Ok, I get that chickens don't have a chick with every egg, but how does a chicken get the egg ferilized by the chicken? I don't get the process.
2007-08-05 13:31:31 · 4 answers · asked by tammy p 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
The hen gets the egg fertilized the same way mammals do. By a rooster. The rooster and the hen have their little rendezvous before the egg starts to form so the sperm from the rooster is already in the egg when it develops a shell.
2007-08-05 13:36:54 · answer #1 · answered by Joan H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the hens are kept apart from the roosters, their eggs don't get fertilized. If you put the roosters in with the hens... well, it works a lot like with humans, only instead of carrying a baby for 9 months, the hen lays an egg.
2007-08-05 14:49:05 · answer #2 · answered by Ambivalence 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Birds, like humans, reproduce sexually (sexual reproduction ONLY means two cells ... an ovum or egg cell and a sperm cell) and go through internal fertilization via sexual intercourse (or coitus). The egg shell forms after the female chicken's ovum is internally fertilized by the rooster's sperm.
If there is no fertilization, the chicken still produces eggs with shells and we get to harvest and eat the eggs.
2007-08-05 14:27:11 · answer #3 · answered by academicjoq 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The rooster can fertilize the embryo before the hen lays the egg.
2007-08-05 13:35:54 · answer #4 · answered by bluecuriosity 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋