I’ve heard chickens can lay eggs every 1-2 days. It baffles me that something so (relatively) big can come out of them so often. How do they produce so many with such limited internal space? How many are developing in them at any given time?
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A long time ago in South East Asia there was a fowl that lived in the jungle. Every few years there would be a big rainfall and the jungle would get very lush and food was plentiful. These birds evolved to lay lots of eggs during this time so they would multiply a lot. After the food was gone, the population would decline again. The humans in the area realized that they could make the birds lay a lot of eggs simply by feeding them a lot of food. This happened thousands of years ago and those jungle fowl were domesticated into modern chickens.
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