Eggs

[jiacinto]

Here is my question. When you buy eggs at the grocery store how is that they aren't with chicks inside? How do they make eggs without chicks?

Or do they purpose cause the chicken to miscarry?

[GOPisEvil]

1. They are unfertilized.

Chickens will lay eggs all the time, but if there is no rooster to fertilize the eggs, no chick will develop.

[jiacinto]

2. Oh

how does the rooster fertilize them?

[GOPisEvil]

5. Chicken sex

:D

[Richardo]

7. Pffffffffffft!! LOL!

</coffee spew>

OK, GOP, you got me back for the "Camptown Races" chicken breast thread the other day...

:D

[GOPisEvil]

8. Hehehehe!

:D

[soothsayer]

3. chickenless eggs are sort of like, um, menstrual cycle stuff

The eggs come out of the chicken whether or not they're fertilized. Same with us chicks---we release eggs monthly, whether they're fertilzed or not. Of course, if ours ARE fertilized we keep 'em inside, as opposed to mrs hen, who will still lay hers but then sit on 'em 'til they hatch.

[jiacinto]

6. How is it fertilized then?

nt

[athos1126]

18. The chickens have to have sex

They've gotta hump to make babies like the rest of us.

[Shrek]

4. The "inside" of the egg is just an embryo

IOW, you're eating it before it has a chance to become a chick.

[Kellanved]

9. here is a FAQ

http://www.angelfire.com/oh/ZebraDirectory/faq.html



The Hens are tricked into laying eggs by excess light. In nature they would only lay like eight or ten eggs a year (fertilized, as Roosters would be around as well).
http://www.gallosuisse.ch/english/huhn_3_e.html

[supernova]

10. History sidebar

When I was little, I remember cracking open an egg in the morning only to find a little embryo starting to develop.

Jaicinto, you've never seen chickens have sex? Man, city people. :shrug:

[bratcatinok]

15. I live in the country

and I've never seen chicken sex.

[smirkymonkey]

20. Try renting a John Waters film...

very interesting.

[supernova]

21. Chickens do it

doggie-style, sometimes the rooster will hold the hen down. Yes, it looks uncomfortable. But, I've often wondered if other animals look at us when we're doing it and think "boy, that's wierd!" So, :shrug:

Unlike us women who either do or don't get pregnant right away, she will hold the semen to form an egg.

[jiacinto]

11. So how are they fertizlied

How does the eg get ferlizied?

[Kellanved]

13. they don't get: they are

The shell/egg is formed after a possible fertilization.

[mitchum]

14. wine, candlelight, soft music...

then the cock mounts the hen

[radwriter0555]

16. Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight, get

down tonight!

With some wild, HOT chicken LOVE baybay!

[athos1126]

19. Lay her down on a soft bed of hay

and crow till morning!

[GumboYaYa]

12. Farm gathered eggs are usually fertilized.

Sometimes you find a surprise when you go to make breakfast.

[dfong63]

17. think about human eggs - in a woman's ovaries -

do you think there's a little baby inside each one?

[Throckmorton]

22. No, but Freepers do.

N/T

[Kamika]

23. i hereby dub this the "priceless" thread

Grats :D