(s):
Egg Nutrition Center
2006-08-15 23:06:45
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answer #2
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answered by »»» seagull ««« 3
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Good question. Now, let me ask you a question: If you had a baby, what color would it be?...it would be somewhat similiar to ur colour...The same is true in the chicken world. White eggs come from white chickens and brown eggs come from brown-ish chickens. White Leghorn chickens are white and lay white eggs. Rhode Island Red, New Hampshire and Plymouth Rock chickens are all reddish brown and lay brown or brown-speckled eggs.
Here's the weird secret to predicting the color of eggs a chicken will lay: look at their earlobes. This is true stuff. The pigments in the outer layer of the eggshell will always approximate the color of the earlobe of the chicken that laid the egg.
2006-08-15 22:59:52
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answered by Anonymous
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White eggs come from white chickens and brown eggs come from brown-ish chickens. Most of the eggs in your supermarket come from the following breeds of chickens: the White Leghorn, the Rhode Island Red, the New Hampshire, and the Plymouth Rock.
White Leghorn chickens are white and lay white eggs. Rhode Island Red, New Hampshire and Plymouth Rock chickens are all reddish brown and lay brown or brown-speckled eggs.
Let's get weird for a second and pretend you have a chicken sitting beside you. Imagine this crazy chicken is kind of an off-white brownish yellow. You're no chicken expert and you have no idea what breed you're looking at. Here's the secret to predicting the color of eggs a chicken will lay: look at their earlobes. This is true stuff. The pigments in the outer layer of the eggshell will always approximate the color of the earlobe of the chicken that laid the egg.
2006-08-15 22:37:39
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answer #4
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answered by < Roger That > 5
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All our chickens were white and they laid brown eggs. By the way, everybody? Female chickens lay all the eggs.
2006-08-16 10:09:30
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answer #5
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answered by Anonymous
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White chickens lay white eggs, and any chickens who are not white lay brown eggs.
2006-08-16 03:09:46
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answered by Anonymous
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you can put different colors of eggs under the chicken , then you will get the same result after 21 days
2006-08-15 23:03:23
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answered by AboAyman 5
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a brown chicken
2006-08-15 22:33:58
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answer #8
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answered by msknowall 2
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Rhode Island Reds.
2006-08-16 01:02:31
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answer #9
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answered by Anonymous
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All these answers are too fussy for my brain but I do know that the color of the chicken has no bearing oin the color of the egg.
2006-08-15 22:45:14
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answer #10
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answered by JVHawai'i 7
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