Chickens lay eggs, why when you roast a chicken isn't there an egg inside it?

Answer 1

nah, the chicken guts are removed after killing her, eggs included

Answer 2

Hi. Lots of answers to this question.

First, most chickens who are butchered for meat are the ones who have stopped laying eggs. A young chicken will lay a couple eggs a day. As she ages, she'll lay one every few days. Once the chicken is no longer profitable for eggs, she becomes sunday dinner.

Second, a lot of chicken at the store is male. It just doesn't look good to package it as "rooster".

Lastly, and this one has come up a lot in the other answers, the chicken that you buy prepackaged from the market has been cleaned. No feathers, no intestines, no eggs. Only the parts considered edible are left in, such as the gizzard, liver, and heart.

Answer 3

Chickens have to be at least 21 weeks old to start laying.
Most chickens are slaughtered at 6-8 weeks.
Chickens that are too old to lay enough eggs to be economical go to soup factories.
The entrails (guts and so on) are removed before sale anyway.

Answer 4

Usually chickens for roasting are infertile, aren't kept in the same pen/coop/whatever as roosters, and are killed before they get to laying age anyway.

But i wonder what would happen if you put an egg inside a chicken and then roasted it? hahaha :-p

Answer 5

Well, first, the chickens used in egg production are generally not the chickens used in commercial meat production. Second, even a 'roaster' has been gutted so anything except bones and meat would be removed before packaging.

Answer 6

If you have laying birds that you slaughter for meat when you gut them you wil find eggs sometimes whole ones in the shell even and also you will find ones with out shells and you will find many tiny yoks that are the start of the eggs.
We butchered off some old hens this spring and found eggs in many of hte birds.

Answer 7

Because the creature is gutted before you buy it. Inexplicably, sometimes they put the giblets back inside (nicely wrapped up in a plastic bag. Why?) but as far as I know eggs and chickens are always sold separately.

Answer 8

Of course not, they take the insides out. Although if you ever butchered a hen on a farm you might find an egg inside...it does not have a hard shell on it yet - just sort of a covering.

Answer 9

Because they have been gutted. In the small chance that there were any eggs inside it to begin with, the would be removed at the factory.

Answer 10

When I was doing my own chickens, I never found an egg in one of em when I gutted it. I live in the city now and I buy them prefab chickens

Answer 11

Store bought chickens are cleaned thouroughly. Fresh killed chickens may have eggs if they are hens and ovulating. I've killed hens and they had eggs. Very unlikely you will find any from the grocery dead chickens.