Can someone please explain chicken eggs to me? What is the difference between the ones we eat vs the ones that hatch 🐣? Do chickens get pregnant? How do they lay eggs all the time ?

Question

Can someone please explain chicken eggs to me? What is the difference between the ones we eat vs the ones that hatch 🐣? Do chickens get pregnant? How do they lay eggs all the time ?

In: Biology

Answer 1

So, in order for a birth to occur, there must be a male contributing sperm and a female contributing the egg. Same thing as with pretty much all creatures. Chickens, like most birds, have the whole pregnancy thing happen outside of them rather than keeping the egg inside of their body the whole time. Eggs that hatch have a sperm that fertilized them, while eggs that we eat are unfertilized. Even if there is no male, the chicken still lays eggs.