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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Reproduction is a weird thing. Most have a schedule for reproductive times. For humans it’s like once a month. Most animals like deer and wolves are fall time. Dogs are every 3-6 months, cats are about twice a year.
Closer to the equator and in areas with a more stable climate there tends to be less pattern as theres not as much of an optimal time for being pregnant.
Chickens are a special case because they are originally from near the equator where there’s minimal seasonal change. But they also came from an area where the bamboo would bloom and seed together. So basically these chickens would have some food and then suddenly too much food. Eventually that became the trigger for their estrus cycle. So basically as long as they’re at a caloric surplus a chicken will always be in heat.
Reproduction is a weird thing. Most have a schedule for reproductive times. For humans it’s like once a month. Most animals like deer and wolves are fall time. Dogs are every 3-6 months, cats are about twice a year.
Closer to the equator and in areas with a more stable climate there tends to be less pattern as theres not as much of an optimal time for being pregnant.
Chickens are a special case because they are originally from near the equator where there’s minimal seasonal change. But they also came from an area where the bamboo would bloom and seed together. So basically these chickens would have some food and then suddenly too much food. Eventually that became the trigger for their estrus cycle. So basically as long as they’re at a caloric surplus a chicken will always be in heat.
Reproduction is a weird thing. Most have a schedule for reproductive times. For humans it’s like once a month. Most animals like deer and wolves are fall time. Dogs are every 3-6 months, cats are about twice a year.
Closer to the equator and in areas with a more stable climate there tends to be less pattern as theres not as much of an optimal time for being pregnant.
Chickens are a special case because they are originally from near the equator where there’s minimal seasonal change. But they also came from an area where the bamboo would bloom and seed together. So basically these chickens would have some food and then suddenly too much food. Eventually that became the trigger for their estrus cycle. So basically as long as they’re at a caloric surplus a chicken will always be in heat.
Selective breeding. They should only lay about 30 a year or something but have been bred to lay daily.
Selective breeding. They should only lay about 30 a year or something but have been bred to lay daily.
Selective breeding. They should only lay about 30 a year or something but have been bred to lay daily.
Up to 86% of eggs come from hens that have broken bones (caused by calcium deficiency as a lot goes into making the shells) and their bodies can’t keep up that pace for long, so they are killed while still pretty young. They are bred and exploited to their biological limits and suffer greatly for it, that’s how.
Edit: Source: https://www.popsci.com/cage-free-chicken-stronger-bones/
Up to 86% of eggs come from hens that have broken bones (caused by calcium deficiency as a lot goes into making the shells) and their bodies can’t keep up that pace for long, so they are killed while still pretty young. They are bred and exploited to their biological limits and suffer greatly for it, that’s how.
Edit: Source: https://www.popsci.com/cage-free-chicken-stronger-bones/
They’re selectively bred to produce way more than their bodies can handle, look into it, it’s absolutely terrible on them, they die from bone problems very often, and chicken farmers are fully aware of this, it’s marked as inconsequential.
about 12x as many as they did before we intervened.
Chickens slaughtered for meat are also the same thing, they’re gorged and bred to grow bigger than their bodies can handle, there are many instances of these chickens not even able to contain their own organs in their bodies or stand up.
[What we do to animals is absolutely horrible.](https://youtu.be/LQRAfJyEsko?t=1864)
Up to 86% of eggs come from hens that have broken bones (caused by calcium deficiency as a lot goes into making the shells) and their bodies can’t keep up that pace for long, so they are killed while still pretty young. They are bred and exploited to their biological limits and suffer greatly for it, that’s how.
Edit: Source: https://www.popsci.com/cage-free-chicken-stronger-bones/
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