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

Question

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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Answer 1

It’s their chicken period. Humans do it, geese do it. It’s not unusual. Chickens just do it more often.