Female chickens of egg laying age produce eggs continuously until they "go off the lay" due to age, illness, stress or death. Only if mated with, and then not always, will these eggs become fertile.
The yolk, which is called an oocyte, is produced by the hens ovary in a process called ovulation. As the yolk is released into the oviduct it is fertilized by sperm deposited by the rooster up to 10 days prior to the ovulation. Eggs need not be fertilized to be produced so the process of an unfertilized egg is the same. Fertilized or not, that yolk continues down the oviduct and is covered by the vitelline membrane, structural fibers and albumen are all formed around the yolk in the magnus area of the oviduct.
As this forming egg continues its travel down the oviduct, it rotates continually within the spiraling tube (oviduct) and this movement twists the structural fibers forming rope like strands called chalazae. Two of these chalazae anchor the yolk in the very center of the clear albumen.
As this egg gets closer to the end of the oviduct, the egg shell begins forming. Calcite is deposited around the albumen and yolk and in some breeds, bile ducts deposit color, which is why the egg can be white, brown or even green or blue.
Once this is all done, the egg is laid by the hen through the cloaca also known as the vent.
This whole process takes about 24 hours.
nothing... the farmer will pick it up and ship to the grocery cause those are the eggs we eat
Sorry, but the egg will ferment, gasses will develop and it will pop!
The farmer does not pick them up and send them to the store and we eat them. The hens who lay eggs for the grocery store are kept in cages three to four in a cage. It is nasty. They NEVER sit on an egg, when it lays the egg, it rolls out of the cage on to a section of wire that the chickens can not reach. Do not start with cage free... Cage free means ONLY that they are not in a cage. They are not out in the open to eat grasses and bugs and have sunny days. They are often in damp dark dirty buildings... The best eggs are at your local farming area from someones back yard... Also; set a raw egg in a bowl of water. if the egg floats, it is BAD...
also, IF you get eggs from a farm, you can leave out in a basket on the counter,if you do NOT wash them.. IF they are washed they must go in the fridg!
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When a hen lays a fertilized egg, there is no embryo inside. Embryo's only start to form once they are incubated.
The hen LAYS on the egg
Maybe because it's unfertilized? (Durr)
The hen goes first because the hen lays the egg.
the egg gt problem and the chicken forever cannot lay eggs
A hen IS a chicken. The female chicken as opposed to a rooster (male).The answer to your question is A hen chicken is used for laying eggs.
Technically, an unfertilized egg is not alive. Since this question is in regard to chickens...the egg itself will develop normally and will be laid by the hen. The unfertilized egg will begin to rot during incubation whereas a fertilized egg will start to develop into a chick.
A Pheonix hen lays little brown eggs. Mine does.
My bantam hen lays 1 egg everyother day.
21 days
Depends if the egg has been fertilized by the cock, and the temperature of the enviroment.