Does a chicken lay eggs every day, do they need to have sex to lay and egg?

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also if the egg was left in the nest would it become a chicken?

Answer 1

Yes most chickens lay eggs everyday as long as you continue to keep them healthy and take the eggs away daily, if you leave the eggs they will sit on them and stop laying more eggs. They do not need to have sex to lay eggs, but they need to have sex to lay fertilised eggs that will turn into chicks. If a hen(must be a breed that goes "broody" laying hens dont usually sit thier eggs) mates with a rooster, lays fertilised eggs which are then left in the nest and incubated... then yes they will hatch into chicks.

Answer 2

Why Do Chickens Lay Eggs

Answer 3

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Does a chicken lay eggs every day, do they need to have sex to lay and egg?
also if the egg was left in the nest would it become a chicken?

Answer 4

Yes....they can lay eggs every day.
They do not need to have sex to lay an egg.
In order to lay a fertilized egg a hen would need to be inseminated by a rooster.
The semen is stored for a month in the oviduct.....not for the remainder of the hens life.
Also, you can purchase fertilized eggs for consumption. Some people claim they taste better....although they are usually more expensive.
If left in the nest it would only become a chicken if A. It was fertilized and B. It was kept warm by the hen or artificial means for approximately three weeks.

Answer 5

A hen will usually lay about 5 eggs a week. For the eggs to hatch into chicks, they must be fertilized by the rooster. This must happen for each egg (not once in a lifetime). The hen must sit on the egg to keep it warm for three weeks for it to hatch. If she doesn't , it will turn rotten. You may have eaten fertilized eggs and not known it. There is really not much difference in the appearance between fertilized and non-fertilized eggs. After a hen lays an egg, she will cackle to let everyone known of her success. When a hen begins to brood (sit on eggs) she will cluck, letting you know that she is a sitting hen. Hens can lay eggs without a rooster around but the eggs will not hatch without his contribution.

Answer 6

Chickens in commercial egg farms lay an egg a day and most never set eyes on a rooster in their lives. When hens go into a moult (shed their feathers), they usually stop laying eggs. When this happens on a commercial farm, when a hen misses more than a certain number of days, they send her to the meat processor to turn her into soup.

Answer 7

At its peak, chicken lay about 250 eggs per year (about 5 per week). These eggs can be fertilized OR unfertilized. Chicken lay eggs that same way that women ovulate. It just drops on a regular basis. Also like people, if it has a brood, the chicken stops ovulating. In the wild, or if roosters were around, the chicken would mate regularly. Those eggs could be fertilized. And one mating can fertilize multiple eggs.

Answer 8

Hens sometimes lay 2 eggs a day and they lay eggs without them being fertilized by a rooster. A hen sits on fertilized eggs (when she is covered by a rooster) for 21 days for new chicks to be born. Sometimes eggs have 2 yolks.

Answer 9

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Chickens dont need to have sex to lay eggs- they do that naturally. They do need to mate to produce fertile eggs (eggs with baby chickens inside them) but you dont need a rooster if you are only keeping chooks to eat the eggs. Roosters are there to breed with the hens and produce chicks. Couldnt tell you how to take care of them in the winter where it snows- I would assume that they would be kept inside in barns so they dont get too cold.

Answer 10

Hen's keep laying eggs because the 'egg-collectors' keep taking them away!
If no-one took the eggs away, the Hen would stop laying once she had a bunch to sit on.

(I was interrogating my partner about this whole thing just last weekend and that's what I found out)

Eggs will only become chickens if they were FERTILISED.

In the case of eggs we are eating, they wouldn't become chickens because they weren't fertilised, because they are being laid for us to eat and then hen's don't have access to the roosters, to be fertilised.

No, they don't need to have sex to lay an egg.

Hope this makes sense