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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they’ve been bred over time to lay 10x as many eggs as their pre-domesticated ancestors did. it’s like having your period 10x a month. they have loads of associated health issues which can cause iron deficiencies legs breaking etc

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