2007-01-02 08:07:01 · 8 answers · asked by nat 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
I mean in the wild? What do they do with unfertilised eggs?
2007-01-02 08:15:29 · update #1
Yes, in the wild birds will lay unfertilized eggs. I observed a female Rose-throated Becard at Santa Ana NWR several years ago that built a nest and incubated eggs with no mate. Of course the eggs did not hatch.
2007-01-02 08:32:58 · answer #1 · answered by sngcanary 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, eggs do not have to be fertilized by a male for a female bird to lay an egg. However, in practice most female birds will find a mate unless the species is so sparse and spread over so large a territory that a male cannot be located.
2007-01-02 08:17:11 · answer #2 · answered by Karin C 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
Like humans the eggs get processed either way.
Chickens lay unfertilised eggs all the time - you've probably ate some recently.
Unless there was a chicken foetus in there? No? Thought not.
2007-01-02 08:09:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They will incubate the unfertilized eggs just like they would a real egg. If you find a nest and one egg didn't hatch but the rest did- most likely (but not always) that one was not fertilized.
Hens (any female bird) can lay an egg at any time- they do not need to be fertilized.
2007-01-02 08:27:50 · answer #4 · answered by D 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If there isn't any male, there is not something interior the egg. i does not take the egg faraway from her for awhile, because of the fact some birds will lay yet another as quickly as its taken away - this might reason issues of calcium deficiency.
2016-12-15 07:22:03 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, regular food will make them lay eggs, haha, if you want a little chick though the mama chicken and the egg needs to be seen to by the rooster
2007-01-02 08:10:52 · answer #6 · answered by rand a 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The eggs we eat haven't been fertilized.
2007-01-02 08:11:28 · answer #7 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, battery chickens do it all the time.
2007-01-02 08:08:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋