Eli5: how can egg hen lay egg EVERY day? Isn’t the processus of making eggs extremely needing in terms of energy?

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An egg weights about 60g in average, and a hen 3kg, how the hen can produce every day something about 2% of it’s weight like this? Which kind of metabolism the hen have to achieve this?

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Inside an egg-laying hen, there are about six eggs in various stages of growth. They have a voracious appetite. I have seen videos of hens going after a mouse that had gotten into the coop. Killed and eaten in a flash.

For hens, get a bug zapper, and every time a fried fly drops, they will eat it immediately.

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