Unlike most birds, why can chickens continuously produce infertile eggs?

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So, I guess(?), duck and quail eggs are available (but people actively breed both and would have eggs….) but I know that turkeys and geese have a breeding season. Also, wild birds only lay fertile eggs in season to reproduce.

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Chickens lay one or sometimes more unfertilized or fertilized eggs a day until they have collected a clutch. If you continually collect eggs daily they will continually lay eggs because their goal is to have a clutch. A clutch usually is about a dozen eggs / why a dozen eggs became a standard. It’s a quirk of nature where humans manipulate the situation. Like how milking cows are always kept pregnant to keep producing milk.

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