How do farmers control whether a chicken lays an eating egg or a reproductive egg and how can they tell which kind is laid?

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How do farmers control whether a chicken lays an eating egg or a reproductive egg and how can they tell which kind is laid?

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> How do farmers control whether a chicken lays an eating egg or a reproductive egg

You remove any roosters from your farm

> how can they tell which kind is laid?

They’re the same thing. If you get a fertilized egg soon enough (eggs are usually collected in the morning or at night every day) then a chick won’t grow and you can eat it like it was never fertilized at all