How/why do chickens lay eggs for humans to eat? How does it work and what is needed?
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They don’t make them for humans. Those eggs we eat are kinda like the eggs women expel when they have their period. Just chickens do it a whole lot more than once a month, their eggs are bigger, and much tastier.
Chickens lay eggs for reproductive reasons, it’s how chickens make babies. We humans take advantage of that as a food source.
You’ll need a chicken … no rooster required unless you want baby chicks to expand the flock.
You’ll need a coop … a dry safe place for the hens to roost (sleep at night). If you have predators in your area you will also need a door on the coop.
Feed ’em! Reap the rewards.
They don’t.
The eggs humans eat are just unfertilised eggs so same as human women pass unfertilised eggs during their period it’s the same principle for hens.
Yeah as others have said it’s not for us, they do it to have babies. In the wild there would be a rooster in the flock so the eggs would be fertile.
Wild chickens – not bred by humans – don’t lay eggs often. Modern farmed chickens only lay every day because they’ve been bred to and it’s very taxing on their bodies. Particularly producing the calcium for shells.
You can’t know if an egg is fertilised or not until you break it. But fundamentally that’s what you’re eating
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