How do chickens lay so many eggs?

Question

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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Answer 1

I know an engineer who helped design factory farming conveyor belts. It’s fascinating and depressing. They live on a conveyor belt their whole life. The surface is designed to mimic being outdoors and they manipulate light cycles to trick their bodies into thinking days are much shorter, which leads to increased egg production