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

Question

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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Answer 1

Oh that’s not even all. If you manipulate the day/night cycles with artificial lights, you can get them to lay 8 eggs per 7 days.